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...study, presented last Wednesday at the International Meeting for Autism Research in Philadelphia, found that women who had taken ovulation-inducing drugs, either orally or through injections, were at almost twice the risk of giving birth to children who develop autism compared to women who had not taken any fertility drugs. The risk of autism increased with the time the mothers underwent such fertility treatments...
Using data from the Nurses Health Study II, the researchers analyzed almost 4,000 women, looking for women who took OID before their first pregnancy whose children developed autism and adjusting for age of the mothers, pregnancy complications, and other autism risk factors...
...This a very complex question, and we’re just beginning to get information,” Davis said. “We need to tease out whether [the autism risk] is associated with the age or the mother or father, or genetic risk...
...report written by Harvard Lecturer Joshua Humphreys and issued by the Center for Social Philanthropy at the Tellus Institute suggests that the “higher-risk, higher-return” manner in which the University invests its endowment has worsened the financial crisis...
...report, titled “Educational Endowments and the Financial Crisis: Social Costs and Systemic Risks in the Shadow Banking System” states that university endowments that engaged in high-risk investments “played a role in magnifying certain systemic risks in the capital markets...