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Autistic patients

Author/s: 
Louisa Lok Yee Man, Adeline Lacroix, Meng-Chuan Lai

Ensuring accessibility helps reduce missed health care for autistic people. Health care delivery should be adapted in light of autism-related sensory profiles. Tailored accommodations should be implemented for each autistic patient’s unique communication profiles and preferences. Health care encounters should be as predictable, clear, and unrushed as possible. Autistic people with intersectional (e.g., cultural, gender) identities often experience discrimination in health care settings, which should be mitigated.

Keywords 
autism sensory delivery of health care communication accessibility gender identity

The MMR Vaccine Is Not Associated With Risk for Autism

Author/s: 
Hviid, A., Hansen J.V., Frisch, M., Melbye, M.

What is the problem and what is known about it so far?

Many parents choose not to vaccinate their children because of worry about autism, even though the 1998 study claiming to show that children who receive the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine were at increased risk for autism was fraudulent. Low MMR vaccination coverage has led to measles epidemics, which can be deadly. Unvaccinated people who develop measles can pass the infection to babies who have not yet been vaccinated. Many studies have shown no link between the MMR vaccine and autism, but a criticism has been that they did not specifically examine whether MMR vaccination could trigger autism in specific groups of susceptible children.

Keywords 
autism vaccines MMR vaccine
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