Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order in response to federal efforts to create a database for autism research.

The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to ...

The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, ...

Roughly 36 percent of Americans are enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid, meaning their sensitive data could be targeted.

The head of a local program focused on treating patients with autism spectrum disorder said last week that he hopes plans for ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed a first-in-the-nation executive order to block the federal ...

The Department of Health and Senior Services on Wednesday introduced a pilot program to collect information about autism. The ...

The order was in response to a move by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services earlier Wednesday to research and ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s plan to create a national autism database was met with doubt online as users questioned if those ...

Kennedy on Wednesday announced the National Institutes of Health would create a new database "to uncover the root causes of ...

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The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans ...