The suit was filed weeks after Steven Harrison pleaded guilty to sexually abusing the 27-year-old woman with severe autism.

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits ...

Backers claim the tests can predict a child’s risk of autism using a strand of hair or a mother’s blood, but critics say they are not ready for the market.

Shockwaves tore through a Colorado community as Kiarra Jones, 30, admitted in court to a slew of brutal assaults against ...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. flu infections showed signs of a slight decline last week, but health officials say it’s not clear that ...

NJ health officials say a child younger than five years old has died from the flu, making it the first pediatric death this ...

This report is based on a recent in-depth article by the BBC, which examined how modern genetics is transforming scientific understanding of autism and reigniting debates within the autistic community ...

After controlling for familial factors, acid-suppressive medications in pregnancy showed no association with risk for ...

The teen who did not pull the trigger of the compound bow that killed his autistic friend last February, but who conspired to ...

Recent reviews indicate that hesitancy is increasing in pediatric settings, with more parents selectively delaying, spacing, ...