President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions ...

Skyrocketing rates of autism have led some to implicate childhood vaccines, though research has consistently cleared the shots.

About 1 in 36 children born in 2012 is estimated to have an autism spectrum disorder, up from 1 in 150 born in 1992, according to the CDC. The lack of an explanation for these skyrocketing ...

A Kenyan couple attesting to the impact of autism condition took the initiative to bring awareness and support to families ...

“Most of the increase in recent decades is in relatively mildly affected children and adults, so maybe in the past we wouldn’t have called it autism,” explained Maureen Durkin, professor of ...

A prominent pediatrician recalled that trying to explain the science behind autism to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was "an exercise ...