DALLAS — At birth, there was nothing to suggest 18-year-old twins Gabe and Gatlin Britt, of Heath, were autistic. Until about a year and a half. “They weren’t talking, they weren’t really responding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A model of a DNA molecule is displayed in the New York office of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in 1962.

A Massachusetts man whose twin boys have profound autism found the Republican president’s words hopeful because it was the first time the father had seen autism discussed at the highest levels of ...

Earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that the search for autism’s cause — a question that has kept researchers busy for the better part of six decades — ...