Gov. J.B. Pritzker has issued an executive order that bars state agencies from collecting and disclosing data about autism to ...

In back-to-back Capitol Hill hearings, Kennedy touched on abortion access, vaccines, measles, research, mental health and ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified on May 14 before the House Appropriations and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and ...

(AP) — 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 to the ...

Illinois is the first state to block the federal government from accessing state data on autism. The order, signed by Gov. JB ...

Baker caught a bug. He thought of more legislation to protect people with autism, and then contacted multiple lawmakers for help. Illinois state Rep. Michelle Mussman (D-Schaumburg) took up Baker ...

A short video taken inside an Illinois school captured troubling behavior: A teacher gripping a 6-year-old boy with autism by the ankle ... this school year, police data shows.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has positioned Illinois as a sanctuary state where all immigrants can feel welcome. But that ideal ...

According to both agencies, the project will initially focus on autism but will expand to support research into other chronic conditions. All data use will comply with existing privacy laws, ...

Severe storms across parts of the U.S. Midwest and South have left at least 27 people dead. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said ...

the NIH has reduced funding for autism-related research by an estimated $31 million to $116 million from $147 million in the same period in 2024, according to a Reuters analysis of NIH data.