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Massachusetts General Hospital creates program for adults with autism
Courtesy of a gift from a wealthy family affected by autism, Massachusetts General Hospital now has the means to create one of the country's first comprehensive programs providing specialized medical... Read more...
MA expands mental health coverage requirements
A new law has gone into effect in Massachusetts that expands existing limits on care for a new group of mental health disorders, sparking warnings from some observers that the price tag may be more... Read more...
Study: Mercury in vaccines doesn't hurt kids
A new study has come out that adds to evidence suggesting that a mercury-based preservative previously used in vaccines isn't harmful to children. The study tracks children who, in the early 1990s,... Read more...
Study: Correlation between rainfall and autism?
A study in 2005 of children born in California, Oregon and Washington state between 1987 and 1999 has found that there is a correlation between the amount of precipitation in those areas and autism,... Read more...
Study to follow children through adulthood, track illnesses
Federal scientists are getting ready to recruit for what may be one of the most ambitious studies ever in the U.S. The study, which will cost $2.7 billion, plans to follow 100,000 pregnant woman and... Read more...
As measles cases mount, officials blame fear of autism
Despite a seeming lack of sound evidence supporting their contention, a growing number of parents have come to believe that childhood vaccinations can cause autism. Officials now believe that a... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Autism parents focused on alleged vaccine link
While no one has found clinical evidence to support the notion, a large number of parents of autistic children believe that childhood vaccines had a role in their children developing the disease. In... Read more...
Schizophrenia glitches unique to each patient
According to an article in the Washington Post, a recent study found that "patients with schizophrenia are three to four times as likely as healthy people to harbor large mutations in genes that... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: AIDS vaccine back at square one; What's behind the FDA's low drug approval rating?; and much more...
> After trying and failing repeatedly to develop an AIDS vaccine, federal officials say they're going back to the drawing board to come up with some new ideas. Read more...
