This week in medicine

Courtesy The Lancet Blog  Thu, 04/02/2009 - 10:15

The following will appear in the April 4 issue of The Lancet : 

Autism acknowledged With April declared as Autism Awareness Month, the US National Institutes of Health’s US$60 million award from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support research into autism spectrum disorders is warmly welcomed.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one in 150 children in the USA have autism.

Violence in Darfur An aid worker employed by the Canadian...

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