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iPads may help boost speaking skills in kids with autism
2014-07-03 07:37:54| Biotech - Topix.net
Your hands, fingers, head and eyes are at greatest risk for injury if you set off fireworks at home, a doctor warns.
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MEGA Brands and Mattel to present more than $70,000 in donations to Autism Speaks Canada
2014-05-27 22:58:48| Toys - Topix.net
Executive Director of Autism Speaks Canada, Jill Farber, accepts a donation from Robert Goodwin, Executive Director of the Mattel Children's Foundation, and Bisma Ansari, Vice President of Marketing at MEGA Brands Inc., at the Montreal Walk Now for Autism Speaks Canada fundraising event on May 25, 2014.
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Environment as important as genes in autism, study finds
2014-05-03 22:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Environmental factors are more important than previously thought in leading to autism, as big a factor as genes, according to the largest analysis to date to look at how the brain disorder runs in families. Sven Sandin, who worked on the study at King's College London and Sweden's Karolinska institute, said it was prompted "by a very basic question which parents often ask: 'If I have a child with autism, what is the risk my next child will too?'" The findings, published in the Journal of the...
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US autism estimate rises to 1 in 68 children
2014-03-31 00:32:38| Biotech - Topix.net
The government's estimate of autism has moved up again to 1 in 68 U.S. children, a 30 percent increase in two years.
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US autism estimate rises to 1 in 68 children
2014-03-27 23:53:25| Energy - Topix.net
Graphic compares prevalence in children with autism or related disorders since 2007; 2c x 2 1/2 inches; 96.3 mm x 63 mm; An Army soldier accused of strangling his pregnant wife so he could pocket $500,000 in benefit money was convicted Thursday by a military judge in a case that hinged on dueling medical experts who couldn't... An Army soldier ... (more)
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