Even more air pollution and autism risk findings

Air pollution. I'm pretty sure most people are aware of all the talk about air pollution these days and how the human body is not partic...

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Functional GI issues and autism: not just an accumulation of case reports?

I've taken my time in posting this entry specifically dedicated to  the paper by Virginia Chaidez and colleagues * which " puts to ...

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Maternal diabetes and offspring autism risk

The systematic review and meta-analysis reported by Xu and colleagues * caught my eye recently. Concluding that: " maternal diabetes wa...

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After Surgery, Do Patients Have Out-of-Pocket Costs for Follow-Up Visits?

Assuming a patient has insurance, the answer is generally no for a certain period of time... For a period of time after surgery, insurance s...

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