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Autism Research Today

Monday, August 31st, 2009

What is really important in autism research today? Believe it or not, the online world may give you a slightly skewed idea of what is really considered important. Dateline had a special tonight on Autism. I’ve stayed away from it so far, but I saw this additional material on the MSNBC website and wanted to [...]

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New research proposed for diet and autism

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

LBRB has a record of coming down hard on so-called complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). We support evidence based treatments and therapies. CAM is all too often an opportunity for snake oil merchants to rip off parents and potentially harm their children. It may be that some CAM interventions are beneficial. Properly conducted research may [...]

Tags: Autism, diet, research
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Interesting information in the National Children’s Health Survey

Friday, August 28th, 2009

The National Children’s Health Survey (NCHS) has a lot of data and I think it’s worth the time to see what sorts of questions and informtion we can get from it. I’ve already discussed data from this a number of times, but these are questions I don’t see other’s asking. The survey questions and the [...]

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Autism and dentistry

Friday, August 28th, 2009

I thought this was a good blog post: Autism and Dentistry: Dental Challenges for Families and Treating Dentists. By Darlene Oakley at empowher.com I don’t want to copy a lot of the post here—I’d rather send you there. One new and cool piece of information for me: I didn’t know about these two organizations: Special [...]

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