An autism center operated by a longtime friend of Minnesota Democratic Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan is under major state investigation. The friend appeared alongside Flanagan in a viral video where Flanagan wore a hijab.
President Trump announced his administration will pressure pharmaceutical companies to break up certain childhood immunizations into five separate doses, based on the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism. Health experts say the approach won't work.
Stanford researchers genetically engineered mice without cortex or hippocampus and successfully replaced those regions with human brain organoids, creating a new platform for studying neuropsychiatric diseases including frontotemporal dementia and autism.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a new federal initiative to improve autism diagnoses using AI and other technology to map how the condition develops and enable earlier intervention, arguing the current diagnostic model is outdated and too time-intensive.
A new survey found that the CDC's recent changes to messaging suggesting a possible link between vaccines and autism can undermine public trust in vaccines and science, despite scientific consensus showing no such link exists.
