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A warning was issued this week that up to 340 passengers on two Air New Zealand flights between Christchurch and Auckland, on March 2 and 4, could have been exposed to measles.

Crystal Fox of Tempe, Arizona tried to keep her two special-needs children in public schools.

ASD consists of a group of developmental disabilities that cause behavioral, communication and social challenges.

Vaccines do not cause autism. That was part of the message Wednesday during a symposium held at the University of North Florida.

ASD consists of a group of developmental disabilities that cause behavioral, communication and social challenges.

The UC Davis MIND Institute has been named an Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center , through a prestigious grant from the * Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health - a distinction held by only 15 neurodevelopmental centers nationwide committed to the ... (more)

Harper, R-Miss., was a co-author of the bill in the House. It passed the Senate Tuesday.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

Boys are at greater risk than girls for neurodevelopmental disorders like autism.

A hopelessly romantic OCD sufferer says she is unable to meet Mr Right because her illness means she is terrified of love.

The Nw York City Health Department is investigating an outbreak of measles in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx, after seven adults and nine children were diagnosed with the highly contagious infection.

Leonard Abbeduto, director of the UC Davis MIND Institute, announced that with the coveted designation as an Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, "We also become part of a network of 14 other centers that collaborate beyond what one center can do on its own."

Community Access Unlimited this past weekend staged a very special production, "The Tales of Beatrix Potter," a play written by a young man with Asperger's syndrome, a component of the autistic spectrum.

Since the late 1990s, doctors and public health officials have been battling the belief , fueled by a discredited study , that vaccines can cause autism.

Watching her daughter struggle to get through the day, one Westman mother is slowly being broken by the very system designed to protect them.

Social workers that provide therapeutic and other services to children and adolescents can expect to find some major changes in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition : in their placement within the DSM-5 , the conceptualization of the disorders, the criteria for the disorders, the elimination of disorders, and the ... (more)

Northampton Area High School sophomore Amanda Strohl, left, 15, of Bath, and Freedom High School senior Brittany Sloss, right, 18, of Bethlehem Township, Pa., unveil a painting during a presentation at the Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School on March 5, 2014.

The CDC defines health communication as "The study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual decisions that enhance health."

Cultural production of ignorance provides rich field for study. 'Proctor, a professor of the history of science at Stanford, is one of the world's leading experts in agnotology , a neologism signifying the study of the cultural production of ignorance.

With as many as 1.5 million Americans having some form of autism, including milder variants such as what used to be called Asperger Syndrome, many of those on the autism spectrum are also parents.