Latest Health Articles for Autism

• Minn. mother accused of starving disabled daughter

  article 2009-08-04  |  Author: Staff
  A Minnesota woman has been charged with starving to death her developmentally disabled 10-year-old daughter, who used a feeding tube to gain nourishment.In a complaint signed by a judge on Friday, Ludusky Sue Hotchkiss, 29, of Sandstone, was charged in Pine County District Court with second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter ...

• Neurologist, choir explore music's healing power

  article 2008-06-01  |  Author: Karen Matthews
  Noted neurologist Oliver Sacks has found common ground with the pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church: Both men believe in the healing power of music.Sacks, the best-selling author of "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," shared the church stage Saturday with the famed gospel choir ...

• Doctor of dead British autistic boy says he will treat patients after DA drops charges

  article 2008-05-08  |  Author: Dan Nephin
  A doctor who had been accused of causing the death of a 5-year-old autistic British boy through a controversial treatment said he plans to continue treating patients now that criminal charges have been dropped.Butler County prosecutors on Tuesday withdrew charges of involuntary manslaughter and related counts against Dr. Roy Kerry, ...

• Anti-psychotic drug use soars in UK children, too

  article 2008-05-05  |  Author: Lindsey Tanner
  American children are being under-treated?Experts say that's almost ...

• High rate of autism signs found in children born extremely prematurely, researchers find

  article 2008-04-02  |  Author: Lindsey Tanner
  A small study of toddlers finds that about one-quarter of babies born very prematurely had signs of autism testing wasn't done. But the results are provocative, suggesting that tiny preemies may face greater risks of ...

• Georgia parents who won vaccine settlement describe girl's decline after shots

  article 2008-03-07  |  Author: Mike Stobbe
  The parents of a girl who won a government settlement described how their hearts were broken as they watched their healthy, red-haired toddler transformed into an irritable, odd-behaving child after she got several childhood shots."Suddenly my daughter was no longer there," said Terry Poling, the girl's mother, in a news ...

• Study: Mercury from vaccines disappears quickly from blood

  article 2008-01-31  |  Author: Carla K. Johnson
  Mercury from vaccines seems to disappear rapidly from the blood, returning to pre-vaccination levels in one month, according to a small study of children, although it is ...

• Mother accused of suffocating autistic girl, 3, was having psychotic episode, doctor says

  article 2008-01-15  |  Author: Staff
  A mother was severely depressed and experiencing a psychotic episode when she suffocated her autistic 3-year-old daughter with a garbage bag, a doctor testified Monday at the woman's murder trial.Karen McCarron was haunted by thoughts that she was responsible for Katherine "Katie" McCarron's autism, defense witness Dr. Joseph ...

• Illinois mother says in taped confession she killed autistic daughter to `fix' her

  article 2008-01-12  |  Author: Staff
  A woman accused of killing her autistic daughter testified that she attempted to suffocate the 3-year-old with a pillow three days before she succeeded with a plastic garbage bag.Karen McCarron said Friday that she could not go through with it using the pillow. When prosecutor Kevin Johnson asked her how ...