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World Autism Awareness Day: What Do I Need to Know?
This Saturday, April 2, marks the eighth annual World Autism Awareness Day. Make sure you show your support by wearing blue. Many organizations and groups including Autism Speaks and the United Nations will honor the day. Around the globe, historic airports, bridges, museums, concert halls, restaurants, hospitals and retail stores will be marked with blue lighting in an effort to help raise awareness. Unfortunately, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in 68 children in the U.S. are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Boys are more likely to be diagnosed with autism, as they account for 1 in 42 cases, while girls account for 1 in 189 cases. At the bottom of this page we have included links to various organizations involved in autism awareness efforts. We hope that someday a cure or direct cause is discovered concerning this disorder, as many people who have autism suffer great…
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Trial Program Shows Potential to Reduce Birth Traumas
Recently, 14 hospitals joined together to enact safety procedures that could reduce birth trauma brought on by hospital mistakes. The early results are extremely promising, according to Susan DeVore, president and CEO of Premier Inc. Premier Inc. is a “performance improvement alliance” that coordinated the effort through its Premier Perinatal Safety Initiative. “What we see from the data is that there has been a 25 percent reduction in birth hypoxia and asphyxia, which can cause infant brain damage, a 22 percent reduction in neonatal birth trauma and for just these 14 hospital over just this short period of time, there have been 30 fewer babies that have experienced these harms,” DeVore said. Premier provided hospitals with a very thorough list of criteria for physicians to follow. One of the “bundles” established by Premier involved the use of oxytocin. Oxytocin is a drug used to slow labor, and it can lead…
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Epilepsy, Autism, ADD and Cerebral Palsy Often Coexist
New research from Norway finds a large overlap between children with attention deficit disorder/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD, or autism), epilepsy and cerebral palsy. Scientists in Norway studied more than 700,000 children and published the results online in Pediatrics on June 18. They found the most overlap occurring in boys age 11 and younger. Specifically, the researchers found that: 17 percent of autistic children had ADD/ADHD 11 percent of autistic children had epilepsy 6 percent of children with ADD/ADHD were autistic 5 percent of children with ADD/ADHD were epileptic 13 percent of epileptic children had cerebral palsy 8 percent of epileptic children had ADD/ADHD 6 percent of epileptic children were autistic “The findings demonstrate the significant burden of disease associated with neurologic and neurodevelopmental disorders in children, and that this burden is disproportionately skewed towards boys,” wrote lead researcher Pål Surén and colleagues in the report….
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