Experts clarify the link between screen time and autism
As conversations around autism and screen exposure grow online, doctors caution against oversimplified claims that screen time directly causes autism, ...
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Exercise and Blood Pressure; Maternal Occupation and Autism
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for ...
Getting diagnosed at 30: why many adults are only now discovering their autism
With increased awareness and access to resources, many adults are now looking back at their life experiences and realising that ...
Can AI help in the future of autism diagnosis and support?
Despite growing awareness, a vacuum still exists between properly diagnosing autism and helping parents raising a child with autism. This ...
Here’s Why Dozens of Autism Publications Were Retracted
(MedPage Today) -- Springer Nature has retracted more than three dozen publications that relied on a problematic dataset, the publisher ...
FDA finds little evidence that a drug touted by Trump can help people with autism
The Food and Drug Administation is approving a generic drug for a very rare genetic disorder, but not for autism ...
Study suggests Trump’s unproven autism claims influenced care
Last year, President Donald Trump promoted unproven ties between Tylenol and autism and touted an old generic drug as a ...
Autism Scientists Form Independent Committee to Counter RFK Jr.
(MedPage Today) -- Former NIH institute directors, autism researchers, and advocacy leaders established an independent board today to coordinate work ...
Large study finds no link between mRNA COVID vaccine in pregnancy and autism
Researchers tracked more than 400 toddlers to see whether mRNA COVID-19 vaccination during or just before pregnancy was linked to ...
Autism Trial Supporting FDA-Touted Drug Is Retracted
(MedPage Today) -- One of the largest autism trials of leucovorin (Wellcovorin), a drug used to treat cerebral folate deficiency, ...