Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said in a Senate hearing Tuesday that he has not seen any studies supporting the theory that any vaccines cause autism, a break ...

The new panel, which advises the government on research and service priorities for people with autism, includes many members who have argued that vaccines cause the disorder. By Azeen Ghorayshi Health ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Adults can use self-screening autism tests before seeing a healthcare professional. A healthcare professional must provide a formal autism diagnosis based on specific criteria. Autism is diagnosed ...

Autism masking involves consciously or unconsciously suppressing natural autistic traits, often to avoid stigma or fit in socially. While masking may provide short-term benefits in certain social ...

Private equity firms acquired over 500 autism therapy centers in 42 states from 2015 to 2024. Nearly 80% of these acquisitions happened between 2018 and 2022, coinciding with rising autism prevalence ...

For many years, autism has been identified as a spectrum with differing levels of ability. New research suggests that the age when symptoms first appear may help anticipate the specific traits, ...

Stimming helps people with autism regulate their emotions and behavior. Stimming includes auditory, tactile, visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive actions. Stimming also occurs in people with ADHD ...

Myths about autism abound. Here, experts explain what’s fact and what’s fiction when it comes to the condition. Plus, what it means to be neurodivergent in this way. Myth 1: Autism is a mental ...

Decades of research into autism has revealed this much: There is no simple answer for what causes the condition. In each person with autism, genes and their environment combined in a unique way, ...

Contains music by Marion Lozano Pat McCusker Dan Powell and Diane Wong Engineered by Chris Wood Featuring Azeen Ghorayshi Once primarily limited to severely disabled people, autism began to be viewed ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website with a new stance on the potential link between vaccines and autism. The new wording on the CDC’s site now states, "The claim ...