Wear blue today to show your support for the autism community. Tonight over 100 buildings around the world will be ‘lit up blue’ as part of an autism awareness effort by those in the autism community. So wear blue today and look for a blue Empire State building tonight! The odds are against you….if you [...]

According to MSNBC a person is newly diagnosed with Alzheimers every 70 seconds. While currently there are 5.3 million Americans suffering from the disease, in the year 2030 it is projected to be 7.7 million. Hypertension incidence among the African American population is said to be responsible for those individuals having twice as many cases [...]

Cellceutix Corporation (OTCBB: CTIX), a bio-pharmaceutical company has announced promising research results of a compound they believe will be used to treat autism. The focus is to find a compound that would act upon brain plasticity, serotonin levels and behavioral function as these are considered the criterion that must be affected to treat autism.   The [...]

Dementia patients will be tracked by GPS devices whenever they leave their homes under a new scheme to rescue them when they get lost, The Times has learned.  The device is to be fitted into the jewelry or clothing of elderly patients, whose movements will be monitored by satellite.   They will have access to a [...]

The US House of Representatives passed the Senate version of health-care reform. “The Autism Society is pleased that Congress took a step in the right direction late last night” said Lee Grossman, President and CEO of the Autism Society, “but we have much more work to do to ensure that families affected by autism have [...]

Over the span of the past few years multiple cases have been filed alleging that the MMR vaccine in combination with thimerosal caused their children to develop Autism.  Almost repeatedly the courts rule against the plaintiffs, ruling no link between vaccine and the development of autism.  Two such cases have come back favorably for the [...]

When we think of missing children normally we imagine someone kidnapping them. The fact is though, that many of these children unknowingly wander off. This is the case of 3 year old Victoria Bensch from Prescott, Arizona. On Feb. 22nd little Victoria was playing outside in her yard with her dog. Sometime that afternoon she [...]

The American Autism Society has been recognizing the month of April as National Autism Awareness month. Since the 1970′s it has done so in efforts to educate, and fundraise to subsidize research. It also spurs the medical community and elected officials into action to recognize autism as the epidemic that it is. We must be [...]

Currently there are over 5,000,000 people in the USA diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. That number will triple by 2050. Well over 50% of these people wander and become lost. A lost person with Alzheimer’s or other dementia represents a critical emergency. In most cases nearly half of them will die and many can become injured or [...]

According U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institute of Health, cardiologists can now get off the proverbial treadmill.  For many years now physicians have used the ‘Stress’ test, which entails the patient walking on a treadmill, for the evaluation of Peripheral Arterial Disease (P.A.D.) and other related issues. Now physicians, say researchers, can instead utilize [...]