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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...
...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...
...meeting, held in San Francisco on Monday, the AAP released two reports: one aimed at helping pediatricians recognize autism spectrum disorders - in all their varieties - by age 2 and the other at providing guidance for early intervention. At the same time the AAP formally recommended that all pediatricians routinely screen for autism at ages 18 months and 2 years and announced it was making a new "toolkit" of diagnostic information available to all its members - for about...
...flier she handed me was the biggest scare I received all night. Entitled “This Was Your Life,” it depicts, in cartoon form, a man going to his final judgment. All his actions replay on a giant screen. One image shows a woman walking by. The man is lurking behind a wall. “Ummm nice!” he says. “But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart,” states the Biblical...