Autism Spectrum Disorders News

Many parents use social media to seek advice about parenting and health care. New study findings suggest that expert advice on alternative sleep aids for their children may be hard to come by on these platforms.

The Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will shift from an in-person to a virtual format for 2020, organizer Healio LIVE announced.

Children whose mothers used cannabis during pregnancy are at a higher risk for autism compared with children whose mothers did not, according to a study published in Nature Medicine.

Online tools may be able to improve diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, according to results of a survey study published in PLOS ONE.

The FDA recently announced its approval of the cannabis-based Epidiolex, an oral solution to treat seizures in patients aged older than 1 year with tuberous sclerosis complex, a rare genetic disease that causes noncancerous tumors to grow in the brain and other parts of the body.

Practicing pediatricians have been using telehealth technology to communicate with patients who are not able to physically visit offices because of social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Infectious Diseases in Children asked Editorial Board Member Eugene Shapiro, MD, professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at Yale School of Medicine, if patients should pay the same amount for a telehealth visit as they would for an in-person visit.

Boston Children’s Hospital, once again, has claimed the top spot in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings for Best Children’s Hospital.

Children with parents who have a sibling with ASD are at a higher risk for ASD compared with the general population, according to the results of a study published in Biological Psychiatry.

Psychiatric control and discordant-sibling design studies did not support an association between prenatal antidepressant exposure and autism, according to results of a meta-analysis published in American Journal of Psychiatry.

An analysis of 2,152 children showed that screen viewing at age 12 months was associated with a “modest [but] notable” increase in autism spectrum disorder-like symptoms at age 2 years, though not an increase in ASD risk, researchers reported in JAMA Pediatrics.