"Medical Conditions in the First Years of Life Associated with Future Diagnosis of ASD"

I rank the paper by Stacey Alexeeff and colleagues [1] ( open-access available here ) as being in the 'pretty important' category w...

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Autism, pregnancy maternal immune activation and vitamin D?

Today's post is a bit of a mash-up, drawing on two articles quite recently published in the peer-reviewed science domain. The first is b...

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FDA Warning For Sedation in Kids Under 3 Years and Pregnant Women

On 12/14/16, the FDA published a warning that prolonged or repeated sedation in kids under 3 years old and women who are pregnant during th...

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Germs Are Winning the Antibiotics Arms Race

When human scientists develop a new antibiotic to kill a germ... how long do you think it takes before germs develop a resistance to the ant...

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Prevalence of schizophrenia in China up: was Dohan (partially) right?

" The prevalence of schizophrenia in China has more than doubled between 1990 and 2010, with rates being particularly high in the most...

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Of vaccines and monkeys

A quote to begin: " These data indicate that administration of TCVs  [ thimerosal -containing vaccines]  and/or the MMR  [measles, mump...

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Adult outcomes following childhood psychiatric problems

A long quote to begin: " If the goal of public health efforts is to increase opportunity and optimal outcomes, and to reduce distress, ...

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