Governor JB Pritzker signed Executive Order 2025-02 on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, affirming Illinois’ commitment to protecting ...

The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans ...

“Autism is a neurological difference—not a disease or an epidemic,” Pritzker’s order read. “People with disabilities, ...

When I was 12, my parents brought me to the Children’s National Hospital in D.C. for two days of testing. I was socially ...

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The Illinois governor denounced the health secretary’s autism registry as creating “fear of surveillance or discrimination.” ...

April, during his inaugural speech as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. made deeply concerning ...

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

A funeral will be held Thursday in Kankakee for the late former Illinois Gov. George Ryan. Ryan had recently been moved into ...

The Stanford-educated doctor, who aligns with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a critic of "Big Food, Big Pharma, and ... a broken health care landscape," Stat reports. Separately, Kennedy ...

Stat: Vinay Prasad's FDA Speech: Praises Staff, Embraces Evidence In his first address to FDA staff on Wednesday, Vinay Prasad emphasized his commitment to evidence, his admiration for agency ...