2025

The Washington Post | "RFK Jr. says we’ll know what causes autism by September. Is that realistic?"

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Dr. Alice Kuo, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and associate professor of internal medicine, pediatrics, and psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was interviewed by the Washington Post about federally-funded research into the cases of autism.

" ... Given the challenges of preventing autism, Kuo said, researchers should pay more attention to the higher rates of illness and premature death among the millions who already have been diagnosed with the condition.

'Those research dollars should be to try to figure out how to help these individuals become successful,' said Kuo, a professor of internal medicine and pediatrics."

Read the Washington Post article.

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