In the telling of President Trump and his Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., autism in the U.S. has exploded in the past decades with seemingly no explanation. These claims ...

The creation of Tylenol as a brand name for the drug acetaminophen dates to 1955. Acetaminophen itself was first prepared in 1878, but it didn't receive widespread use until Tylenol's creation. The ...

Scientists have long tried to pinpoint the exact causes of autism. Researchers from NYU Langone Health explored maternal illness during pregnancy. rh2010 - stock.adobe.com Senior study author ...

1911 › Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coins the word autism to describe a tendency among some schizophrenics to wall off reality in favor of an inner fantasy life. 1944 › Johns Hopkins psychiatrist ...

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In a recent study published in the journal Autism Research, a group of researchers examined the association between family history of neurodevelopmental (NDD) and neuropsychiatric (NPD) disorders and ...

FRANKENMUTH, MI — A new autism history museum with a sensory-friendly birthday party room is opening soon in Michigan’s “Little Bavaria.” Xavier DeGroat, CEO of the Xavier DeGroat Autism Foundation, ...

The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been a vocal skeptic of vaccination for years. In a Fox News editorial regarding the measles outbreak in West Texas, he did write ...