Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released a report on the country’s federal labor, health, human services, and ...

Staff at the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment are concerned about plans to create a registry of Americans with ...

The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists, according to a report released ...

Key Takeaways Under fire, federal health officials say they will not create a new autism registry Research will use existing, de-identified health data $50 million will be used to fund autism and ...

Worry about the direction of federal health policies was the first reaction, but staff is now more concerned about families.

Support for Aspen Public Radio critical amid federal cuts The staff at Aspen Public Radio would like to thank everyone who ...

As a family physician, one of my priorities is protecting the privacy of my patients. Medical confidentiality is protected ...

As a family physician, one of my priorities is protecting the privacy of my patients. Medical confidentiality is protected under a regulation known as HIPAA. This rule covers the way in which ...

An influential U.S. medical journal is rejecting a call from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a large Danish ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. caused controversy in April by promising to find the cause for autism by September. Claims by the new US secretary for health and human services that autism is a ...

Standing before the Michigan State Capitol on Tuesday, a group of disability self-advocates took Congress to task over cuts to Medicaid and SNAP benefits included in the Republican tax and spending ...

Bird flu, for the moment, appears to be under control. But experts have a warning for federal and state health officials.