An HHS official told USA TODAY that the department is not creating an autism registry, but is pursuing the real-world data ...

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.

Administration health officials walked back a plan to register people with autism after criticism from scientists, privacy ...

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

The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya sent shockwaves through the autism community by announcing the ...

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

In a Monday council meeting, the head of the National Institute of Health said they are creating a new National Disease ...

Some in Utah are concerned about privacy after Jay Bhattacharya, the Director of the National Institutes of Health, proposed ...

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

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