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Archive for August, 2009

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 [...]

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 provide [...]

Are more rich kids autistic?

Friday, August 28th, 2009

That is the question researchers at the University of Wisconsin studied in a recent paper in the Wisconsin Medical Journal: Socioeconomic Disparity in the Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Wisconsin.

The brief report looked at the data used in the 2002 CDC prevalence study that reported 1 in 150 children are diagnosed with autism in [...]

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 [...]

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