Risky alternative therapies for autism have little basis in science
James Coman's son has an unusual skill. The 7-year-old, his father says, can swallow six pills at once. Diagnosed with autism as a toddler, the Chicago boy had been placed...
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Risky alternative therapies for autism have little basis in science
James Coman's son has an unusual skill. The 7-year-old, his father says, can swallow six pills at once. Diagnosed with autism as a toddler, the Chicago boy had been placed...
Denying science and logic while trying to find meaning
Celebrities die in threes. The moon landing was a hoax. Climate change is a myth. And President Barack Obama? Not born on U.S. soil. Oh, how we love our conspiracy...
Mayo Clinic doubts autism-digestion link
A new study casts doubt on a commonly held but controversial belief that autistic children have more gut problems than their peers. The Mayo Clinic study, published Monday in the...
Shuellas keep a girl high-heeled and dry
Name: Shuellas What they are: Light, portable galoshes that come in black, yellow, hot pink and apple green designed to fit over fancy shoes in the rain. They come with...
Autism doctor: Troubling record trails doctor treating autism
Dr. Mayer Eisenstein comes across as a grandfatherly physician, a pat-on-the-knee practitioner who delivers babies at home and who's more likely to recommend chicken soup than an antibiotic. Warning families...
‘Miracle drug’ called junk science
Desperate to help their autistic children, hundreds of parents nationwide are turning to an unproven and potentially damaging treatment: multiple high doses of a drug sometimes used to chemically castrate...
‘Miracle drug’ called junk science
Desperate to help their autistic children, hundreds of parents nationwide are turning to an unproven and potentially damaging treatment: multiple high doses of a drug sometimes used to chemically castrate...
Doctors-to-be learn more than medicine
In the ceremony Friday at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, dozens of students, most of them in their first year of medical school, read letters and poems aloud. One...
A battle royal inside the body
Like a sleeper agent, the flu virus causes its damage from within, turning an organism's cells against itself. A single virus can hijack a healthy cell and transform it into...