Are we over-diagnosing autism? The psychiatric debate

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The American Psychiatric Association sent shivers through the mental health community last week when it said it was re-examining its list of disorders and would be proposing a more narrow definition of autism, one that might exclude up to …
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Implementing Health Reform: Essential Health Benefits And Medical Loss Ratios

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On December 16, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a bulletin describing the approach that it intended to take to defining the essential health benefits (EHB) that individual (nongroup) and small group plans must cover under the …
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Overcrowding, lax screening and too few homes: Canada's foster care crisis deepens

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"We're now getting kids that are having mental health issues or substance abuse or were traumatized by violence," said Williams, who at age 60 is fostering two children under age two. The demands are often too much for parents who both work outside the …
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