The Republican opposition in Congress has put that number on the impact they say health care insurance reform will have on employment. The law’s proponents say that figure is way off target. The real effect will likely depend o…
Having an autistic child can present seemingly nonstop challenges for families. Among those are thousands of dollars spent in the hopes, fleeting as they may be, of finding a cure for the exasperating illness. And lining up a q…
Aside from the embarrassment, researchers know deceptions like the autism research fraud can have much larger consequences, both for the parents of autistic children and for the future of their studies. Says one prominent scien…
The 1998 study linking the MMR vaccine to autism has been utterly debunked. So 13 years later, how many lives have been lost and how much money has been wasted treating the preventable illnesses that fear-mongering led to? Here…
Jared Lee Loughner, the disturbed young man charged in this weekend’s massacre in Tuscon, highlights the physical dangers that individuals with untreated mental illness pose to society. But the financial costs of mental illnes…