How to promote the MMR vaccine
Rather than stressing its benefits, health promotion campaigns for the MMR vaccine should emphasise the protection that is lost by fai...

Stealth Autism
An op-ed in today s Herald-Leader (Kentucky) refers to autism as fast-spreading. It was not until it touched my own family tha...

5th Grade Yearbook
Charlie is in his last year of elementary school and will be moving onto middle school in a few months. A survey for the Fifth Grade Ye...

New GFCF Resources on About.com
While we're waiting for the results of a huge five-year study of a gluten-free, casein-free (GFCF) diet to come out of The University o...

Don t Go Back to Northvale?
So is there an autism cluster in a certain town in New Jersey which just happens to be the state with the highest prevalence rate...

History Lessons
I m preparing to teach a class in Roman History, which meets for the first time tomorrow, Tuesday. We ll start ab urbe condita fr...

More on Autism Genetics and Genetic Testing
The January 28th AMED News reviews the recently published studies on the genetics of autism, about deletion and duplication of chromoso...

One in 150 children in the United States has Autism
I do not know about you, but that statistic from the Department of Education about autism really surprised me. I was also surprised tha...

Looking Ahead: CT Pilot Program for Autistic Adults
We put a lot of energy into birth to 3 and somewhat through the teen years, but depending on when they graduate, they fall off the e...