• FDA says it's exploring CBD's uses. Does it work — and is it legal?

    FDA says it's exploring CBD's uses. Does it work — and is it legal?

    Apr 02, 2019 09:47 PM EST

    ... trust any of it until I knew independently it was safe," Bonn-Miller said. What's ahead? CBD research is planned or underway for cancer, autism, diabetic neuropathy, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, alcoholism with PTSD and psychiatric conditions. Results will take years, but some people aren't waiting. "They are vulnerable ...

  • Measles outbreak sparks fears, renews tensions over mandatory vaccination

    Measles outbreak sparks fears, renews tensions over mandatory vaccination

    Mar 05, 2019 11:35 PM EST

    ... decades, some parents have argued that their children became autistic because of vaccines. That link has been investigated and debunked. Man: And yet we listen to our medical establishment telling us, we have proven, we have debunked the idea that vaccines cause autism. Woman: Liars! Man: And they are lying.

  • WATCH: Teen shares why he defied mother's anti-vaccination ideas

    WATCH: Teen shares why he defied mother's anti-vaccination ideas

    Mar 05, 2019 06:04 PM EST

    ... movement. Ethan Lindenberger, 18, got vaccinated without his parents' permission once he was old enough, acting against his mother's incorrect belief that vaccines cause autism, brain damage and other ailments. "My mother is an anti-vaxx advocate [who] believes that vaccines ... do not benefit the health and safety of ...

  • Column: Facebook is not all bad at 15, but now it must be good

    Column: Facebook is not all bad at 15, but now it must be good

    Feb 04, 2019 04:02 PM EST

    ... get a cognitive boost; people who seek a self-esteem boost from viewing their own profiles, shy people, people with diabetes and people on the autism spectrumhave all felt more support and improved well-being from using the site. Can Facebook turn great to good? As Facebook turns 15, the ...

  • Measles patients are mostly children. Here's why

    Measles patients are mostly children. Here's why

    Jan 29, 2019 10:36 PM EST

    ... you: Vaccines don’t contain harmful amounts of aluminum or mercury -- a common notion propagated by the anti-vaccine community -- and can’t give you autism, which has been debunked so many times that each letter of that phrase is linked to a different source. Febrile seizures, which have often ...

  • Most Americans support gene editing to protect babies, poll finds

    Most Americans support gene editing to protect babies, poll finds

    Dec 28, 2018 03:02 PM EST

    ... choices about what non-fatal disorders should qualify, said Columbia University bioethicist Dr. Robert Klitzman. What if scientists could pinpoint genes involved with depression or autism or obesity — would they be OK to edit? "It's one thing to look at the extremes of fatal diseases versus cosmetic things, but ...

  • How this Cleveland pants factory is sewing hope

    How this Cleveland pants factory is sewing hope

    Nov 28, 2018 11:15 PM EST

    ... personal battle each day that comes in the form of a physical or cognitive disability. Barbara Moore: I am visually impaired. I was actually legally -- I was born legally blind with sight. David Ogletree: I have mild autism, and I have been having it, some struggles with it growing up.

  • What’s on your citrus fruit? Trump’s EPA fights to keep controversial insecticide in use

    What’s on your citrus fruit? Trump’s EPA fights to keep controversial insecticide in use

    Oct 10, 2018 10:20 PM EST

    ... executive function a little bit later. And now we're beginning to show some signs of poor social cognition, which is kind of related to autism-like symptoms. Miles O'Brien: Claudia Angulo lives beside the fields in the Central Valley with her four children. Her 12-year-old son ...

  • For kids in Puerto Rico, 'we don’t know all the damage they have endured' from Hurricane Maria

    For kids in Puerto Rico, 'we don’t know all the damage they have endured' from Hurricane Maria

    Sep 21, 2018 08:13 PM EST

    ... has operated in the town of Caguas, and saw an average of 14 patients a day, aged 2 to 19, who were seeking treatment for autism, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder or behavior issues. After Hurricane Maria, his caseload dropped to as few as two patients a day. Many missed ...

  • What's happened since California let fewer families reject vaccines

    What's happened since California let fewer families reject vaccines

    Sep 05, 2018 09:29 PM EST

    ... to 500 people died annually. In a now-retracted 1998 study published in the journal the Lancet, Dr. Andrew Wakefield claimed a false link between autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella. This study has been widely and repeatedly debunked. But some people continue to point to it ...