Science & Society

A growing number of American children are dropping out of Medicaid and other government programs because their parents are not citizens.

The Trump administration has detained 2,322 children 12 years old or younger amid its border crackdown.

The latest manual of international disease codes is out, a franchise claims to have an autism cure, and two reports diverge on the validity of the social-motivation hypothesis.

A partial ban in Europe on the use of a drug called valproate during pregnancy could deny women effective treatment for serious conditions.

A prospective study shows that antipsychotics mess up metabolism, autism is tied to a doubled risk for food allergies, and a report reveals pervasive sexual harassment in science.

More boys than girls have autism; diagnostic biases and genetic factors may explain the skewed sex ratio.

Benefits of diets for autism features remain unproven, variants of the same DNA region make brains big or small, and STAT announces a new CRISPR tracker.