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No new autism registry, HHS says, walking back NIH director’s claim
The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.
U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent
Administration health officials walked back a plan to register people with autism after criticism from scientists, privacy ...
Will there be an autism registry? What we know after NIH drops plans for vast data platform
An autism science group called out "red flags" this week after the National Institutes of Health appeared to share plans for ...
National Institutes of Health to launch study, create autism patient database
National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya said the study would address the “cause of the rise in autism” that ...
NIH scraping data from private health records for autism study
The federal government plans to scrape data from a slew of private health-related records for its autism study, ranging from ...
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Proposal to Create Federal Autism Registry Stokes Fear in Disability Advocates
National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya sent shockwaves through the autism community by announcing the ...
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RFK Jr.’s statements about autism and environmental toxins conflict with ample research
Autism experts say the neurological conditon’s definition and diagnosis have changed over the years, and autism awareness and ...