Many autistic people with a serious or life-threatening condition do not seek medical care, according to a new study. The most common health-care barriers include difficulties in communicating with physicians or making appointments by telephone. “For me, as a physician, to realize that patients are sitting at home with medically serious conditions, unable to access […]
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Edward Speidel has spoken to everyone he can think of to help get his 10-year-old son back into his Buffalo Public Schools classroom. It has been 22 months since the boy and other students had to study from home because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Other children have to go back, but because he cannot tolerate […]
Children’s Health Defense is offering a complimentary bus shuttle to this event at 10:00 AM at the Capitol in Albany, NY. Click here for all the details. Attorney spokesmanMary Holland, Child Health ProtectionKevin Jenkins, Global Urban Health InitiativeRev. Aaron LewisRita Palma, My children My choiceDonna Schmidt, New Yorker Against Medical MandatesSujata Gibson, Child Health ProtectionJohn […]
The AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium works with visionary partners across the educational continuum to create bold innovations. Take a look at our publications to learn more about the innovations that have emerged from transformative efforts in primary and higher medical education. Supplement for medicine teachers The work of the American Medical Association […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Hello and welcome to the community newsletter! I am your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, the engagement editor of Spectrum. We start this week with a paper on the strengths of autistic researchers by Aimee Grant, Senior Research Officer in Public Health at Swansea University, and Helen Kara, Honorary Senior Research Fellow […]
July 16, 2021 Six weeks before her first baby was born, Julie-Anne Butare’s prolonged, painful labor was referred to as “bad luck” because her body showed no other signs of imminent birth. But all bets were gone just days later. In June 2020 JulieAnnes broke water while the occupational therapist was at Medical center of […]
By Anne Dachel On June 8, 2021, in a completely one-page article in Rochester, NY, WXXI Radio once again destroyed the whole idea that the mumps-measles-rubella vaccine (MMR) is particularly dangerous for African Americans. WXXI went to this one named after the latest movie online Medical Racism: The New Apartheid, and, as usual, experts queued […]