• Don't blame grandma yet, but your asthma may be her fault

    Don't blame grandma yet, but your asthma may be her fault

    Dec 09, 2015 05:01 AM EST

    ... into humans, or if the result has a positive or negative effect. While a handful of human studies have observed a relationship where folate increases autism risk, the majority -- 80 percent -- argue that it decreases the chances of developing autism. So how much should you take? At the moment, no ...

  • News Wrap: Kurdish forces drive Islamic State out of Sinjar

    News Wrap: Kurdish forces drive Islamic State out of Sinjar

    Nov 14, 2015 03:15 AM EST

    ... the firms argued they're running skill-based games. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now estimates that one in 45 American children has autism. That figure, in a new report today, is significantly higher than the previous estimate of one in 68. Researchers say a change in the ...

  • 2 false claims and a truth from the GOP debate in Boulder

    2 false claims and a truth from the GOP debate in Boulder

    Oct 30, 2015 12:58 AM EST

    ... is a company called Mannatech, a maker of nutritional supplements, with which you had a 10-year relationship. They offered claims that they could cure autism, cancer. They paid $7 million to settle a deceptive marketing lawsuit in Texas, and yet you're involvement continued. Why? BEN CARSON, Republican Presidential ...

  • What happens when police become school disciplinarians?

    What happens when police become school disciplinarians?

    Oct 29, 2015 02:23 AM EST

    ... data, at about three times what the national average was. We looked at some cases, including the case of an 11-year-old boy with autism in a school. He was first cited by an officer, a school resource officer, for kicking a trash can during a bad moment he ...

  • PBS NewsHour full episode October 21, 2015

    PBS NewsHour full episode October 21, 2015

    Oct 22, 2015 12:27 AM EST

    ... Ryan’s conditions for a House speaker run, the constant wave of migrants as winter approaches in Europe, calls for fewer arrests for nonviolent offenders, Hillary Clinton prepares for a hearing on Benghazi, searching for the genetic keys to autism and Ellen Bryant Voigt talks about what inspires her poetry.

  • What you should know about Social Security disability benefits

    What you should know about Social Security disability benefits

    Oct 08, 2015 07:23 PM EST

    ... times this year and may receive over this amount again. He works as a software tester with a company that trains and pays people with autism. From reading your columns, am I correct to understand that he is permanently not entitled to the disabled child benefits when my husband or ...

  • In reforming New Orleans, have charter schools left some students out?

    In reforming New Orleans, have charter schools left some students out?

    Aug 29, 2015 12:21 AM EST

    Ten years ago, New Orleans public schools were headed for academic rock bottom. And then Hurricane Katrina came, a disaster so devastating that it offered the rare opportunity to start over. Charter schools, empowered to take over, have raised test scores and graduation rates. But some say that success comes from bending the rules. Special...

  • 8 things you didn't know about Orville Wright

    8 things you didn't know about Orville Wright

    Aug 20, 2015 12:29 PM EST

    Happy 144th birthday, Orville Wright!

  • Scientists say fetal tissue remains essential for vaccines and developing treatments

    Scientists say fetal tissue remains essential for vaccines and developing treatments

    Aug 11, 2015 03:35 PM EST

    BOSTON — The furor on Capitol Hill over Planned Parenthood has stoked a debate about the use of tissue from aborted fetuses in medical research, but U.S. scientists have been using such cells for decades to develop vaccines and seek treatments for a host of ailments, from vision loss and neurological disorders to cancer and...

  • Review finds Trump's charity donations are modest

    Review finds Trump's charity donations are modest

    Aug 02, 2015 05:05 PM EST

    Donald Trump, widely believed to the be the wealthiest American ever to run for president, is nowhere among the ranks of the country's most generous citizens, according to an Associated Press review