How a marked rise in the treatment of certain conditions – physical and mental – is harming, not protecting, public health.

Trump has promised that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the country's health secretary, will "figure out what is going on." ...

TikTok's vicious algorithm have been both helpful and harmful as users access information and self-diagnose based on ...

Texas announced the first measles death in the U.S. in a decade last week amid an ongoing outbreak. Here's where measles has ...

As an angel investor, Peter Shankman has made millions investing in startups, yet it wasn’t easy getting to the top of the ...

Robert F. Kennedy, in his first comments on measles as the new Trump health secretary, says the outbreak is not unusual. 'We ...

Autism spectrum disorders are defined as a group of complex and lifelong neurodevelopmental disorders which are characterized by varying degrees of pertinent deficits in two areas: Examples of ...

There are three levels of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which are described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5). Each autistic person is diagnosed as ...

A new diagnostic tool is allowing central New York physicians to more quickly determine if a young child has autism. The tool is called EarliPoint Evaluation. It’s meant for children between 16 and 30 ...

Chronic worry interferes with an ability to function normally, even if you are aware that the fears may be irrational or excessive. To meet the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" ...

Nelson said, encouraging people to seek a diagnosis. Natasha Nelson, who was diagnosed with autism in August 2023, just after her youngest daughter was also diagnosed, sits in a sensory room she ...

Autism wasn’t even a separate diagnosis from schizophrenia in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders until 1980, the year Kennedy said the affliction began rising. Before 1991 ...