Autism News

The boy sat at the table, legs crossed, shoes off, and slowly rocked his body in his chair while he flipped through a thick history book.

A new study out of California found a connection between pregnant mothers' exposure to pesticides and the risk their children will have autism.

A hearing assessment program for at-risk preschool children will begin in the fall thanks to support from The Blue Ribbon Foundation of Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania.

While students will always need to think critically and ask the right questions, emerging in this new world is the need for a skill set we call 'knowledge in action,' a kind of athletics of the mind aided by Internet-enabled devices, search engines, and pools of data from a wide variety of outlets...But imagine that you're Googling "vaccine autism" ... (more)

According to new research, adults who have Asperger's syndrome are at a much higher risk of experiencing suicidal thoughts than the rest of the public.

Writer/Producer Robin A. Borakove always felt different than many of her friends and family members.

Thomas Greene Wiggins , an African American born a slave in Georgia in 1849 and who used the performing name Blind Tom, was perhaps the most successful concert pianist of the 19th century: touring America and Europe as a child, an adolescent and an adult, playing the White House and being written about by such expressive concertgoers as Mark Twain ... (more)

A Boca Raton family already struggling with a special needs child is now left with no television, computers, broken kitchen appliances, and other damage after lightning hit their home Wednesday.

A hearing assessment program for at-risk preschool children will begin in the fall thanks to support from The Blue Ribbon Foundation of Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Asuragen, Inc. , a molecular diagnostic company using genomics to drive better patient management, announced today that it had received a clinical laboratory permit from the state of New York to offer Xpansion Interpreter, its reflex test for fragile X carriers and miR Inform Thyroid for use in the management of patients with thyroid nodules.

Lucie Dudgeon from Bridge Street, Lockerbie, said the proposals to be raised at the education committee tomorrow would raise awareness of the condition and "help hundreds of parents".

The camels are coming! Actually, they're already here. In fact, the current camel population in the U.S. is approximately 5,000 and predicted to increase.

As children develop and grow, their perception of the world alters and morphs. Their impression of right and wrong progresses, they develop a deeper understanding of empathy and their sense of danger and risk improves.

One of the worst forms of ethical negligence in the United States is the trend of parents forgoing vaccinations for their children.

There is evidence for some adverse events associated with routine vaccines recommended for children in the United States, although these events are rare, according to a review published online July 1 in Pediatrics .

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you would think that I spend a lot of time discussing autism spectrum disorders .

She was a terrible fit on "The View," but at least the presence of tight producer control and a diverse set of co-hosts kept her from spewing anti-vaccine views.

Heptares has solved structures across all major GPCR families providing platforms for wide-ranging structure-based and antibody drug discovery programmes Heptares Therapeutics, the leading GPCR structure-guided drug discovery and development company, announces the publication of a scientific article describing the first high-resolution X-ray ... (more)

Pregnant women who live near agricultural fields where pesticides are sprayed are at increased risk of having a child with autism, a study suggests.

"Call me crazy, but I hear things that torture me on an unrelenting basis that never, ever, ever shut up.