Most people picture autism as a behavioral condition. Rocking. Repetitive routines. Meltdowns in the grocery store. Those things can be part of the picture, but they tend to show up later. What researchers and clinicians have spent decades trying to understand is what happens much earlier, in the first year of life, when the real…
ast week, the Department of Justice laid charges against 15 individuals accused of defrauding Minnesota’s Medicaid program out of $90 million. According to the DOJ, the charges involve seven different Medicaid programs. The suspects allegedly billed the state for programs that were never provided and used stolen money on real estate, cars, jewelry and other expensive items….
ast week, the Department of Justice laid charges against 15 individuals accused of defrauding Minnesota’s Medicaid program out of $90 million. According to the DOJ, the charges involve seven different Medicaid programs. The suspects allegedly billed the state for programs that were never provided and used stolen money on real estate, cars, jewelry and other expensive items….
(Credit: Unsplash) This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Ms. NGO MAKONG MARTHE MYRANDE, a second year medical student at the faculty of health sciences university of Buea, Cameroon. She is affiliated with the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA), cordial partner of The Sting. The opinions expressed in this piece belong strictly to…
(Credit: Unsplash) This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Ms. NGO MAKONG MARTHE MYRANDE, a second year medical student at the faculty of health sciences university of Buea, Cameroon. She is affiliated with the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA), cordial partner of The Sting. The opinions expressed in this piece belong strictly to…
Authorities are searching for a woman with autism and social anxiety who went missing in Orange County over the weekend. Lien Thuy Nguyen, a Vietnamese-speaking woman, was last seen leaving a residence on foot around 6:40 a.m. Sunday in Fountain Valley, according to the Anaheim Police Department. Nguyen is known to take public transportation and…
Authorities are searching for a woman with autism and social anxiety who went missing in Orange County over the weekend. Lien Thuy Nguyen, a Vietnamese-speaking woman, was last seen leaving a residence on foot around 6:40 a.m. Sunday in Fountain Valley, according to the Anaheim Police Department. Nguyen is known to take public transportation and…
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A Valley thrift store is helping adults with autism find a sense of belonging while offering shoppers a way to save money. Seeds for Autism operates Garden of Treasures, a thrift store where all proceeds support programs for adults on the autism spectrum. The store sells clothes, toys and electronics. Trinity Washburn, a participant in…
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A Valley thrift store is helping adults with autism find a sense of belonging while offering shoppers a way to save money. Seeds for Autism operates Garden of Treasures, a thrift store where all proceeds support programs for adults on the autism spectrum. The store sells clothes, toys and electronics. Trinity Washburn, a participant in…
A new non-invasive brain stimulation technique known as accelerated continuous theta burst stimulation (a-cTBS) improves social communication at one month follow-up and has a favorable safety profile in children with autism, finds a trial from China published by The BMJ. The researchers say the findings suggest that a-cTBS may be “a viable and scalable therapeutic option…