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We are the UKs leading charity for autistic people and their families. Since 1962, we have been providing support, guidance and advice, as well as campaigning for improved rights, services and opportunities to help create a society that works for autistic people.

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News CNBC 2 months ago

Trump signs executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines, falsely linking shots to autism

The order builds on the Trump administration's efforts to reshape the childhood shot schedule under HHS Secretary RFK Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic.

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News AP News 2 months ago

Trump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines, against medical groups' guidance

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three different single-disease shots.

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News bloomberg.com 2 months ago

Trump Cites Unproven Autism Risk in Attack on Childhood Vaccines Read more

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News Ars Technica 2 months ago

Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism

Trump determined to link life-saving shots to autism, despite science and political risk.

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News The Washington Post 2 months ago

White House drafting order on vaccines, autism despite pollsters' warnings

The effort underscores President Donald Trump's determination to elevate vaccine policy even as a federal judge has halted Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sweeping vaccine overhaul.

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News nytimes.com 2 months ago

Medicaid Urges States to Increase Autism Therapy Oversight Read more

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News UCLAHealth 3 months ago

Drug reverses autism-like brain changes in adult mice within hours, study finds

A new mouse study led by UCLA Health suggests that inflammation during pregnancy can trigger autism-like changes in offspring, but also that those brain and behavior effects may be rapidly but temporarily reversible in adulthood with a short-term dose of

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News theatlantic 3 months ago

What's Behind the Rise in Mild Autism?

The number of people with the condition has increased rapidly in recent decades. Some researchers and clinicians worry that many patients have been wrongly diagnosed.

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News the Guardian 3 months ago

Pioneer of 'extreme male brain' theory of autism now says phrase unhelpful

Exclusive: Prof Simon Baron-Cohen says his language was misunderstood and it is a myth that autistic people lack empathy