(Reuters) -The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) said on Wednesday that agencies had held a partnership to enable research on the root causes of autism spectrum disorder.
The NIH partnership will help create a real world data platform that enables advanced research through claim data, electronic medical records and consumer devices.
CMS and NIH will start this partnership by creating a data use agreement as part of the CMS search data detection program focusing on medical care registrants and medicaid with autism diagnosis.
The spread of autism in the United States increased to 1 in 31, from 1 in 36, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
American Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services, Robert F. Kennedy Junior: “We are reviewing the curtain – with transparency and full accountability – to provide the sincere answers that families have waited for a very long time to hear.”
Kennedy, a former environmental lawyer, promoted a long -term link between vaccines and autism.
Earlier in April, the United States Minister of Health said that environmental shareholders in autism are behind its increasing spread, adding that he is planning to consider everything from mold to medicine to identify them.
(Participate in SRIPARNA ROY reports in Bangaluru; Liberation by Shailesh Kuber)
