Reporters covering truancy often conclude that poor students and students of color who skip school do so because they don't care about education. But many of the students want to go to school but can't for a variety of reasons.
West Virginia children with autism would have a much easier time getting treatment under legislation passed Thursday by the House of Delegates.
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A good friend of mine read my recent posts about Andrew Wakefield and the controversy over whether vaccines have any role in causing autism and asked me whether I was concerned for my safety.
Serious depression is a growing problem for multicultural seniors. But unlike older whites, ethnic people 50-plus are blocked from treatment by poverty, limited or no insurance, lack of programs geared for them—and the stigma of mental problems that permeates many cultures. New America media senior editor Paul Kleyman begins his occasional series on mental challenges for ethnic seniors with this article on treatable depression.
One of the main groups involved in Andrew Wakefield’s vaccines-cause-autism scare was called JABS.
The letters stood for Justice Awareness and Basic Support. It billed itself as the “support group for vaccine-damaged children.” A jab, in British parlance, is the same as a shot in the US. And the group was focused on jabs from vaccines as the cause of autism and other disorders.
Health writers too often take patient stories at face value and don't ask for medical records.
Anyone who has written about a topic as emotional as autism knows that patients and their families can be both invaluable and unreliable.
Health care, education, politics, and pride take a back seat when you have no shelter.
