March 26 marks ‘Purple Day’, a special day used to advocate and raise awareness for epilepsy. Around 10 million individuals ...

Purple Day, the international epilepsy awareness day, is today and it encourages people to wear purple and engage in ...

THE Appeal Court has cleared the way for the extradition of a Trinidadian man who is wanted in the United States on multiple ...

Shakespeare Martineau partner Lucy Haynes has been recognised for balancing the demands of a legal career with life as a ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by challenges in social interaction, ...

Families in East Renfrewshire have received over £17 million through the Child Disability Payment to support care for disabled children.

People with autism are typically diagnosed by clinical observation and assessment. To deconstruct the clinical decision process, which is often subjective and difficult to describe, researchers used a ...

Without clear and effective biological tests for autism based on genes, brain or blood measurements, diagnosis today still ...

In diagnosing autism – the developmental variant that affects around 80 million people worldwide – medical practitioners today put too much emphasis on a child's lack of sociability and not enough on ...

A drug typically prescribed for arthritis halts brain-damaging seizures in mice that have a condition like epilepsy, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Susan Senator is the author of numerous autism books; her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, among others.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a growing global concern, affecting approximately 2.8% of children in the United States and 0.7% in China. ASD is characterized by challenges in social interaction, ...