• Researchers look for link between air pollution and brain disease

    Researchers look for link between air pollution and brain disease

    Jan 15, 2023 10:40 PM EDT

    ... evidence showing associations between exposures to air pollution in a a real wide variety of neurological diseases and disorders that is included neurodevelopmental disorders like autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, as well as neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, etc.. How that's happening, we still don ...

  • News Wrap: Labor Department report shows inflation is slowing

    News Wrap: Labor Department report shows inflation is slowing

    Dec 13, 2022 11:55 PM EDT

    ... S&P 500 added 29.Still to come on the "NewsHour": U.S. immigration officials face a surge of asylum seekers near El Paso; Brittney Griner's agent discusses the basketball star's road to recovery; a new documentary follows the first person ever diagnosed with autism; plus much more.

  • California tenants rise up, demand rent caps and more protections from city councils

    California tenants rise up, demand rent caps and more protections from city councils

    Nov 05, 2022 03:56 PM EDT

    ... home in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Antioch. Her property manager is verbally abusive and calls her 9-year-old grandson, who has autism, a slur word, she said. Her heater was busted for a month this winter and the dishwasher has mold growing under it. But the ...

  • Students with disabilities innovate ways to use spaces, products not designed for them

    Students with disabilities innovate ways to use spaces, products not designed for them

    Oct 26, 2022 10:25 PM EDT

    Anthony Zhou, University of California, Berkeley, Disability Lab: So, if you give it a nice breath, then the CO2 value should go up. Cat Wise: It can measure conditions like air quality and light levels in U.C. Berkeley classrooms, things people with various disabilities, including autism, can be sensitive ...

  • Making the joys of surfing accessible to kids with disabilities

    Making the joys of surfing accessible to kids with disabilities

    Oct 22, 2022 09:30 PM EDT

    ... are typically neurodivergent were for all kids. We've built our program on inclusion. But I'd say over 95% of our athletes either have autism, down syndrome, ADHD, depression or anxiety. Mackenzie Palumbo, Parent: Kash and Hollis are 13 years old, their twin boys. They were diagnosed at 15 ...

  • U.S. military aims to address mental health as suicides rise

    U.S. military aims to address mental health as suicides rise

    Oct 10, 2022 03:51 PM EDT

    ... and exercises. Working with horses has long been used as a form of therapy for people with physical or mental disabilities and children diagnosed with autism. But in recent years, it has been embraced for helping service members with anxiety and PTSD. "In order to be able to work with ...

  • Mother and child sit down for candid conversation about vaccine hesitancy

    Mother and child sit down for candid conversation about vaccine hesitancy

    Sep 16, 2022 10:20 PM EDT

    ... Andrew Wakefield about the potential that the MMR vaccine could cause autism in babies. Dr. Trahern W. Jones, University of Utah: So, in the 1990s, Andrew Wakefield was a physician who enrolled about 12 children into a study where he made a link between the MMR vaccine and childhood autism.

  • How airports can make travel more accessible for flyers with disabilities

    How airports can make travel more accessible for flyers with disabilities

    Aug 27, 2022 09:30 PM EDT

    ... airport personnel who provide wheelchair assistance. Rich Kargel, Delta Airlines Pilot: OK, my name is Rich. I'm also the father of a son with autism. Megan Thompson: Another Delta Pilot, Rich Kargel helped facilitate the cabins move up from Atlanta, and today he's leading the other tour for ...

  • Rep. Jerry Nadler defeats Rep. Carolyn Maloney in battle of top New York Democrats

    Rep. Jerry Nadler defeats Rep. Carolyn Maloney in battle of top New York Democrats

    Aug 24, 2022 01:57 AM EDT

    ... her past positions on vaccines, including in 2006 when she introduced legislation directing the federal government to study the debunked theory that vaccines can cause autism. Maloney insisted that she supports vaccines and regretted having ever questioned vaccine safety. The primary winner in the overwhelmingly Democratic district will face Republican ...

  • 2022 New York Primary Congressional Election Results

    2022 New York Primary Congressional Election Results

    Aug 23, 2022 05:48 PM EDT

    ... her past positions on vaccines, including in 2006 when she introduced legislation directing the federal government to study the debunked theory that vaccines can cause autism. Maloney insisted that she supports vaccines and regretted having ever questioned vaccine safety.The primary winner in the overwhelmingly Democratic district will face Republican ...