Adam Omary is a psychologist and research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. For years, public health debate has often fixated on a supposed rise in the ...

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 ...

“On the spectrum.” These three words have become synonymous with autism, yet behind them lies a common misunderstanding. The idea of “the spectrum” suggests that all autistic people share similar ...

Mild autism is unofficially used to describe level 1 autism, or high-functioning autism. People with mild autism might not get diagnosed until adolescence or adulthood because their traits are subtle.

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 ...

Share on Pinterest Human brain cell evolution may be linked to autism, neurodiversity, according to a new study. Image credit: Lauren Lee/Stocksy A new study concludes that the speed at which the ...

The Trump administration's take on Tylenol and autism has led to confusion. It has put doctors who treat people who are pregnant or families with young children on the front lines of helping patients ...

The Trump administration is hailing a medication called leucovorin for reducing some autism symptoms, but experts who research or treat autism almost uniformly agree the medication should be studied ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House announcement about autism is expected Monday afternoon after President Donald Trump's weekend comment that "I think we found an answer" to the developmental disorder.

As President Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. prepared to announce that they believe the use of acetaminophen — the active ingredient in Tylenol — by pregnant women may be linked to ...

For nearly 65 years, Bethesda-based Coakley & Williams Construction, or CWC, has provided general contracting services throughout the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia area. But what started in ...

Soon after psychiatrist Leo Kanner first identified autism in the 1940s, he and his colleagues proposed a simple explanation for its cause: mothers’ “lack of genuine warmth” toward their children.