Archive for the ‘Autism’ Category
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Two new clinical reports from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) will help pediatricians recognize autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) earlier and guide families to effective interventions, which will ultimately improve the lives of children with ASDs and their families.
The first clinical report, "Identification and Evaluation of Children With Autism Spectrum ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Today, like every day, 75 more children will be born with autism.* It is the fastest growing developmental disorder in this country.** While there is no cure, there is hope for a new, more effective treatment. Doctors are turning to a drug that's been used for generations to treat other ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
The Autism Consortium, a group of researchers, clinicians and families dedicated to radically accelerating research and enhancing clinical care for autism, has announced that it has completed the first genome scan for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) through its Autism Gene Discovery Project and has released the reference data set to ...
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
What: Pregnant women and new mothers who already have one child with autism joined UC Davis researchers and officials from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as they announced funding of $7.5 million for UC Davis autism research. Part of the funding ...
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Autistic children are doubly stigmatized. On the one hand, they are often dismissed as 'low functioning' or mentally retarded, especially if they have poor speaking skills as many do. Yet when autistics do show exceptional abilities -- uncanny visual discrimination and memory for detail, for example -- their flashes of ...
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Sunday, August 5th, 2007
The National Institutes of Health will intensify its efforts to find the causes of autism and identify new treatments for the disorder, through a new research program.
The Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) program represents a consolidation of two existing programs, the Studies to Advance Autism Research and Treatment (STAART) and ...
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007
A study published in the August issue of the journal Brain demonstrates, for the first time, an association between increased white matter volume and functional impairment in children with autism. Findings from researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Md. reveal that in children with autism, increased white matter ...
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007
According to the Congressional Quarterly, the White House stated on Tuesday that President Bush would veto the HHS-Labor-Education Appropriations Bill because of the cost and "objectionable provisions" such as a measure to ban the use of childhood flu vaccines that contain thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative.
Autism advocacy groups are outraged because ...
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
More than 900 scientists, parents and activists from around the world who are focused on understanding the causes of autism and finding treatments for the developmental disorder will gather in Seattle May 3-5 to share the latest research findings at the sixth annual International Meeting for Autism Research.
The meeting at ...
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