No autism registry, real-time data platform to be created, HHS says

On April 16, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. provoked backlashes in his country when he said autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) can be prevented, and promised to find the ‘environmental toxin’ behind the rising rates of what he called an ‘epidemia’ in the country.

Spectrum of awareness: Dangerous retrenchment threatens progress in understanding of autism

On April 16, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said autistic kids will never pay taxes, hold a job, write a poem, go out on a date or use a toilet unassisted.

Health and Human Services denies it will create autism registry

A ‘real-world data platform will link existing datasets to support research into causes of autism and insights into improved treatment strategies,’ one HHS official told The Independent

Health agencies “not creating an autism registry,” official says

A Department of Health and Human Services official said Friday that the health department is not creating an autism registry, contradicting an announcement made days ago by the director of the National Institutes of Health describing his plans to study causes of autism.  “We are not creating an autism registry. The real-world data platform will link existing datasets to support research into causes of autism and insights into improved treatment …

HHS Says Federal Government Not Creating Autism Registry

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on April 25 it is not creating a registry for autism, after some advocates raised concerns about what the National Institutes of Health (NIH) director had described as a new autism registry. “We are not creating an autism registry,” an HHS official told The Epoch Times in an email. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the NIH, told a meeting on Monday that NIH’s real-world data platform, drawin…

Health agencies "not creating an autism registry," official says, contradicting NIH director

"We are not creating an autism registry," a Department of Health and Human Services official said in a statement.