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.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the NIH, told a meeting on Monday that NIH’s real-world data platform, drawing data from pharmacy chains, doctor’s offices, medical claims, and wearable items such as smartwatches, would be used in “developing national disease registries, including one, a new one for autism.”…