HHS Says Federal Government Not Creating Autism Registry

The director of the National Institutes of Health had recently told a meeting that a new autism registry was being established.

The Department of Health and Human Services building in Washington on Aug. 14, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on April 25 it is not creating a registry for autism, after some advocates raised concerns about what the National Institutes of Health (NIH) director had described as a new autism registry.

“We are not creating an autism registry,” an HHS official told The Epoch Times in an email.