A leading national autism researcher cautions against only considering environmental factors being primarily to blame for a drastic increase in known national cases, as has been suggested by by U.S.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared Wednesday that autism is a rapidly growing "epidemic" in the U.S. and vowed to identify the "environmental toxin" he says is to blame ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s statements at a news conference Wednesday contradicted decades of autism research, which has generally not ...

Obstetrician Jeanne Conry has long paid attention to the “1,300-day window”- the months before conception through a child’s second birthday. Studies show nutrition and lifestyle during this period ...

Your surroundings may influence your social behavior more than you realize. New research from the Brain Research Institute at Niigata University in Japan suggests that environmental context can ...