US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new autism study has sparked controversy, alarming the medical community due to his history of promoting debunked vaccine-autism links. Experts and ...

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy previously claimed the autism project would find all the causes of autism by September. He recently walked that back ...

Kennedy Jr.'s new autism study. NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told advisers the aim is to help researchers study autism by giving them access to "comprehensive" health records. These records ...

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement of a vast study to reveal the cause of a so-called autism "epidemic" has alarmed medical experts, who fear it could rekindle thoroughly ...

Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference at the Department of Health and Human Services, April 16, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong/Getty Images A study of this magnitude would need to be ...

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Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the Department of Health ... Those causes begin with genetics. One 2020 study conducted by Harvard’s and MIT’s jointly run Broad Institute found 102 genes associated ...