The Illinois governor denounced the health secretary’s autism registry as creating “fear of surveillance or discrimination.” ...

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

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are partnering to develop a ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday that two major federal agencies within ...

The new platform will first focus on research around the root causes of autism. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Pritzker said the order was necessary in response to concerns about the creation of a federal autism registry or database without legal protections.

Federal health officials didn’t provide information about how people’s private medical data will be collected and managed.

Researchers have already used Medicaid and Medicare claims data for a long time, said Eric Rubenstein, an autism researcher at Boston University. The data is ideal for studying health disparities and ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Wednesday that the HHS will create a database of autism patients enrolled in Medicare and ...