Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order last week prohibiting state agencies from sharing autism-related data outside the ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order in response to federal efforts to create a database for autism research.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to develop a platform using Medicare and Medicaid records to ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed a first-in-the-nation executive order to block the federal government from collecting personal health data related to autism, a direct rebuke ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to develop a platform using Medicare and Medicaid records to investigate the causes of autism.

The head of a local program focused on treating patients with autism spectrum disorder said last week that he hopes plans for ...

Without Medicaid, Maribeth Watson's daughter, born prematurely, may not have survived. Now Congress may cut the programs that ...

Twenty-one agency leaders, health industry professionals, disability advocates and others will look to contain Medicaid ...

For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promise for “pulling back the curtain” to find autism’s causes in a few months is jarring — and unrealistic.

Speaking at a news conference in Washington, D.C., last month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.