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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SELF spoke with researchers, clinicians, and advocates to understand the uptick in diagnoses of autism in adult women—plus, what ...

Autism has long been thought of as a condition that mostly affects boys, but a massive study from Sweden suggests that idea may be misleading. Tracking nearly 3 million people over decades, ...

By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D. Large-scale Swedish data reveal a female “catch-up” effect in autism diagnoses, reshaping ...

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

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

A new study suggests autism diagnosis rates are "more or less equal for men and women," significantly challenging long-held ...

An 11-year-old girl with autism was rescued from the edge of an icy creek in Cincinnati, thanks to the swift actions of first responders, underscoring the dangers water poses to children with autism ...

The rise in autism diagnoses has been steady and striking. In the 1960s, roughly 1 in 10,000 people was diagnosed with autism. Today, 1 in 54 children has the condition, according to the Centers for ...

One of the largest autism trials of leucovorin (Wellcovorin), a drug used to treat cerebral folate deficiency, was retracted ...