The National Institutes of Health director said they were launching an autism registry — but a Health and Human Services ...

An HHS official told USA TODAY that the department is not creating an autism registry, but is pursuing the real-world data ...

"We are not creating an autism registry," a Department of Health and Human Services official said in a statement.

The NIH study will seek to identify what external environmental factors could be helping to drive rising autism rates.

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said "it's hard to guarantee when science will make an advance." ...

Kennedy Jr.’s controversial plan to discover a cause and a cure for autism. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya told a panel of ...

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told advisers on Monday that the agency would create a central platform of patient records ...

The federal government plans to scrape data from a slew of private health-related records for its autism study, ranging from ...

said NIH would be creating a new "national disease registry," including for autism, as an apparent part of Kennedy's plans to study the "environmental factors" of autism. But following Bhattacharya's ...

The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.

On April 22, 2025, CBS News reported that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to launch a "disease registry" to track Americans with autism as part of U.S. Department of Health and Human ...