San Diego and members of the surrounding communities raised autism awareness and $90,000 for military children through the 3rd Annual ONEHOPE ACT Today! for Military Families 5k/10k Run/Walk and Family Festival, held on Saturday, April 6, 2013. San Diego, CA (PRWEB) April 12, 2013 It was such an amazing and inspiring day to see the San Diego community come together with military families in support of children with autism. Funds raised will help defray the out of pocket costs autism brings and help lighten the load our brave military families shoulder today, says ACT Today! executive director Nancy Alspaugh-Jackson. The ONEHOPE ATMF 5k/10k Run/Walk and Family Festival featured a flat, scenic course starting at Tecolote Shores Park in Mission Bay. Participants chose between the 5k, 10k (both chip-timed) or 1-mile Fun Run. The Family Festival following the Run/Walk was free for the entire community. It featured music by Tower XVI and 2-U-Neek, a wine and beer garden sponsored by ONEHOPE Wine and Stone Brewing Co., 35+ vendor booths and the Center for Autism and Related Disorders Kids Zone which included inflatables, carnival games, face painting, and arts and crafts. Event sponsors of the ONEHOPE ATMF 5k/10k Run/Walk and Family Festival … Continue reading →

ReneeDunnlearned a hard lesson about autism. Fortunately, for the Baltimore grandmother, the lesson didnt come too late, as the professionals at the Kennedy Krieger Institute were able to help her two-year-old grandson, Marcus, in his battle against autism. I was dumbfounded by it all, the only thing I knew about autism was the movie, Rain Man, Dunham said. Kennedy Krieger put us in a program called Jump Start because Marcus was non-verbal. But, it helped a lot and now hes verbal. As the nation observes National Autism Awareness Month, Kennedy Krieger continues to seek new ways to treat those with an autism spectrum disorder. Last year, Dr. Rebecca Landa, a study author and director of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders at Kennedy Krieger presented a new study of six-month-old infants who were at high genetic risk for autism, identified weak head and neck control as a red flag for the disorder. The study also looked at language and social developmental delays. Landa concluded that a simple pull-to-sit task could be added to existing developmental screenings at pediatric well visits to improve early detection of developmental delays. Research aimed at improving early detection of autism has largely focused on … Continue reading →

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Controversy has erupted at one of the most prestigious tournaments in professional golf. Tiger Woods, in the midst of his glorious comeback, has been accused of cheating and receiving special treatment by Masters officials after he was given a two-stroke penalty instead of disqualified for an illegal ball drop. Meanwhile, a 14-year-old kid from China -- the youngest player in Masters history -- was given a one-stroke penalty for "slow play." RELATED: Golf Is Having Woman Troubles Again On Friday,Guan Tianlang switched clubs before taking his second shot on the 17th hole. According to the rules, he had forty seconds to take the shot. He used fifty. PENALTY! Sorry, kid. Tianlang is now not only the youngest player in the tournament's history -- he's also the first to be assessed that slow play penalty, which was almost enough to put him below the cut for the tournament's third round. RELATED: The War on Women and Augusta National Many felt that Tianlang was unfairly singled out by Masters officials: Plus, pace of play is a horrific problem on tour and has been for years. But you're going to take your stand now? At a major? And against a teenage amateur from … Continue reading →

Doctors arent yet sure what caused Jackie Sansones stroke but a life-saving procedure by a team of local doctors has offered her a swift recovery. The 29-year-old pre-kindergarten teacher had gone home for lunch on Tuesday as she usually did. While driving back to work, she felt a twinge, her vision became blurry and she crashed into her apartment complexs security gate. At the time, she said, she thought she was going to die. I kept losing control over everything, said Sansone, whose right side and speech were affected. Sansone, a single mother of one, was airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. She remembers everything. I remember everybodys face and my sister looking at me. I wanted to tell her everything was OK but I couldnt say it, said Sansone. A team of four University of Miami/Jackson doctors immediately began to work on Sansone to make sure the stroke did not cause permanent damage. The doctors performed a thrombectomy, a procedure to remove a blood clot from the back of Sansones neck. Doctors went through the big artery in the leg, the femoral artery, to reach the blood vessel with the clot. The once controversial procedure, which … Continue reading →

Twelve years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, its successor made a big splash with one big number: Around 80 percent of the human genome is "functional," the researchers leading the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project said. Their claim drew immediate criticism from biologists, many of whom said it is evolutionarily impossible for so much of the genome to truly function for human health.Seven months later, the controversy continues. Several journals and countless blogs have published opinion pieces about it. Current Biology published its second essay about it April 8. And in late February the journal Genome Biology and Evolution published an unusually harsh takedown that got some attention for zingers comparing ENCODE to Apple Maps, which had a troubled launch with the iPhone 5. How could the meaning of one wordfunctionbe so divisive?Funded by the National Institutes of Healths National Human Genome Research Institute, ENCODE was designed to tackle the data generated by the NIHs Human Genome Project, which determined the sequence of chemical basesadenine, cytosine, thymine and guanine, the A, C, T and G sequencesthat make up human DNA. Some groupings of bases spell out a code to make specific proteins, which do much of … Continue reading →