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Editor's Note: As part of the upcoming Autism Now series, we asked series producer Caren Zucker to re-introduce us to the story of Donald -- the first person ever diagnosed with autism -- which she wrote about with her colleague John Donvan in the October Atlantic magazine. "Autism's First ...
... But Bell, of Autism Speaks, disagrees. "Autism is a diagnosis you receive from a medical professional," he says. "School and teachers do not give an autism diagnosis." A 'Holistic' Perspective All of the costs discussed above are only the direct costs of treating autism. Ganz estimates that families also, indirectly ...
... for the rest of their lives? It's a big question. Are we delivering the best services that we know about to the children with autism across the country, so that whatever capability they have of developing better before they become adults rendering them less vulnerable as adults: Are we ...
Veteran reporter Robert MacNeil and producer Caren Zucker will tell the story of "Autism Now" in a 6-part broadcast series beginning Monday, April 18, 2011 on the PBS NewsHour. In a preview conversation with Hari Sreenivasan, MacNeil describes why the series brought him back to the NewsHour.
A study that linked the Measles, Mumps & Rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism was "fraudulent," and based on manipulated data and patient records, according to an investigation published Thursday in the British Medical Journal. It may be the final death knell for the 1998 study that claimed the link. In February ...
... autism. He is also co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine. "That initial publication [in the Lancet] gave birth to the notion that vaccines can cause autism." The original study examined 12 children in Britain and put forth the hypothesis that the MMR vaccine could be a cause of autism. In ...
... it does in girls. Autism symptoms actually spread across a range of disorders known as [autism spectrums disorders](http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/autism-spectrum-disorders-pervasive-developmental-disorders/index.shtml) -- which include [autism](http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/autism/DS00348), [Asperger disorder](http://www.mayoclinic.com/health ...
... old son, Camden, trying as best as possible to get inside his brain. Camden was born with a condition called Noonan Syndrome, and also with autism. The first explains his short stature and wide-set eyes; the second, his difficulties in communicating and in social interaction. MARGUERITE KIRST-COLSTON: The ...
ELIZABETH BRACKETT: He did it by analyzing 170-year-old strands of the famous composer's hair. Walsh began trying to understand what elements in the autistic child's body or brain chemistry had gone awry. This research led to what he saw as a remarkably high correlation between autism ...
... can produce a very mild version of the illness," said Schaffner. The MMR vaccine has long been a target of claims linking the vaccine to autism. Decades of epidemiological research have not demonstrated a link between autism and the MMR vaccine. The claim traces back to a 1998 paper by ...
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