Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to discover the cause of autism by September, saying the “autism epidemic is running rampant.” While cases are on the rise ...

The topic was what he described as an “alarming ... epidemic” of autism, supposedly documented by a new report by the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network of the Centers ...

“Autism is not one condition,” said Geraldine Dawson, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University and founding director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development. “It ...