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A STUDY claims to have identified three maternal jobs that could raise the risk of a child’s autism. Published today in the ...

The creation of Tylenol as a brand name for the drug acetaminophen dates to 1955. Acetaminophen itself was first prepared in 1878, but it didn't receive widespread use until Tylenol's creation. The ...

Scientists have long tried to pinpoint the exact causes of autism. Researchers from NYU Langone Health explored maternal illness during pregnancy. rh2010 - stock.adobe.com Despite decades of extensive ...

1911 › Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coins the word autism to describe a tendency among some schizophrenics to wall off reality in favor of an inner fantasy life. 1944 › Johns Hopkins psychiatrist ...

In 1943, Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, identified autism as a separate disorder from schizophrenia in young children. Kanner called his newly identified disorder early ...