Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four-year-old Jose Morales-Ortiz, with his guardian, Keith Joyce, is taking the drug leucovorin to help with this autism symptoms.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Why is everyone talking about leucovorin—a drug some say could treat the symptoms of autism? The ...

Meagan Johnson recently spent four days calling dozens of pharmacies across the Austin area, trying to fill a prescription for her son, Jack. Jack has autism. At age 3, most kids have a vocabulary of ...

Corrections and clarifications: Due to an editing error, a previous version of this story mischaracterized the scope of the new FDA approval for leucovorin. The Food and Drug Administration has denied ...

At a press conference in late 2025, federal officials made some big claims about leucovorin, a prescription drug usually reserved for people on cancer chemotherapy. "We're going to change the label to ...

The Trump administration is hailing a medication called leucovorin for reducing some autism symptoms, but experts who research or treat autism almost uniformly agree the medication should be studied ...

Matthew Herper covers medical innovation — both its promise and its perils. Could Tylenol, one of the most ubiquitous medicines in the U.S., be linked to some cases of autism spectrum disorder when ...

Faced with soaring demand for leucovorin for use in children with autism, the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) has said there is "limited evidence" for its safety and effectiveness. Parents of ...

Six months ago, 4-year-old Jose Morales-Ortiz was struggling to say two-word sentences. Jose has severe autism, and he couldn’t have a conversation and wouldn’t answer to his name most of the time — ...