This article focuses on both medical and non-medical costs of autistic children through adulthood. The numbers are staggering.

This article explores the impact on siblings of autistic children. It is written by a Texas Monthly author and focuses on the sister of autistic twins in Bastrop. Read the Texas Monthly Article As a parent, I expect it is fairly natural to consider the impact of autism on all the family and balance attention and support accordingly, but reading about one family's experience is a good reminder of the challenges our "other" kids face.

While CARE Clinics has been using genetic profiles for some time in helping prioritize an intervention protocol, it is exciting to see continued results from research in the link between autism and genetics. This article discusses a recent study and the findings relating to specific gene interaction.  Exciting progress!

Read the article. 

Despite all the wrangling and politicking, the much-anticipated Combat Autism Act has passed. The bill authorizes almost $1 Billion to be spent over the next five years on research and towards combating autism. Here is the news story from NewsWeek.

This was largely driven by parents and is a stunning example of advocacy and action in America.

Last summer the Senate unanimously passed a follow-up bill called the Combating Autism Act. It not only calls for a doubling of funds for autism research, but also for autism screening, surveillance and early intervention programs in all 50 states.

Autism groups supported the broader NIH bill when it passed the House. They hoped, in turn, the sponsor of that bill, outgoing House Energy and Commerce Chairman Joe Barton of Texas, would help push their autism bill. But that hasn’t happened. Now some leading voices in the autism advocacy community, including radio host Don Imus, have had harsh public words for Barton.

There is still a long way to go in having this bill funded in a way that directly helps autism. Do not be shy in letting your opinion be heard with your representative.
To read or listen to this story on NPR please click here

Although parents of severely affected children have long suspected a link between toxins in the environment and the brain-related conditions of their children, this story from ABC.com, and elsewhere, draws a direct link between not only the more severe cases, but also the more pervasive conditions, like ADD and ADHD.

It is commonly accepted amongst parents and autism practitioners that there is a link between autism and heavy metals - mercury and arsenic being two of the most prevalent. This article brings the connection more into the mainstream, but also expands it as a theory for explaining other more pervasive brain and development issues in the current generation of our children.

This premise is what CARE Clinics is all about - identifying the level of toxicity and determining an intervention program that safely and effectively reverses the contamination - restoring the ability to begin developing more neuro-typically again.

A new study in the British Medical Journal Lancet suggests some form of autism may affect one child in a hundred.  Previous studies had thought the number to be more like four or five cases in 10,000.

Read the article on the BBC website.

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Autism is a complex/mutifactorial biomedical disease with psychiatric symptoms. It is called a developmental disability because it generally starts before the age of three, causing significant delays or problems in the way a child develops.

Care Clinics finds many new factors everyday in our children using today’s most advanced scientific methods.

We use testing panels for heavy metals, pollutants, infections (virus, bacteria, yeast) genetic predisposition (MTHFR, COMT, GSTM1, SOD2, NAT2, MTP, APOE, CBS, VDR, ACE, ETC.), and many others so that we now know better what to do to treat our children instead of relying on blind trial and error.

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We have no time to waste.

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