U.S. Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has expressed views on the causes of autism that clash with scientific evidence. With statements like "genes don't cause an epidemic," he emphasizes ...

A recent study published in Psychological Reports suggests that a state’s socioeconomic status and its levels of air ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s statements at a news conference Wednesday contradicted decades of autism research, which has generally not ...

A new statistical framework developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Kaiser Permanente Northern California ...

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the agency will launch a series of new studies aimed at finding the "environmental toxins" he believes are causing increasing ...

Researchers analyzed data from all fifty U.S. states to determine which social and environmental factors best predicted adult ...

WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that children in the U.S. are being diagnosed with autism at an “alarming rate,” promising on Wednesday to conduct exhaustive studies to ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday that his department would examine six “environmental factors” that he said could lead to autism amid a rise in confirmed cases ...

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