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		<title>$22 million grant to overhaul assessments in special ed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Kansas City Star: Researchers at the University of Kansas have received a $22 million federal grant to develop more effective tools for assessing the academic progress of students with disabilities. The grant is the largest in the school&#8217;s history. The goal of the work is to replace once-a-year assessment tests with mechanisms that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Sequenom exec pleads guilty</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/06/04/sequenom-exec-pleads-guilty-29679/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Says she lied to investors about prenatal DS test From a Los Angeles Times blog,  San Diego Union-Tribune, Business Week, Motley Fool: The former head of research and development at Sequenom Corp. has pleaded guilty to lying to investors and analysts about a company effort to develop a noninvasive prenatal screening test for Down syndrome. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discredited autism doctor vows to continue research</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 06:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Austin [TX] American-Statesman: Andrew Wakefield, the British doctor whose research triggered a worldwide vaccine scare, says he expects to lose his British medical license soon but intends to continue his research in Austin. In an interview, Wakefield said he is more convinced than ever that he was right to suggest connections between autism, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Novartis: Drug may ease Fragile X</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical company, disclosed in an interview this week that an experimental drug has brought about substantial improvements in the behaviors of people with Fragile X syndrome in a small clinical trial. The research involved only a few dozen subjects and has not been published or peer reviewed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middle-aged Americans report lots more mobility impairments</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/08/more-mobility-impairments-29090/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trend is troubling, experts say From HealthDay News/Business Week, RAND Corp. news release, Health Affairs: The proportion of Americans aged 50-64 who say they need help with personal care activities has increased significantly, according to a study by the RAND Corporation and the University of Michigan. The reason for the increase is not clear, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers: Down syndrome could unlock mysteries of aging</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/22/down-syndrome-mysteries-aging-28845/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[USA Today&#8216;s Liz Szabo writes that adults with Down syndrome are teaching scientists about the genetic roots of aging. Adults with Down syndrome are more likely than others to develop some health problems, like Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, while they are much less likely to be affected by others, like heart attacks, strokes and solid tumors. Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columnist asks: &#8216;Do toxins cause autism?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/25/kristof-autism-28635/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof examines the question of whether chemicals in the environment may be partly to blame for the proliferation of autism diagnoses across the country. He cites an article by Philip J. Landrigan, just posted online in the peer-reviewed journal Current Opinion in Pediatrics, that says the &#8220;likelihood is high&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discredited anti-vaccine doctor Wakefield quits autism center</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/18/wakefield-quits-28284/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Times, [UK] Guardian, Austin [TX] American-Statesman (blog): Andrew Wakefield, the discredited British doctor whose research triggered a wave of opposition to childhood vaccines, has resigned unexpectedly from the autism center he founded in Austin, Texas. The announcement comes only a few weeks after a British regulatory agency ruled that Wakefield acted dishonestly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: Lancet waited too long to retract autism-vaccine study</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/03/editorial-lancet-27634/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal says the Lancet&#8217;s retraction of Andrew Wakefield&#8217;s 1998 vaccine study comes &#8220;about 12 years too late.&#8221; The research paper, which purported to link vaccines with autism, launched a global vaccine scare, caused vaccination rates to plummet, and triggered waves of measles outbreaks. Even as overwhelming scientific evidence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lancet retracts autism paper; Editor says he was &#8216;deceived&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/02/lancet-retracts-autism-paper-27578/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Times,  [UK] Guardian, BBC, [UK] Telegraph: A leading medical journal has retracted a discredited research paper that sparked an international health crisis by claiming a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Lancet&#8217;s announcement follows a finding by a British oversight panel that Andrew Wakefield (above), the lead author of the 1998 [...]]]></description>
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