Dr. Greene speaking about childhood diseases
    Childhood Diseases: What You Can Do to Change The Odds in Your Child’s Favor

    Dr. Greene's take on childhood diseases... When I was a kid, none of my peers had type 2 diabetes. I didn't know anyone with a life-threatening peanut allergy. The label ADHD was rarely used. Today mo…

    Autism Linked to Prenatal Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft?

    Autism diagnoses have increased rapidly over the last two decades; so has the number of women taking antidepressants during pregnancy ? from somewhere between 1% and 6% in the early 1990s to 7-13% mor…

    World Autism Day
    World Autism Day

    The General Assembly of the United Nations unanimously voted to set aside April 2 every year, starting in 2008, as World Autism Awareness Day. The day is to be marked around the globe with education r…

    Autism Detection: Look and See
    Autism Detection: Look and See

    All children should be screened for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) at the 18-month and 24-month well child visit, according to November 2007 guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which re…

    What’s in a Name?
    What’s in a Name?

    Whether or not babies respond to their names by their first birthdays can be an important clue to whether or not they will end up with autism or other developmental delays, according to a MIND Institu…

    New Pieces to the Autism Puzzle
    New Pieces to the Autism Puzzle

    Thanks to the largest and most ambitious scientific study to ever look into what makes someone susceptible to autism, we now have a new layer of understanding about this important condition. First, a …

    Autism and Inflammation
    Autism and Inflammation

    Autism and related conditions continue to become more common. Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability, increasing in frequency by more than 10 percent each year; this makes finding its …

    A Simple Home Test for Aspergers
    A Simple Home Test for Asperger’s?

    People with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) have a normal IQ, and may be unusually talented in a specific area. Nevertheless they may have a tough time 'fitting in' because of an inability to read social cue…

    The Autism Solution
    The Autism Solution

    "Someone snuck into my home and stole my one-and-a-half year old's mind, leaving his bewildered body behind." This is how it feels to have your son diagnosed with autism, according to Jon Shestack, vi…

    Early Clue to Autism
    Early Clue to Autism

    A powerful early warning signal for autism was proposed in the July 16, 2003 issue of JAMA. The symptoms of autism usually are not first noticed until children are already toddlers or in preschool. Th…

    Biggest Study Yet on MMR and Autism
    Biggest Study Yet on MMR and Autism

    Once the question was raised about whether the MMR vaccine might trigger autism in some children, even mounting evidence to the contrary had not put fears to rest. The vaccine rate has plummeted since…

    Autism on the Rise
    Autism on the Rise

    Can you trust statistics? Back in 1999, a report from California's Department of Developmental Services, concluded that the number of children with profound autism had grown from 2,778 in 1987 to 10,3…

    Children’s Environmental Health Research Centers Studies Effect of Toxic Exposures on Autism, ADHD, Hearing, Behavior, & IQ
    Children’s Environmental Health Research Centers Studies Effect of Toxic Exposures on Autism, ADHD, Hearing, Behavior, & IQ

    Current evidence tells us that DDT was responsible for a host of medical problems and the deaths of many children - but the link wasn't proven until more than 30 years later! (more…)…

    Autism Bacteria?
    Autism Bacteria?

    We now know that ulcers, once thought to be stress-induced, are often caused by a bacterial infection. What if autism where an infection? Ellen Bolte, a self-trained computer programmer and mother of …

    Revolutionary Test for Early Detection of Autism
    Revolutionary Test for Early Detection of Autism

    Autism rates continue to rise, as 1/54 children receive a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), up from 1/68 in 2010 and 1/150 in 2000. Part of this may be due to the fact that methods of autis…