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Close, for a quilting/sewing bee taking in '50s rock classics as they stitched away at the Olive Branch Senior Center.

Scandi-drama The Bridge is known as much for the personal life of Swedish detective Saga Noren and her Danish colleague Martin Rohde as for its gritty monochrome crime scenes.

Ben Kirimli, 27, of Bexhill Road, St Leonards, spent seven days on the expedition, collecting more than A 2,000 for Autism Sussex.

The most common form of intellectual disability is caused by a mechanism which shuts of an associated gene, a new study finds.

In spite of misinformation, vaccines remain a safe, scientifically proven way to prevent disease, according to Dr. Margaret O'Dell.

Spaulding Rehab Hospital Cape Cod presents a free "Mondays in March" pediatric educational lecture series for parents, health professionals, educators and caregivers of young children.

Headlight Photo Jazlynn Eberling, 14, does her beadwork in preparation for the 49th annual Rockhound Round Up this weekend at the Southwestern New Mexico State Fairgrounds.

Dustin Hoffman, working alongside a 26-year-old Tom Cruise, won an Oscar for his role as an autistic savant in "Rain Man," from 1988.

I'm not her! Student with same name as 'spoiled' teen suing her parents is hit by internet trolls - but she uses opportunity to drum up support for charity USF student Rachel Canning received a barrage of hateful comments because she shares her name with New Jersey student suing her parents After receiving more than 30,000 visitors to her Facebook ... (more)

Elaine Hsiao is a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and biology at Caltech. She is currently studying the mechanisms by which microbes modulate host production of neuroactive molecules and aims to better understand how the human microbiota influences health and disease.

With 10 more preorders, Tennessee will be ready to launch a specialty license plate that will benefit local autism nonprofits.

Atypical development can be detected as early as 12 months of age among the siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder, a study published by researchers with the UC Davis MIND Institute and UCLA has found.

American journal of human genetics , Vol. 93, No. 2. , pp. 249-263, doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.06.012 Autism Spectrum Disorder demonstrates high heritability and familial clustering, yet the genetic causes remain only partially understood as a result of extensive clinical and genomic heterogeneity.

A couple of days ago I watched Othello for the first time. By chance, I had never seen or read it before.1 But that Shakespeare.

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Thomas Kienzle reports for the Associated Press on a study which found public health campaigns touting vaccines' effectiveness and debunking the links between autism and other health risks might actually be backfiring, and convincing parents to skip the shots for their kids .

Parents who prefer not have their children vaccinated are posing a major health problem, researchers now say, but show little sign of changing ways.

Close, for a quilting/sewing bee taking in '50s rock classics as they stitched away at the Olive Branch Senior Center.

A new economic analysis of the childhood immunization schedule shows it will prevent 42,000 early deaths and 20 million cases of disease, with a savings of $13.5 billion in direct costs and $68.8 billion in total societal costs in a single cohort.

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There are roughly 54 million people in our country with disabilities of all types, and surveys show the rate of unemployment for this group is twice that of the overall workforce.