http://mycareclinic.com/wp Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:19:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This article focuses on both medical and non-medical costs of autistic children through adulthood. The numbers are staggering.   http://mycareclinic.com/wp/?p=13 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 ... http://mycareclinic.com/wp/?p=11 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 ... http://mycareclinic.com/wp/?p=10 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 ... http://mycareclinic.com/wp/?p=8 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 ... http://mycareclinic.com/wp/?p=7 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 ... http://mycareclinic.com/wp/?p=5 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. http://mycareclinic.com/wp/?p=4 We Care 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 ... http://mycareclinic.com/wp/?p=3