WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said at the White House on Monday that his administration has concluded that pregnant people's use of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, is ...

Thinking about autism has evolved. Just three decades ago, autism was a relatively rare and clearly defined condition, diagnosed in people with limited verbal language and highly repetitive behavior.

Autism history is not only about a diagnosis. It is about a deeper and more difficult problem: how societies decide what counts as “normal.” A consistent pattern emerges across scientific, educational ...

A wider public conversation has arisen over whether it's time for a shift in how we think about categories of autism, amid rising interest in the disorder across the country. For instance, some op-eds ...

When Marc and Cristina Easton’s son was diagnosed with autism at 20 months, the Baltimore couple left the doctor’s appointment in confusion. Their toddler - who was very social - didn’t resemble the ...

When most people hear the word “burnout,” they think of long hours at the office, unanswered emails piling up, and the eventual need for a vacation. Workplace burnout has been absorbed into the ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has spent years spreading doubt about the safety of vaccines and linking them to autism. Dozens of studies have debunked the theory, but ...

When people hear the word autism, it’s often associated with a specific set of traits. But in reality, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is just that—a spectrum, encompassing a broad range of differences ...

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It’s been more than three years since the Lancet Commission proposed the new term “profound autism” to describe the subset of the autism spectrum most disabled by the disorder. This label has been ...