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...American Academy of Pediatrics raised a lot of alarms when it issued two new reports about early autism intervention and a recommendation that physicians screen for the disorder twice by age 2--rather than 3 or 4, the ages when autism diagnoses have typically been made. But is autism turning up earlier in childhood? Here's what the announcements really mean...
ROUTINE AUTISM SCREENING WAS RECOMMENDED LAST YEAR. WHAT'S NEW? Pediatricians are now being told to routinely screen all children--not just those with symptoms--for autism at their 18-month and 2-year checkups...
People will fall in love, on a TV or movie screen, with a creature they would gladly kill were they to find it in their kitchen. So audiences have cheered on Rodentia from Mickey to the aspiring chef of Ratatouille. So, too, with the social, saucer-eyed, erect-standing mongoose relatives of Meerkat Manor, who have followed in the paw prints of The Lion King's Timon to raise their species' star in Hollywood. The Kalahari nature show is Animal Planet's biggest hit, a saga of turf wars, sex, betrayal and cuddly pups. It's manna from TV heaven...
...shorter periods of time," says Dr. Daniel Brotman, director of the Hospitalist Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Brotman, too, believes an undeniable link exists between stress and heart disease. But given that most people cope with stress just fine, he says it's unrealistic to ask overworked doctors to screen every patient for an emotional condition that's common in modern life. "We say to ourselves as physicians, 'Well, there's not a lot I can do about the fact that your wife left you,'" Brotman says...
...recent decision to make almost all of its content free online. But newspapers in dining halls offer students something that an online newspaper cannot—a physical presence that can promote debate and discussion far more effectively than the somewhat isolating experience of reading the paper on a screen. It also allows students to browse and chance on stories they may have not seen otherwise in a way that the Web precludes. Students already read campus news on a regular basis in the dining hall; they should have similar access to the national news. We hope the administration will...