President Trump is promising a new treatment for autism spectrum disorder: a prescription form of vitamin B9 called leucovorin. But many scientists and medical organizations are skeptical; some ...
The annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research is the closest autism science gets to having an Oscars moment of its own. When 2,200 experts from more than 50 countries meet up in ...
Since 2013, when the DSM-5 collapsed five autism subtypes into the single diagnosis of "autism spectrum disorder (ASD)," we've treated autism like a monolith. Maybe that made sense when our tools were ...
On 16 April, Robert F. Kennedy Jr held a press conference about rising diagnoses of autism. The US Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary pointed to new data showing that autism prevalence in the ...
WASHINGTON (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 potential ...
The autism advocacy community is split over whether adding a profound autism subtype will help the most vulnerable autistic people. Since 2013 autism diagnoses have been classified under one large ...
The Trump administration has suggested that leucovorin, a drug used in cancer treatment, might have some benefit for children with autism. Many researchers and families aren't so sure. (Andrew Harnik ...
"I think that this entire thing has been a bit misleading," says Caitee Donovan, referring to a White House press conference Monday in which Trump and his deputies blamed Tylenol for autism and ...