Adapted by MNT from original media release Finding suggests therapeutic target for slowing progression of the disease New research by investigators at the University of Massachusetts Medical School suggests the immune system plays an unsuspected and surprising role in the progression of Rett syndrome, a severe neurological disorder affecting children. Immune cells known as macrophages are unable to perform their normal function and are instead amplifying the disease. The finding, recently published in Immunity, points […]
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As More With Autism Near Adulthood, Clues To Success Emerge
By MICHELLE DIAMENT What’s the biggest predictor of success for individuals with autism in adulthood? Researchers say it might not be what you’d expect. The ability to do everyday, self-care activities like bathing, cleaning and cooking trumped other factors like symptom severity and intellectual functioning, according to findings from a new study being presented this week at the International Meeting for Autism Research in Salt Lake City. Researchers looked at the experiences of 152 people […]
Hawaii’s $205M ObamaCare system on life support, critics fear ‘complete waste’
By Malia Zimmerman Published May 15, 2015 FoxNews.com HONOLULU – Federal taxpayers dumped more than $205 million into Hawaii’s ObamaCare insurance exchange, but after a steady downward spiral the once-highly praised Hawaii Health Connector is on life support. The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has already restricted grant funds to the Hawaii Health Connector, after telling officials in March it was out of compliance with the Affordable Care Act because of fiscal instability […]
Autism: A New Theory
BY JOHN J. CANNELL, MD It’s time to look at autism a new way – with a new theory. If the CDC’s worst-case scenario of a 12 percent yearly increase in the incidence of autism proves to be true, we will be in serious trouble in terms of caring for these individuals. Over the past 20 years, scientists have assured us that effective prevention and treatment of autism are just a matter of time. However, […]
My Physical Therapist and the “Iron Maiden”
LIVING WITH A DISABILITY BY JERRY LEVINSON I am told the use of the STS machine is therapeutic. So I will persevere. Like many other people with multiple sclerosis (MS), I use the services of a physical therapist (“PT”) to keep what’s still moving, moving. The MS Society touts physical therapy as an essential part of an MS Rehabilitation program. These programs focus on improving all levels of function that may have been negatively affected […]