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... Worrall Elementary School in Broomal, Pa. The reporters aren't simply young and driven, they also have Asperger's syndrome. Children with this form of autism often have trouble with social cues like facial expressions and gestures ... and working well with others. MICHAEL RIZZO: I said Mona Lisa! BETTY ANN ...
... population of mosquitoes, which spread the virus. Older fathers pose a greater risk of passing on gene mutations to their children that could lead to autism and schizophrenia. That was the conclusion of a study published online by the journal "Nature." Scientists sequenced the genomes of 78 Icelandic families in ...
... s being led by companies, like the senator mentions, like at Walgreens. Randy Lewis is a parent. He is a parent of a child with autism. And he's a senior executive at Walgreens. And he set out consciously to change their work force. And what they found is that ...
... on the matter haven't shifted a bit. Lisa Hill The mother of a son, Adam, who has struggled most of his life with leukemia, autism and epilepsy, Lisa applauds the Supreme Court decision. If the law goes forward as planned, Adam's pre-existing conditions will no longer jeopardize ...
... going through. EDWARD LUCE: Yes. They both work full-time, day and night. He, Mark Freeman, has three jobs. They have a son with severe autism. And they volunteer. They're the sort of backbone American neighborhood types who volunteer for the little league, to coach the little league, neighborhood ...
... to quit her job at a title agency in St. Louis to take care of her sick 17-year-old who had struggled with leukemia, autism, and epilepsy. Her husband had no insurance through the family-owned plumbing company. The temporary COBRA insurance that carried over from Lisa's old ...
In other news Wednesday, Internet giant Yahoo announced that it will lay off 2,000 employees as part of a plan to redeploy resources and boost revenues. Also, a barrage of tornadoes Tuesday damaged or destroyed 650 homes in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. No deaths and only a few serious injuries were reported.
Getty illustration by Zigy Kaluzny In the classroom, it starts simply -- sometimes with a struggle to sound out simple words; sometimes with trouble telling time, memorizing the times tables or learning left from right. It often ends simply, too: with a troubling statistic. One in five of the American students identified as having a...
An unconventional approach to recovery and coping, music therapy is a field of medicine capturing new attention due to its role in helping Gabrielle Giffords recover from a gunshot. Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on the versatility of music in a medical setting, but the difficulty of quantifying its effectiveness.
Open wide, Oscar, it's time for a check-up. Posture and sheen look good, as usual. Sword appears sharp, base solid. But with the Academy Awards slated for Sunday, we decided to bring in a medical doctor to examine the accuracy of the health themes in all those films you've been praising, too. Enter Dr. Howard...
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