An autism researcher accused of absconding with more than a $1 million in CDC grants and using the money for personal gain ...

A Danish researcher was arraigned Friday in Atlanta on federal charges after being extradited from Germany to face justice ...

A five-year update on conflicts of interest in ABA autism research finds that most studies are still authored by financially ...

A STUDY claims to have identified three maternal jobs that could raise the risk of a child’s autism. Published today in the ...

Researchers analyzed data from Denmark covering 1,702 children diagnosed with autism and born between 1973 and 2012. Those ...

Autism research bias: A 2026 study found 93% of conflict-of-interest disclosures in ABA autism research were false, with most studies authored by researchers financially tied to ABA services. Trauma ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data this week showing that 1 in 31 children in the U.S. is autistic. As researchers and physicians, we welcome the growing national ...

Joseph Buxbaum was initially unconvinced. When early hints of a connection between autism and Alzheimer’s began to appear in the medical literature a few years ago, they struck him as implausible — ...

Thinking about autism has evolved. Just three decades ago, autism was a relatively rare and clearly defined condition, ...

Dr. TC Waisman (left) and Patrick Dwyer (right) are two autistic researchers studying autism. Courtesy of Dr. TC Waisman and Patrick Dwyer For many decades, autistic people have been defined by ...

A new survey reveals a striking disconnect in how Americans think about autism research. While nearly everyone agrees that studying the autistic brain is essential, most people are unaware that brain ...