NIH director proposes national health database, sparks privacy concerns

Health agencies "not creating an autism registry," official says, contradicting NIH director

"We are not creating an autism registry," a Department of Health and Human Services official said in a statement.

She only learned her privacy had been breached by filing an access to information request

A woman in Nova Scotia says people should not assume their health records are safe from snooping, something she discovered for herself only after filing an access to information request.

RFK Jr. Wants an Autism ‘Registry.’ People Are Pissed

To assist him in his quest to determine the cause — or causes — of autism by September, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his hand-picked researchers will have access to a so-called “disease registry” of people living with autism, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya announced on Monday.  Speaking at a meeting of NIH advisers, Bhattacharya also laid out plans for a soon-to-be-launched “real-…

NIH director proposes national health database, sparks privacy concerns

Privacy experts are sounding the alarm after the federal government announced a plan earlier this week to create a health database of the U.S. population. National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya said the information will be used for autism research and a national disease registry. The announcement came after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised...

Is RFK Jr. building a National Autism Registry? Outrage grows over medical data collection - The Times of India

The National Institutes of Health is gathering medical records for autism research led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This move aims to track the medical history of individuals with autism. Concerns arise over data privacy and potential government overreach. Critics are calling it an "autism registry." Social media users express outrage, citing privacy violations and historical parallels.

RFK Jr claims teenage boys in America have less testosterone than 68 year-old men

‘A teenager today, an American teenager, has less testosterone than a 68-year-old man,’ the nation’s top health official tells Fox News host Jesse Watters