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...Here's the bigger problem: hiding money underneath the mattress risks making the financial system less efficient. And withholding investment from the stock market will depress company valuations. In other words, "if trust has been significantly affected by the crisis," Howard Davies, director of the London School of Economics, said in a lecture last month, "it will have damaging consequences for investment and growth in the future." (See pictures of the financial crisis in London...
Experiments like these, presented at a recent conference at Columbia University's Teachers College, are helping researchers identify the signs of autism at ever earlier ages. For parents, says Stone, director of Vanderbilt's Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders, "the average age of first concern is 17 months, though a diagnosis isn't typically made until age 3. That's a long time to be concerned and not know what...
...American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that doctors begin screening babies for autism at 18 months, but researchers have yet to refine the tools for making a reliable diagnosis at that age. One issue, says Catherine Lord, director of the University of Michigan Autism & Communication Disorders Center, is that there is so much individual variability in how babies develop. Another challenge is that many of the signature signs of autism - delayed speech, repetitive movements or fixations on particular toys or objects - involve language and motor skills that babies have not yet acquired. That's why identifying the signs of autism before...
...Sunday that the WHO might soon raise its pandemic alert level from phase 5 to the highest stage, phase 6, which would indicate that a full flu pandemic was underway. "The virus has arrived, I would say, in most of the country now," said Anne Schuchat, interim deputy director for science and public health...
...unusual for the flu, or why this strain seems to be spreading at a time of year when the flu usually levels off. "These viruses mutate, these viruses change, these viruses can further reassort with other genetic material," said Michael Ryan, the WHO's global alert and response director. "So it would be imprudent at this point to take too much reassurance." (Read "CDC Readies Swine Flu Vaccine...