Summary
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is giving $50 million in grants to study autism. The money supports research to understand the condition better and improve treatments. This comes amid President Trump's focus on autism research and controversial plans for a database of individuals with autism.
Key Facts
- NIH announced a $50 million grant project aimed at autism research.
- Part of the funding goes to Cornell University, which received $5.1 million.
- The research seeks to understand existing treatments and improve them.
- The Trump administration proposed a database to track autism, sparking controversy.
- President Trump has made autism research a key point of his health agenda.
- Some officials have suggested a link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism, but this is not confirmed.
- President Trump and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have made unproven claims about autism's causes, such as linking it to vaccines and Tylenol.
- Researchers at Cornell are using a system called R squared to verify autism study results.
