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It’s appreciable that the father John Travolta has defied the beliefs of John Travolta the high-profile scientologist. The actor has acknowledged against the...
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Young Somali children in the Minneapolis public schools are over-represented in autism programs, the Minnesota Health Department reported, confirming the observations...
made popular Apr 1 2009
AP, Kent
Sky Walker watches recordings of “The Price is Right” over and over again on a TV positioned just outside his jail cell, a calming ritual for the autistic...
made popular Mar 19 2009
AP, Jefferson City
Tom and Jenny Whitty have cashed out their children’s college funds, maxed out several credit cards and taken out a second mortgage on their house _ all to pay...
made popular Mar 5 2009
AP, Washington
Bitter feuding over a possible link between vaccines and autism won’t go away despite a strong rejection of that theory by a special federal court.
made popular Feb 13 2009
AP, Washington
Vaccines aren’t to blame for autism, a special federal court declared Thursday in a blow to thousands of families hoping to win compensation and to many more who...
made popular Feb 12 2009
AP, Washington
In a big blow to parents who believe vaccines caused their children’s autism, a special court ruled Thursday that the shots are not to blame.
made popular Feb 12 2009
AP, London
It wasn’t until Jude met Jenny that the 3-year-old autistic boy understood what happy people look like.
made popular Jan 15 2009
AP, Chicago
Unique brain wave patterns, spotted for the first time in autistic children, may help explain why they have so much trouble communicating.
made popular Dec 2 2008
AP, Chicago
More than half a million U.S. children have autism with costly health care needs that often put an unprecedented financial strain on their families, national data...
made popular Dec 1 2008
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A government agency has dropped plans to test a controversial treatment for autism that critics had called an unethical experiment on children.
made popular Sep 17 2008
It is amazing, but it is a fact. Scientists have come up with a wonder drug that can create a kind of confidence in a human and can spread the sense of love and care...
made popular Sep 15 2008
With a new case of autism diagnosed nearly every 20 minutes in the United States, one in every 150 children born in the country have autism, which goes with the...
made popular Sep 9 2008
AP, Fargo
When a 13-year-old Minnesota boy was banned from church after parishioners complained about his behavior, it exposed a painful truth so politically incorrect that some...
made popular Aug 13 2008
AP, Washington
Harvard researchers have discovered half a dozen new genes involved in autism that suggest the disorder strikes in a brain that can’t properly form new...
made popular Jul 10 2008
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QUACK RESEARCH? The government wants to test chelation, a treatment for lead poisoning, on children with autism _ even though there’s no evidence it leads to...
made popular Jul 8 2008
Autism affects 1 out of every 150 children in the United States. I am the mother of two of those children. Extreme mood swings - laughing to crying to playing,...
made popular Jun 13 2008
I just can’t make this any clearer. Vaccines do not cause autism. Study after study has shown this, in multiple ways. The removal of the MMR (mumps-measles-rubella)...
made popular May 13 2008
AP, Washington
Parents claiming that childhood vaccines cause autism should not be rewarded by the courts when the scientific community has already rejected any link, government...
made popular May 12 2008
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Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine Monday as they take their case to a federal...
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