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    News Wrap: Explosion at Popular Tourist Cafe in Morocco Kills at Least 15

    Apr 28, 2011 10:15 PM EST

    ... Williams, and of course the hymn "Jerusalem." KWAME HOLMAN: The ceremony begins at 6:00 a.m. Eastern time tomorrow. A checklist could help detect autism by a baby's first birthday. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, reported the finding today, after testing 10,000 babies. The ...

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    Vaccine Producers Victorious in Supreme Court Ruling Over Lawsuits

    Feb 22, 2011 05:00 AM EST

    ... suggest that Congress intended these types of claims to be brought. JUDY WOODRUFF: And, Marcia, this was a case that was watched very -- being watched very closely by vaccine manufacturers. Tell us why. MARCIA COYLE: It was, Judy, because there are pending a large number of autism vaccine-related claims.

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    Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Rape in Haiti Tent Camps, India Rejects HIV Patent

    Jan 06, 2011 10:58 PM EST

    ... Abbott means generic-drug companies can continue selling copies of the medication at a fraction of the price to the developing world. Study Linking Vaccines, Autism Criticized The 1998 study that first linked Autism and Measles, Mumps & Rubella (MMR) vaccines was "an elaborate fraud" based on doctored information, according to ...

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    Tuesday: Rescue Approaches for Chilean Miners; Fort Hood Hearings Begin

    Oct 12, 2010 01:29 PM EST

    ... claims were barred by the vaccine injury act. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case. Although the case does not involve autism, it could have a major impact on autism cases -- which now make up the bulk of vaccine court cases, although they are not on ...

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    Supreme Court Weighs Whether Vaccine Makers Can Be Sued

    Oct 12, 2010 04:00 AM EST

    JIM LEHRER: So, OK.So, that's -- that's more than a coin toss. MARCIA COYLE: That's true.And another thing, too, you mentioned in your setup here that -- autism cases. JIM LEHRER: Yes. MARCIA COYLE: Ms. Sullivan pointed out that there are 5,000 autism vaccine-related cases ...

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    Scientists Use Scans to Better Understand Brain Maturity

    Sep 09, 2010 08:30 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

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    A Decade on, Human Genome Research Yet to Directly Affect Many Patients

    Jun 24, 2010 04:00 AM EST

    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 ...

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    News Wrap: Afghanistan Tops Iraq in Total U.S. Troop Presence

    May 24, 2010 04:00 AM EST

    ... 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 ...

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    A Reader's Guide to Health Reform

    Mar 22, 2010 02:01 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

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    News Wrap: 9/11 Rescue Workers Offered Settlement

    Mar 13, 2010 12:42 AM EST

    ... 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 ...