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... to learn more about brain disorders and eventually be able identify them earlier. "Let's say you have a family who has one child with autism, and wants to know whether the next child is going to have autism," Schlaggar says. If a scan could predict the likelihood of autism ...
Well, let's suppose I'm interested in trying to understand autism. We know that autism has hereditary contributions. If a family has a child with that disease, the risk that the next child will have it goes up by almost a factor of 100. So, there's something really ...
... in Britain today. A British oversight body found Dr. Andrew Wakefield committed serious misconduct. His 1998 study connecting the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine to autism has been widely discredited. Still, it led to major declines in vaccination rates worldwide. Wakefield now has an autism center in Texas. Those are ...
... piece titled "The Health Care Crisis Hits Home," which chronicled the battles her brother encountered over the years as he dealt with a form of autism. Perhaps no writer was more quoted throughout this debate than surgeon and New Yorker writer Dr. Atul Gawande, whose work was cited by President ...
... up enough Democratic votes. Republicans are strongly opposed to the bill. A special federal claims court has ruled a vaccine preservative, thimerosal, doesn't cause autism. The court said families failed to show any connection. More than 5,500 claims are pending with a federal compensation program. And today's ...
... authorities. He was captured in recent weeks. A court in Milan, Italy, has convicted three Google executives of violating the privacy of a boy with autism. It was the first criminal trial of its kind. Footage of the boy being bullied by teenagers was posted on Google Video's Web ...
... example, the new manual would eliminate the separate categories of autistic disorder and Asperger's disorder, and classify them under a new, broader category of autism spectrum disorders -- a term that's already in everyday use. Other changes are broader. For example, the manual would create a new category of ...
... by mental health professionals to classify and diagnose illnesses. The proposed revisions have been a decade in the making, among them: a single category called autism spectrum disorders that would incorporate Asperger's syndrome; a category called behavioral addictions, in which gambling would be the sole disorder; a risk syndromes ...
In the wake of The Lancet medical journal fully retracting its 1998 study suggesting a link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism, we spoke with New York Times public health reporter Gardiner Harris for some perspective on the significance. _pap_embed_custom('news01s3a62qdbe',482,304,""); The study's ...
... WEB-ONLY- Hari Sreenivasan gives a tour of new and related features on the site, including: The Lancet's formal retraction of a study linking autism to a vaccine; a Global Post comparison of how other countries handle gays in the military; and a poem on the housing crisis. All ...
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