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This week’s “Got Questions?” post is from Michael Rosanoff, M.P.H., Autism Speaks associate director of public health research and scientific review.
Yesterday’s announcement of the CDC’s new autism prevalence figures - 1 in 88 U.S. children More...
Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its estimate of autism prevalence in the United States to 1 in 88 children (1 in 54 boys and 1 in 252 girls). By comparison, this is more children than are affected by diabetes, AIDS, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, More...
Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its estimate of autism prevalence in the United States to 1 in 88 children (1 in 54 boys and 1 in 252 girls). By comparison, this is more children than are affected by diabetes, AIDS, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, More...
Testifying before House Appropriations Committee on March 29, Peter Bell, Autism Speaks executive vice president for programs and services, said the nation's autism community is growing increasingly impatient with what it views as an inadequate federal response to the "epidemic" of More...
Why are these numbers going up? Why is there such high variability across ADDM sites?
Improved detection of cases, as a result of better access to services and greater awareness of autism, may be contributing to the increase in prevalence.
Exposure to environmental factors that increase risk for More...
Why are these numbers going up? Why is there such high variability across ADDM sites?
Improved detection of cases, as a result of better access to services and greater awareness of autism, may be contributing to the increase in prevalence.
Exposure to environmental factors that increase risk for More...
NEW YORK, N.Y. (March 29, 2012) – Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, today called on the nation’s elected and appointed leaders to immediately develop a new, coordinated strategy to take on a national public health emergency – the More...
NEW YORK, N.Y. (March 29, 2012) – Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, today called on the nation’s elected and appointed leaders to immediately develop a new, coordinated strategy to take on a national public health emergency – the More...
The following remarks were delivered by Mark Roithmayr, president of Autism Speaks, at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta on March 29, 2012. You can follow him on Twitter @markroithmayr.Merriam-Webster defines the word epidemic as "Excessively prevalent. Affecting a More...
Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its estimate of autism prevalence in the United States to 1 in 88 children (1 in 54 boys and 1 in 252 girls). By comparison, this is more children than are affected by diabetes, AIDS, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, More...
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