Kristie McNealy, MD

Last week, I asked you to join my in supporting the Autism Science Foundation’s Recipe4Hope fundraising campaign.  Today I wanted to pass along a reminder that the campaign is still going on, and in the spirit of the campaign, I wanted to share my favorite holiday cookie recipe. Every year, for as long as I [...]

Solid medical research is the key to learning more about the causes of and potential treatments for autism. In my mind, the autism-vaccine question has been answered, and it is more than time to stop wasting scarce research dollars and move on to other avenues of research that stand to have an actual benefit for [...]

We already know that researchers are finding an increased incidence of autistic traits in preemie toddlers, and now a much larger study has found a high rate of positive autism screening tests in preemies at the age of two.  The new study, carried out at 14 hospitals in 5 states, studied babies born more than [...]