Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order in response to federal efforts to create a database for autism research.

Health and Human Services says an autism registry is meant to help find a cause, but some parents in the Cumberland County ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed a first-in-the-nation executive order to block the federal government from collecting personal health data related to autism, a direct rebuke ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to develop a platform using Medicare and Medicaid records to investigate the causes of autism.

The head of a local program focused on treating patients with autism spectrum disorder said last week that he hopes plans for ...

Without Medicaid, Maribeth Watson's daughter, born prematurely, may not have survived. Now Congress may cut the programs that ...

Twenty-one agency leaders, health industry professionals, disability advocates and others will look to contain Medicaid ...

For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promise for “pulling back the curtain” to find autism’s causes in a few months is jarring — and unrealistic.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s promise for “pulling back the curtain” to find ...

The order was in response to a move by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services earlier Wednesday to research and ...