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

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

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

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

Even then, such efforts must still follow strict privacy and data minimization rules ... to the order. Several Illinois advocates, such as Chicagoland Autism Connection, the Southern Illinois ...

The US government is launching a new initiative to investigate autism, using medical data from millions of Medicare ... be “consistent with applicable privacy laws to protect Americans ...

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced a partnership between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that will focus on research ...

“Every Illinoisan deserves dignity, privacy ... all people with disabilities.” Illinois is set to become the first state to restrict autism-related data without legal or medical necessity.

“As the lead agency for The Autism Program of Illinois ... to have equal rights—not be treated like data points or monitored without cause. His privacy is worth our protection.” ...

It will first focus on research around the root causes of autism ... link data for research on other chronic conditions. The agencies said the project will complywith applicable privacy laws.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to tap into Medicare and Medicaid data in its search for the root ...