Surprised so many parents refused swine flu shots for their children? About 40% according to a recent ABC-Washington Post poll. Half the parents the doctors are seeing these days don’t want the H1N1 vaccine for their kids, and the other half, can’t wait to get it, according to Perri Klass, a pediatrician with a regular column in …
Is Asperger’s a distinct autistic disorder that deserves its own place on the autistic spectrum? No. Not according to an expert panel charged with revising the upcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the bible of mental health workers in addition to health insurance companies. The panel wants …
Mercury exposure triggers autism? That hypothesis is starting to smell a little fishy… Austic children may actually have lower levels of mercury in their blood. Why? Probably because they’re pickier eaters and thus eat less fish according to a new study published online at the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. Researchers at …
So Baby Einstein’s parent company, Disney, is now offering refunds to parents who bought their supposed brain-boosting Baby Mozart DVDs and the like according to Saturday’s New York Times (No Einstein in the Your Crib? Get a Refund). Did any parent really and truly believe plopping their infant in front …
Is autism even more prevelant than we thought? By now we’re not suprised to learn autism is diagnosed in more children than in past decades (for no doubt a host of reasons – expanded criteria, earlier diagnoses, greater awareness, etc.). Lately we’ve been reading autism appears in 1 in 100 to150 …