In the wake of the White House's announcement on Monday of a potential link between acetaminophen use in pregnancy and autism , the administration also unveiled the launch of the Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI). Under the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the initiative will award $50 million to about a dozen projects looking at finding the causes of autism and improving outcomes for autistic individuals. Some institutions, such as Boston Children's Hospital, will look to identify environmental exposures that may lead to autism while others, such as Drexel University, will examine the of diet and its interactions with other exposures in the development of autism. "Our Autism Data Science Initiative will unite powerful datasets in ways never before possible," Dr. Jay Bhattacharya,

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