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... markets a pediatric program that suggests on its website that alternative medicine, including “detoxification programs” and “botanical medicines,” can help children with conditions ranging from autism to asthma to ADHD. “We’ve become witch doctors,” said Dr. Steven Novella, a professor of neurology at the Yale School of Medicine and ...
Tuesday on the NewsHour, a federal appeals court takes up President Trump's controversial immigration order. Also: Fact-checking the claim that the press underreports terror attacks, shocking details of a Syrian prison, how Betsy DeVos could reshape education policy, unique challenges for black children with autism and a new ...
... autism. But Kennedy, the son of the late U.S. attorney general and senator, has long argued that vaccines containing the preservative thimerosal may cause autism, and has advocated for parents to more easily opt out of childhood vaccinations. Trump also has voiced vaccine skepticism, on Twitter and during one ...
... while because of the dynamism of the author. John Elder Robison describes how his life changed after Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Elder is on the the autism spectrum and has written extensively about his life, but the idea of an awakening of sorts where you realize that even some of the ...
... treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. Smaller studies have been conducted or are underway testing psilocybin against depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety in adults with autism and against alcohol, cocaine and tobacco addictions. A handful of studies in Europe are testing LSD and other psychedelics for similar uses. Beyond the ...
... he said, seeing this actually gives -- makes my stomach hurt. JUDY WOODRUFF: He is Sara's son, Ben Breaux, a 16-year-old with nonverbal autism. Ben can't speak out loud, so he communicates by spelling out his thoughts, letter by letter. After seeing a lot of Donald Trump ...
... still not know about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton? Also: Iraqi forces push into the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, the debate over bilingual education in schools, the value of political strategists, finding health insurance for children with autism and why some conservative voters don’t trust the government.
... producer Sheraz Sadiq bring us a story of a single mother struggling to use her benefits to get treatment for herself and her son with autism. APRIL DEMBOSKY: On a Sunday afternoon, Natalie Dunnege and her boyfriend, Russell Lifson, head to the park with Natalie's 13-year-old son ...
Scientists on Monday will urge the Food and Drug Administration to crack down on rogue clinics across the country that market stem cell treatments.
Wednesday on the NewsHour, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake reacts to a scathing review of her city’s police force. Also: Two views on what makes a person fit for the presidency, creating a place in the world for people with autism, appalling conditions in refugee camps off the Australian coast, computers that read human emotions and...
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