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excerpt:"
GREENFIELD, Mass.
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interesting
I've written a lot about autism
including temple grandin and horseboy
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fascinating piece
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excerpt:"
eople with autism, whose unusual behaviors are believed to stem from variations in early brain development, typically disappear from public view after they leave school. As few as one in 10 hold even part-time jobs.
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Fascinating. I work with people who are autistic and have several interviews and reviews regarding the topic.
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excerpt:"Although federal law mandates educational services for children with autism, there are virtually no support services provided once they become adults.
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great series
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Second of six part of a great series on autism
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Excellent piece and I say that as someone who has not only read and done interviews about autism but works daily with two guys with autism
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posted to the daily show-colbert report group
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Article first published as An Interview With Seth Mnookin, Author of The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear on Blogcritics.
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excerpt:"An epidemic of amnesia, as potent as one of the surreal plagues in Gabriel García Márquez's novels, seems to have hit our culture. It's not just aging baby boomers who are complaining about their lousy memories.
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fascinating piece
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great review - i am doing an interview on it.
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excerpt:"Getschow, who is 36 and has cerebral palsy, uses Medicaid to pay two part-time attendants to help him 43 hours a week. They do all the things most people take for granted: cooking, cleaning, shopping.
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I like the parts about halfway down where they talk about how the media dropped the ball in covering the alleged vaccine-autism link
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great piece
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I'm talking here about interviewing Seth and choosing questions
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interesting theory
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excerpt:"Like other persistent untruths—the belief that Obama is a Muslim, say—the endurance of these vaccine scares is due to multiple, interconnected causes.
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excerpt:"Disability rights advocates try year after year to convince lawmakers to close Texas' state-supported living centers — the large, institutional-care settings that have been targeted by the U.S. Justice Department for dangerous conditions.
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Thought this was interesting
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excerpt:"In The Mind's Eye, Sacks, 76, focuses on visual perception - the still-mysterious process by which the retina of the eye drinks in billions of photons each second and sends them to the brain, where they are somehow turned into our view of reality.
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excerpt:"Neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks has spent his career examining patients struggling to survive with a wide range of neurological conditions: Tourette's syndrome, autism, Parkinson's, musical hallucinations, Alzheimer's disease and phantom-limb syndrome.
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Interesting perspective on autism
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excerpt:"Shortly thereafter, Kai and I spoke on the phone about her experiences on the Biggest Loser.
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excerpt:"Shortly thereafter, Kai and I spoke on the phone about her experiences on the Biggest Loser.
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Published to the Daily Show/Colbert Group
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excerpt:"ionally shows very low cancer rates, Stein said.
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excerpt:"verly protective parents might be leaving a lasting impact on their child's personality, and not in a good way, a new study finds.
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i've been wondering lately if i have add or adhd so i'm among those wanting an objective test
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excerpt:"A new study by researchers at the University of Texas says there is no evidence to support the hard-to-follow gluten-free and/or casein-free diets that some alternative-medicine practitioners routinely recommend for children with autism.
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excerpt:"Researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and State University at Albany used questions like these, adapted and modified from measures used to screen patients for substance abuse disorders, to determine whether college students were addicted to indoor tanni …
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excerpt:"on't be shy about nibbling at the ears of a chocolate bunny this Easter, because researchers have just given us another reason to eat this sweet treat.
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No Matter What, We Pay for Others' Bad Habits
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Hooray for this move
related story on mental parity
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excerpt:"Even without the new health care law, mental health advocates were getting ready to celebrate parity — a law requiring benefits for substance abuse and mental illnesses to be on par with benefits for medical illnesses.
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This could get very interesting
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excerpt:"It is easy shorthand. But it says more about the writer or speaker than it does about the deceased. We like to say that people "fight" cancer because we wrestle fearfully with the notion of ever having the disease. We have turned cancer into one of our modern devils.
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This is a movie about a teen I've worked with off and on since I arrived.
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excerpt:"The debate about health care in recent months has focused on the shortcomings of the reform proposals.
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Good piece asking a lot of the right questions.
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Excellent piece
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Long in coming but i'm glad they finally made this official.
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excerpt:"On February 6 at 8 p.m. (ET/PT), HBO will premiere an original film based on the inspirational true story of Temple Grandin, starring Claire Danes.