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RSSUp till now it was thought that Rett syndrome could not be cured. It is regarded as a severe form of autism and researchers were able to reverse the symptoms in the case of adult mice through correction of errant gene. It is being regarded as a...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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)...
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Parents claiming that childhood vaccines cause autism should not be rewarded by the courts when the scientific community has already rejected any link, government...
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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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AP, United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised the courage of children with autism and their families on the first World Autism Awareness Day, calling Wednesday for all...
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A small study of toddlers finds that about one-quarter of babies born very prematurely had signs of autism on an early screening test.The research is preliminary since...
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AP, Palm Harbor
For all the tough losses he has endured on the golf course the last few years, Ernie Els found perspective at home in the blue eyes of 5-year-old Ben.His son was...
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The parents of the 9-year-old girl who won a government settlement described how their hearts were broken as they watched their bright, red-haired daughter deteriorate...
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Government health officials have conceded that childhood vaccines worsened a rare, underlying disorder that ultimately led to autism-like symptoms in a Georgia girl,...
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A national autism advocacy group is demanding an apology from CBS over a disparaging remark a contestant on the reality show “Big Brother” made about people...
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A rare genetic variation dramatically raises the risk of developing autism, a large study showed, opening new research targets for better understanding the disorder and...
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Autism cases in California continued to climb even after a mercury-based vaccine preservative that some people blame for the neurological disorder was removed from...
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AP, Los Angeles
Autism cases in California continued to climb even after a mercury-based vaccine preservative that some people blame for the neurological disorder was removed from...
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Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday pledged to help autistic families by boosting funding for research and education to $700 million a year.”Driven by...
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