SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed a first-in-the-nation executive order to block the federal ...

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

The governor's office said the executive order is in response to rising concerns about efforts to create federal autism ...

The head of a local program focused on treating patients with autism spectrum disorder said last week that he hopes plans for ...

The National Institutes of Health and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Wednesday said Medicare and Medicaid private ...

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

For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s promise for "pulling back the curtain" to find autism's causes in ...

Federal health agencies will create a database of autism patients enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid that researchers will use ...

Federal public health agencies announced on Wednesday the start of a pilot program to share Medicare and Medicaid data with ...

Kennedy directed the health department to undertake a far-reaching research effort to identify the causes of autism, a ...

CMS and NIH will start this partnership by establishing a data use agreement under CMS' Research Data Disclosure Program ...

The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have partnered to research the causes of ...