A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and Aarhus University shows that children and adolescents ...

People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the United States face a 14-year deficit in life expectancy, according to a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, is the clinical name for the condition most people refer to as autism. Autism is defined as "a ...

People with autism are more likely to die early from various health conditions, including influenza, drowning, and ...

A new US study points to what is really driving the recent rise in diagnoses.

There is a trend of increasingly disproportionate autism spectrum disorder diagnoses among female patients after 2020.

About 2% of the world's adults have autism spectrum disorder. And many people recently have come to the realization that they're autistic as adults, some sharing their stories about their diagnosis or ...

The lead researcher told Newsweek some people in this group learn to hide autistic traits, making them harder to identify.

At a time when the debate has resurfaced in the United States, a 15-year review by the World Health Organization (WHO) has ...

The guidelines would bolster Medicaid’s oversight of autism therapy, focusing on a growing business that is drawing scrutiny from federal investigators. ​The president is focused on the shots’ alleged ...

Large U.S. study points to preventable causes of excess mortality ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder that involves impairments in social interaction and communication, challenges with sensory processing, and repetitive behaviors. The term ...