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Andrew Asch, 16, has autism, but his parents have tried not to limit his travels, which have included ski trips to Colorado and visits to the Jersey Shore.
By JANE MARGOLIES
For most people, family vacations amount to almost a right. But for those grappling with autism, travel is a trickier proposition. Still, there are families who are determined to hit the road.
By JENNIFER EGAN
What does it mean to be a manic-depressive child?
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New software has been developed that promises faster matches and — taking a page from human dating sites — details on animals' personalities to ease what can be a testy process.
By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS
India has become the first country to convict someone of a crime relying on evidence from a controversial brain scan test that produces images of the human mind in action.
By BENEDICT CAREY
Medicines most often prescribed for schizophrenia in youth are no more effective than older, cheaper drugs and are more likely to cause some harmful side effects, a study has found.
OBSERVATORY
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
A new study suggests that dinosaurs ruled the roost for some 135 million years not so much because they were superior to the competition, but because they were lucky.
OBSERVATORY
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
Tardigrades, creatures commonly called water bears, can survive in space, researchers have discovered.
THE BUSINESS OF GREEN
By MARK SVENVOLD
For years in the United States, wind-farm projects had stalled in the face of local political opposition. Then an entrepreneur named Peter Mandelstam came up with a new and energizing approach.
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Akira Endo, a Japanese scientist whose discovery of the first cholesterol-lowering statin drug helped extend the lives of millions of people, is one of five winners of this year's Lasker Awards for medical research.
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The okapi, an elusive animal that scientists say has not previously been photographed roaming in the wild, has been snapped by a camera in Congo.
By SARAH KERSHAW
Sharing is good, but researchers discuss if it can spin out of control for teenagers.
By GINA KOLATA
A study has found that surgery is no better than more conservative treatment to relieve knee pain caused by arthritis, but experts are divided about what effect the study and a similar one from 2002 will have.
By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D.
While women have been a major presence in medicine since the late-20th century, the field of urology remained an exception. But now, that field, too, is undergoing a gender transformation.
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
The memory of the attack on the World Trade Center remains an everyday reality for the people who were severely burned, and lived.
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR AND NICHOLAS BAKALAR
The first large-scale study of the consumption of nuts and popcorn shows no link between the development of, or complications with, diverticulosis.
By KEVIN SACK AND BRENT MCDONALD
Pharmacologists who believe salvia could open new frontiers for the treatment of addiction, depression and pain fear that its criminalization would make it burdensome to obtain and store the plant, and difficult to gain government permission for tests on human subjects.
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Paternal age seems to be tied to the likelihood of having children who develop bipolar disorder as adults, a large study reports.
CASES
By THERESA BROWN
A staff nurse tells her first experience with "Condition A," the sudden death of a patient.
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