Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order to protect residents in his state from Health and Human Services ...

Pritzker’s order responds to federal efforts under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to create databases of personal ...

Federal health officials didn’t provide information about how people’s private medical data will be collected and managed.

After concerns that the administration planned to create an ‘autism registry,’ officials announced a more modest database ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the plan on Wednesday, which involves a data-sharing agreement between the ...

The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, ...

Federal health officials want to collect individuals' health data so they can answer questions about autism and chronic ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday that two major federal agencies within ...

Researchers have already used Medicaid and Medicare claims data for a long time, said Eric Rubenstein, an autism researcher ...

The partnership will focus first on "enabling research around the root causes" of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), HHS said.

Pritzker said the order was necessary in response to concerns about the creation of a federal autism registry or database without legal protections.