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1 week ago | 
statnews.com | O. Rose Broderick
Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. I had planned to make this box about a recent study that confirmed some birds form friendships. But as a lapsed Catholic who spends too much of her time watching college basketball (shout-out Xavier University), I am *thrilled* that we’re getting a pope who seemingly knows ball.
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2 weeks ago | 
statnews.com | O. Rose Broderick
SEATTLE — Michael VanPelt spent the spring glued to his telephone, dialing doctors who might be able to get his 3-year-old son in for an autism evaluation. The music teacher ran out of providers who took his health insurance, but luckily the New Jersey public school system provided him with an independent neurologist, who diagnosed his son with autism on April 3. VanPelt was thrilled.
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2 weeks ago | 
shorturl.at | O. Rose Broderick
SEATTLE — Michael VanPelt spent several weeks recently glued to his telephone, dialing doctors who might be able to get his 3-year-old son in for an autism evaluation. The music teacher ran out of providers who took his health insurance, but luckily the New Jersey public school system provided him with an independent neurologist, who diagnosed his son with autism on April 3. VanPelt was thrilled.
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2 weeks ago | 
autism.einnews.com | O. Rose Broderick
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3 weeks ago | 
statnews.com | O. Rose Broderick
Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. STAT’s illustrious biotech podcast, “The Readout LOUD,” published its 350th episode on Thursday! If you’ve never listened, now’s the perfect time to tune in. Alison, Adam and Elaine sing at the top of the pod. I heard they might get nominated for a Tony Award for the performance???
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3 weeks ago | 
statnews.com | O. Rose Broderick
The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, a Department of Health and Human Services official said in a written statement Thursday. Instead, the official said, HHS will launch a $50 million research effort to understand the causes of autism spectrum disorder and improve treatments.
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3 weeks ago | 
statnews.com | O. Rose Broderick
Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Happy Thursday. I saw Lucy Dacus perform last night. What an evening!Ok, on to the news. Last week, STAT’s Anil Oza reported that the Trump administration had targeted a scientific journal for its editorial practices. That ire has now extended to one of the nation’s top medical journals, the New England Journal of Medicine.
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1 month ago | 
autism.einnews.com | Isabella Cueto |Tara Bannow |Anil Oza |O. Rose Broderick
WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the country will soon know what is causing a rise in autism rates, but there is little sign he has a team in place yet. Nearly two dozen prominent voices from mainstream autism research and in the anti-vaccine world said they have not been approached by Kennedy, and have no details about the proposed studies. On Wednesday, the health secretary appeared at a press conference alongside Walter Zahorodny, director of a New Jersey autism surveillance study.
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1 month ago | 
statnews.com | O. Rose Broderick
A new federal report suggests that U.S. autism rates are rising modestly, an increase that health researchers said reflected expanded diagnostic tools and access to care, among other factors. But health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. instead has pointed to the data as evidence of a growing crisis.
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1 month ago | 
autism.einnews.com | O. Rose Broderick |Tara Bannow |Anil Oza |Daniel Payne
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