A 9-year-old Dinwiddie County boy with autism is helping first responders better assist children on the autism spectrum who go missing or experience trauma.

Most new cases reflect mild or no significant impairment. Moderate and severe cases have declined. Adam Omary is a ...

Autism has historically been viewed as a condition that affects men and boys more frequently than women and girls. But a ...

Scientists analyzed MRI data from people aged eight to 100 years and found that in early childhood, differences in brain connectivity patterns between men and women are minimal, but they increase ...

A Swedish study of 2.7 million people reveals autism affects boys and girls equally, but girls typically receive diagnoses 5 ...

Women have the same rates of autism as men – but get diagnosed less - A new study on autism prevalence in both genders suggests that ‘clinical biases contribute to under-recognition of women and girls ...

One of the largest autism trials of leucovorin (Wellcovorin), a drug used to treat cerebral folate deficiency, was retracted ...

By early adulthood, almost equal numbers of males and females are diagnosed with autism, found a new study published in the BMJ. | Neuroscience ...

Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and ...

Over more than 35 years of follow-up, 78,522 people were diagnosed with autism. This represented 2.8% of the study population ...

New research suggests that exposure to intense wildfire smoke during pregnancy may be associated with an increased likelihood ...

The autism epidemic is running rampant,” said U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “One in 31 American chil ...