Hot Topics - Diseases and vaccines - Behavioral disorders, chronic disability

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Diseases and vaccines - Behavioral disorders, chronic disability

March 1-7, 2004

►March 6, 2004 - Move to Florida Began Tailspin for Mother and Daughter - The Ledger - "It was the frigid weather and high rent in New Jersey that got Valerie Lowe thinking about a move to Florida...As a single mother caring for a daughter with profound cerebral palsy, Lowe, 41, said she couldn't afford $850 a month for a two-bedroom apartment in a decent part of town...Not while working as a sales associate for Old Navy...Lowe loved her job, so after asking her employer to be transferred to a sunny, Florida location, she wound up at Lakeland Square mall...That was August 2002, and the beginning of Lowe's tailspin into joblessness and welfare."

February 23-29, 2004

►February 24, 2004 - MRI Study Sheds New Light on Attention - UC Davis Health System via Newswise 

►February 26, 2004 - Focused instruction can help kids with dyslexia - Research suggests specialized training exercises stimulate brain areas previously thought to be 'broken' - Newsday

February 16-22, 2004

none selected this week

February 9-15, 2004

►February 12, 2004 - Test fails the needs of many special students - Standard Democrat via http://news.mywebpal.com

►February 9, 2004 - Brain Scans Being Used to Study Dyslexia - Scientists Are Looking Inside Children's Brains to See if They Can Learn More About Dyslexia - AP via ABC News

►February 10, 2004 - Agencies struggle with state on behalf of developmentally disabled - Sun Sentinel

January 26 - February 8, 2004 (2 weeks combined due to illness)

none selected this week

January 19-25, 2004

►January 25, 2004 - Brain chemical suspected in hyperactivity - Chicago Tribune

Comment:  If true, while it is all well and good to identify a brain chemical associated with a behavior disorder, it is at least equally important to figure out why that brain chemical exists in the brains of those with the disorder.  If there is an external/environmental cause, i.e., something that can be avoided, determining what that is should be of paramount concern.

►January 20, 2004 - Paying Attention To Parents Of ADHD Kids - New Study Reinforces Importance of Testing Parents of Kids Who Are Diagnosed With Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Washington Post

January 12-18, 2004

►January 18, 2004 - Children with disability at risk of victimisation - Sunday Herald, UK - "Children who suffer from conditions such as autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) could be wrongly caught up in the criminal justice system as a result of the Scottish Executive’s Anti-social Behaviour Bill...According to the proposed law, anti-social behaviour is anything that is likely to result in the alarm or distress of a third party, but the campaigners warn that certain repetitive or unusual behaviour by children with autism or ADHD could be misinterpreted to mean exactly this."

►January 6, 2004 - The symmetry of schizophrenia - (requires registration) - BioMedNet Magazine - High-resolution mapping of brain areas that are altered in schizophrenia has highlighted regions associated with language and personality. The results lend support to a theory that schizophrenia might be the evolutionary price we pay for language.

►January 14, 2004 - Can popping fish-oil pills stop this tantrum? - Since a compelling experiment was shown on the BBC's Child of Our Time last week, sales of Omega-3 supplements have rocketed. But, asks Ian Sample, are behavioural problems so easily solved? - The Guardian, UK

January 5-11, 2004

►January 7, 2004 - Immune System Attack Tied to Birth Defects - A new study bolsters the case for folic acid supplements in women of childbearing age. - HealthDay Reporter via www.healthcentral.com

►January 10, 2004 - County considers tax raise - The News-Gazette - "The Champaign County Board is expected to decide later this month whether to put a proposal on the November ballot to enact a countywide tax of up to 10 cents per $100 of assessed valuation to provide services for the county's 1,700 developmentally disabled residents."

Comment:  This sort of thing can be expected to become commonplace given the burgeoning disabled population.

►January 7, 2004 - Immune System Attack Tied to Birth Defects - A new study bolsters the case for folic acid supplements in women of childbearing age. - HealthDay Reporter via www.healthcentral.com

►January 7, 2004 - New Picture of Rare Childhood Disorder - Brain scan of boy with hyperplexia provides new insight - HealthDayNews via Dr. Koop - "The first use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the brain of a boy with a rare disorder called hyperlexia is described in a Georgetown University study in the new issue of Neuron...The case study of a single child revealed the neural mechanisms that underlie hyperlexia. The findings suggest hyperlexia is the true opposite of the reading disability dyslexia."

►January 8, 2004 - Parents facing a difficult choice; Say they will fight to keep gov’t aid for their disabled children - Citizen Online - "Without the Katie Beckett waiver giving the family eligibility for Medicaid, DiMartino said she said her family would essentially be broke..."We want our son to be with us forever," she said as tears welled up in her eyes. 'I want to take care of my son. It would be very hard to do without the safety net of the Katie Beckett waiver.'...However, budget cuts at the state Department of Health and Human Services may jeopardize the current eligibility requirements, leaving many families without access to Medicaid."

►January 5, 2004 - Study reveals teachers' attitudes about having chronically ill children in the classroom - JAMA via www.eurekalert.org - "Teachers have an overall positive attitude about having children with chronic illnesses in their classrooms, according to an article in the January issue of The Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals."

►January 2, 2004 - Brain Scans Reveal Physiology of ADHD - journal article (Psychiatric News)

►January 1, 2004 - Low dose radiation in infancy may affect intellect - BMJ via www.eurekalert.org

►January 2, 2004 - Scans 'may damage infant brains' - Doctors have been urged not to use powerful CT scans to assess possible brain injuries in young infants. - BBC Health News

►December 23, 2003 - Does the risk of cerebral palsy increase or decrease with increasing gestational age? - journal article (BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth)

December 29, 2003 - January 4, 2004

►January 3, 2004 - Glossary - Glossary Some of the more common mental illnesses found in children: - Rocky Mountain News

►December 30, 2003 - Can strep throat cause behavior disorder? - Some say more research needed, but others say problem is rare but real. - Austin American-Statesman

►December 29, 2003 - Schools accused of criminalizing disability - Discipline leading to lawsuits - The Houston Chronicle - "The Herzogs and Spring Branch officials will not discuss the lawsuit, but advocacy groups say such incidents indicate a disturbing attitude by many school administrators toward behaviorally disabled children...They say some administrators use school police to dodge the time-consuming processes dictated by the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which requires specially trained teachers and a separate program for each disabled child...'This is a major problem,' said Richard Lavallo, attorney in the Austin office of Advocacy Inc., which Congress created to protect the legal rights of the disabled."

►December 28, 2003 - Lifesaving clues found in drop of baby's blood - Expanded testing of infants pays off - Chicago Tribune - "Had Noah O'Connell been born four months earlier, his brain probably would have begun to disintegrate from a genetic defect that turned food into poisonous wastes...But he was spared mental retardation and possibly early death because of Illinois' recently expanded newborn screening program that picked up his disorder in time for him to be put on a brain-saving diet."

 

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