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Screen time in first year may raise autism risk at age 3
Large cohort study supports the need for guidance on screen time for children before one year of age.
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Augmented autism screening pays big dividends
New strategy boosts diagnoses in boys and Spanish speakers, study finds.
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Experts plead for more pediatric telehealth
“Telehealth has opened new avenues for these patients who otherwise have difficulty seeing specialists. This is a population of children who...
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Gene mutations may drive sudden unexplained deaths in children
Most of the genetic mutations were spontaneous and not inherited from the parents.
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Ophthalmologist who developed medical botox dies at 89
Four decades ago, Alan Brown Scott, MD, turned the drug, once a deadly poison, into a revolutionary treatment for obscure eye diseases.
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Genetic tests prompt therapy adjustments in children with epilepsy
Most tests were negative, but positive ones usually led to changes in medical management.
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New insights into psychogenic seizures in teens
Adolescents feel pressure to be the best at everything. “They wanted to be good in athletics; they wanted to be good in academics; they wanted to...
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Is mindfulness key to helping physicians with mental health?
“When we go into our state of deep rest in the meditation practice, which is two to five times more restful than sleep, it heals those stress...
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Record-breaking autism rates reported with new CDC criteria
Taken together, the data suggest efforts to raise awareness about autism are working, though researchers were quick to say much work remains.
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Short-acting opioids needed for withdrawal in U.S. hospitals, say experts
The short-acting drugs can complement methadone and buprenorphine to help patients get faster relief and help patients stay in the hospital to...
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Intranasal oxytocin for autism promising – then came the data
Perhaps the most important take-away from the study is that even if it’s safe, intranasal oxytocin as it is currently used doesn’t work and...