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Why autism researchers aren’t convinced NIH can keep science and politics separate
A new $50 million NIH initiative to find the causes of autism faces questions about transparency and independence.
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Health agencies "not creating an autism registry," official says, contradicting NIH director
contradicting an announcement made days ago by the director of the National Institutes of Health describing his plans to study causes of autism. "We are not creating an autism registry.
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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 an autism registry in a meeting on April 21. Now, the U.S. Department ...
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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 ... the causes of autism spectrum disorder and improve treatments. The announcement arrives two days after National Institutes of ...
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Breaking down RFK Jr.'s alleged 'autism registry' tracking Americans with the condition
Editor's note: This story was updated on May 7, 2025, to reflect that the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a partnership on that day ...
The Baltimore Sun1mon
National Institutes of Health to launch study, create autism patient database
National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya has announced he will launch a study on autism commissioned by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The ...
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RFK Jr. Launches National Autism Registry to Track Cases Across U.S.
Kennedy Jr. has launched a new nationwide autism registry, one of the most ... The program, quietly backed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), involves pulling private health records ...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Launch National Autism Registry Using Americans’ Private Health Records
On April 21, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya — director of the National Institutes of Health ... debunked claim that autism is caused by vaccines — is also launching a new registry to track Americans ...
CBS News1mon
RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans
The National Institutes of Health ... and commercial databases to give to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new effort to study autism, the NIH's top official said ...
Vanity Fair1mon
With NIH Plans for an Autism Registry, RFK Jr.’s Public Health Takeover Grows More Alarming
Earlier this week, CBS News reports, the director of the National Institutes ... into autism’s origins, which Kennedy, who oversees NIH as secretary of the Department of Health and Human ...
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Parents, professionals express concerns about proposed national 'Autism Registry'
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — WPTV is diving into the proposed creation by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, for a national registry dedicated to individuals on ...