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Breaking down RFK Jr.'s alleged 'autism registry' tracking Americans with the condition
The National Institutes of Health director said they were launching an autism registry — but a Health and Human Services ...
JB Pritzker signs order to fight RFK Jr.’s data collection on autism
The Illinois governor denounced the health secretary’s autism registry as creating “fear of surveillance or discrimination.” ...
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RFK Jr. says autism database will use Medicare and Medicaid info
The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans ...
‘Dangerous,’ ‘anti-science’, ‘dehumanizing’: CT families, officials and experts push back on RFK autism claims, registry
Autism advocates, scientists and senators called Kennedy’s assertions unscientific and alarming, with many in the autism ...
VERIFY: What we know about RFK Jr.'s 'autism registry' plan
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered a round of studies to identify the cause of autism, but ...
Privacy concerns swirl around HHS plan to build Medicare, Medicaid database on autism
The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to ...
Why many people with autism fear RFK Jr.’s focus on the condition
RFK Jr’s focus on autism sparks fear among autistic people, who say they are being dehumanized and seen as not valued members ...
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RFK’s comments on autism stir passions
In the second hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on May 2, 2025, we speak with local autism awareness advocates about ...
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The Shomer: RFK Jr.’s Autism Registry Evokes Nazi Child ‘Euthanasia’ Program
Though Kristallnacht happened on Nov. 9, 1938—marking the first large-scale pogrom against Jews under Nazi rule in ...
Canceled appointments, pleas to shred records: Talks of autism registry put families on edge
Researchers, clinicians and disability rights advocates are dismayed by RFK Jr.'s new autism study. Many view it as a big ...
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Trump watch: Planned Parenthood sues Trump, autism registry sparks fear, RFK Jr calls for vitamin combination treatments, and more
Five Planned Parenthood affiliates have sued Donald Trump’s administration over new restrictions tied to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention programme of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).1 ...