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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

The final findings were published in 2003. Scientists say the rise may owe to several factors, including better diagnosis, older parents and genetics, The Wall Street Journal said. Thimerosal was removed from most vaccines in 2001 as a safety precaution. The CDC estimates that 1 in 31 8-year-olds nationwide had autism in 2022.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

It was in the mid-nineties, and about half of the patients that we cared for in the inpatient service were homeless. We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. We would admit them to the hospital. It felt like a moral injury.