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CDC vaccine advisers to vote on thimerosal in flu shots at first meeting of new panel
A newly posted agenda for next week’s meeting of the just-appointed group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for ...
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Art Goes Underground at Former Subway Storefronts in Murals From New Yorkers With Disabilities
The MTA has teamed with a nonprofit serving people with autism, Down syndrome and other special needs to display their work ...
RFK Jr.’s new vaccine advisers to discuss preservative wrongly linked to autism
A key vaccine advisory panel handpicked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to vote on a ...
Tallahassee business offers art classes and job training to young adults with autism
Big Bend Habitat for Humanity officially opened its new ReStore Tuesday on Tharpe Street after a year in the making. After the man responsible for a 2023 hit-and-run that killed a man was sentenced on ...
New CDC advisers will skip some expected topics and explore a target of antivaccine activists
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers meet next week, but their agenda suggests they’ll skip ...
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Autism and Failure: Understanding Its Impact and Reach
Failure can hurt, especially for individuals with ASD facing daily setbacks. Redefining failure as practice improves ...
I Was Diagnosed With Autism At 46 – Here Are 5 Things I've Learned Since
I’d always known I was different, but put that down to other factors. As I gradually got to learn more about autism and what ...
Genetic testing for children with autism and intellectual disabilities remains rare in Medicaid, despite guidelines
A new national study reveals that most Medicaid-enrolled children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or intellectual ...
Against the odds, nonverbal autistic Brookline teen gets accepted into MIT
The teen spent most of his schooling in classrooms where he was perceived to be intellectually disabled — a misdiagnosis that ...