"a gradual decline in recorded diagnoses of CFS/ME since 2001"?

The quote forming the title of today's post comes from the paper by Simon Collin and colleagues [1] ( open-access available here ) who,...

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ADHD in the UK

I don't want to keep you too long today but thought it worthwhile to bring the paper by Adrian Hire and colleagues [1] to your attentio...

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CFS/ME associated with pandemic influenza infection

" Pandemic influenza A ( H1N1 ) infection was associated with a more than two-fold increased risk of CFS/ME  [ Chronic fatigue syndrome...

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Canada and the autism prevalence rate (yet again)

" At the end of 2013, the prevalence among children born in 2006 was 1 case of autism spectrum disorder per 46 children or 215.77 per 1...

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Autism in the UK: levelling off?

A short post today based on the paper by Brent Taylor and colleagues * (open-access) adding to the considerable literature on the autism num...

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Canada and the autism prevalence rate continued

So, in my last post  this morning I was talking about the paper by Hélène Ouelette-Kuntz and colleagues * on the autism numbers game in vari...

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Canada and the autism prevalence rate

[Update: 01/07/13: Further discussion on this topic can be found here ]. The autism numbers game has been a long running discussion in many ...

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