The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.

The NIH study will seek to identify what external environmental factors could be helping to drive rising autism rates.

NIH Director Dr Jay Bhattacharya announced plans for centralizing and expanding the NIH's access to patient data.

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said "it's hard to guarantee when science will make an advance." ...

The CEO of the Autism Society of America said his organization has “deep concerns” about NIH collecting personal health data.

The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the ...

To assist him in his quest to determine the cause - or causes - of autism by September, Health and Human Services Secretary ...

The federal government plans to scrape data from a slew of private health-related records for its autism study, ranging from ...

The National Institute of Health is moving forward with a plan endorsed by RFK Jr. to create what critics are calling an ...

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya said the study would address the “cause of the rise in autism” that ...

WASHINGTON -- Private medical data for millions of Americans is being collected by the government as part of ongoing efforts ...

U.S. health officials say they'll urge foodmakers to phase out petroleum-based artificial colors in the nation’s food supply.