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An ambitious six-year effort to gauge the rate of childhood autism in a middle-class South Korean city has yielded a figure that stunned experts and is likely to influence the way the disorder’s prevalence is measured around the world, scientists reported on Monday.

Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children....

The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research.