Tag: autism
NIH Funds New Autism Studies on Genes and Environment as Trump Focuses on Tylenol
NIH Funds New Autism Studies on Genes and Environment as Trump Focuses on Tylenol The National Institutes of Health is investing $50 million into research on genetic and environmental factors underlying autism—news that was eclipsed by President Donald Trump’s recent controversial claims about acetaminophen By Helen Pearson & Nature magazine Confocal light micrograph of a…
What Is Leucovorin, the Unproven Autism Drug Backed by Trump Officials?
Trump Team Backs Unproven Autism Drug, Sparking Scientific Concern The Trump administration is backing leucovorin as a treatment for autism, despite limited evidence. Some doctors and researchers are concerned By Heidi Ledford & Nature magazine Globes of folinic acid, also called leucovorin, which Trump team officials have promoted as an intervention for autism. According to…
Does Tylenol Use during Pregnancy Cause Autism? What the Research Shows
Does Tylenol Use during Pregnancy Cause Autism? What the Research Shows Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. plan to tie Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiencies to rising autism rates—but the evidence is thin By Allison Parshall edited by Tanya Lewis The Trump administration today plans to link rising rates of autism spectrum disorder…
Autism Has No Single Cause, Research Shows
Autism Has No Single Cause. Here’s How We Know Scientists will not find a simple answer to how autism arises, despite Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s promise to announce its causes sometime this month. Here’s what makes the condition so staggeringly complex By Allison Parshall edited by Dean Visser Soon after psychiatrist Leo Kanner first identified…
RFK, Jr. Is Completely Wrong about Autism, Say Scientists and Parents
What RFK, Jr. Got Wrong about Autism, according to Scientists A coalition of autism scientists has formed to counter RFK, Jr.’s misrepresentations of science and of autism spectrum disorder By Allison Parshall Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference at the Department of Health and Human Services…
The Real Reason Autism Rates Are Rising
RFK, Jr., Is Wrong about Cause of Rising Autism Rates, Scientists Say Autism rates are rising, but RFK, Jr., is wrong about the reasons. Here’s what the science says By Stephanie Pappas edited by Jeanna Bryner Research suggests that autism is between 60 and 90 percent heritable. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., head of the Department…
Brittany Cartwright Reacts to RFK Jr.’s Autism Comments
Vanderpump Rules alum Brittany Cartwright shared her thoughts on RFK Jr.’s remarks about autism a week after revealing her and ex Jax Taylor’s son Cruz, 3, has been diagnosed with the disorder. After sharing her son’s autism diagnosis, Brittany Cartwright is speaking out against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s controversial claims about the disorder. The Valley…
RFK pushes to find ‘environmental’ cause of autism, calls rising rates an ‘epidemic’
By Rob Stein , Carmel Wroth Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday declared that autism is a rapidly growing “epidemic” in the U.S. and vowed to identify the “environmental toxin” he says is to blame. He noted that autism incidence in the U.S. has increased from 1 in 36 children in…