An HHS official told USA TODAY that the department is not creating an autism registry, but is pursuing the real-world data ...

"We are not creating an autism registry," a Department of Health and Human Services official said in a statement.

The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.

The NIH study will seek to identify what external environmental factors could be helping to drive rising autism rates.

The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said "it's hard to guarantee when science will make an advance." ...

The Department of Health and Human Services denied rumors of creating an autism registry, citing plans for a data platform to ...

Here’s the data the NIH can collect from your medical history for its ‘autism database’ - The NIH is planning to gather ...

In a Monday council meeting, the head of the National Institute of Health said they are creating a new National Disease ...

In addition to purportedly nailing down a cause, the NIH plans to create a registry to track Americans with autism and integrate that into the data, CBS News reported. Bhattacharya said privacy ...

On April 22, 2025, CBS News reported that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to launch a "disease registry" to track Americans with autism as part of U.S. Department of Health and Human ...