Each year, more than 120,000 young people with autism turn 18 and "age out" of pediatric medicine into an adult system that ...

As a young medical student in 1975, I walked into a basement lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, ...

The Wisconsin lawmaker has been a supporter of Pierre Kory, a controversial physician who advocated for a "wonder drug" ...

Diagnosis rates are rising because the NHS pathway is overwhelmed and fragmented, not because distress is being exaggerated.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told the Globe that he wants "scientists at every institution to be able to compete on the same level ...

Those who tend to people with special needs, such as autism and Down syndrome, are struggling along with their vulnerable charges during the Covid-19 crisis. The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the ...

After heated disagreements, the committee members, appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., delayed the vote ...

F rom the outside, autism can be difficult to understand. The unique sensory world of an autistic person can mean that a ...

Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima on Wednesday filed a measure that proposed the establishment of a national comprehensive program for the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of autism ...

Kristen Lyall, ScD, an associate professor, and Diana Schendel, PhD, a professor, both in the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute at the Dornsife School of Public Health, were quoted in an Oct. 3 STAT ...

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 ...

Caroline Connor's concerns about her son Mason's development began around his first birthday, when she noticed he wasn't talking or using any words. Their pediatrician didn't seem worried, but the ...