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

Central Illinois families are speaking up as a new executive order from Governor JB Pritzker affirms privacy protections for ...

Cancer before age 50 is rare, but increasing, in the United States and researchers want to know why.

The order was in response to a move by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services earlier Wednesday to research and ...

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

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

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

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

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to tap into Medicare and Medicaid data in its search for the root causes of ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan to use medical data and records from people on Medicaid and Medicare ...

As part of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s quest to find the cause of autism, the NIH will begin using privacy-protected Medicare and Medicaid data.