A new review of studies has found that taking Tylenol during pregnancy doesn’t increase the risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disabilities – adding to the growing body of research refuting claims ...

Backers claim the tests can predict a child’s risk of autism using a strand of hair or a mother’s blood, but critics say they are not ready for the market. A lab test used to determine the presence of ...

Summary: This study examines human perception of visual social events to determine how individuals are able to rapidly and successfully recognize people's emotions, goals, actions, and social ...

Decades of research into autism has revealed this much: There is no simple answer for what causes the condition. In each person with autism, genes and their environment combined in a unique way, ...

It is hard to keep track of how many times the CDC has revised its language, its guidance, or its sense of what counts as evidence in the autism world. And maybe “hard to keep track” is the point.

Amid a flurry of recent autism announcements — including some that have raised questions — the Trump administration is investing $50 million into research that experts say is a step in the right ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Autism diagnosed in early childhood differs genetically and developmentally from autism identified later in an individual’s development, challenging the notion that it is a single, uniform disorder, ...

The US National Institutes of Health launched the Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI), a research effort that will provide $50 million in funding for 13 research projects studying how interactions ...

Many scientists were pleased to learn that N.I.H. funding will go to leading experts examining complex new theories, not only fears over vaccines. By Benjamin Mueller In late May, when the Trump ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. National Institutes of Health granted $50 million this week to fund 13 autism research projects that scientists and advocates say stand out for their rigor and ...