Last Week’s Top Posts

Charlie and I found ourselves in the pool every day last week and he got in two rounds of bowling.

In today’s USNews and World Report, Nancy Shute reviews a number of recent studies on genetics, including the study published this week in Science. She also discusses why a clinical trial of chelation could provide parents with the “good information they desperately need in making choices about treatments.”

• More Unfriendly Skies
  4 children, 2 disabled, Southwest Airlines.
• What’s Medically Necessary?
  Parents, insurers, schools, who pays?
• Chelation Study Put on Hold
  Citing safety concern, the NIMH puts the study on hold.
• Hans Reiser and the Asperger’s Defense: Troubling
  The “geek defense” and a troubling case
• Asymmetry in Infants and the Crab Crawl
  A new test for detecting autism early?
• Just a Few Pages But It’s A Start
  A book and a boy with a sense of humor
• Chicken or Egg: What’s Behind the Increase in Autism?
  Which came first, the “autism diagnosis” or autistic people?
• Acetaminophen Use After Vaccination Linked To ……
  ………you guessed it! Autism.
• An Evolving Understanding: New Study About Autism Genes
  Multiple genetic causes for autism? A different gene mutated in each child?
• About Repetitive Learning and Developmental Stages, and Swimming
  The new genetic study and why early learning is so important