PANS/PANDAS Treatment brought our daughter back
My daughter has always been anxious & a worrier, and we had attributed that to her learning struggles & severe food allergies. However, no matter these struggles, she always,...
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May 24, 2024
Urgent call for 2024 AAP Red Book® to update strep testing recommendations.
ASPIRE and other PANS/PANDAS organizations are joining the PANDAS Physician Network in their efforts to call to the Academy of Pediatrics to update the Red Book’s® recently published...
May 17, 2024
Mother desperate after insurance denies son’s treatment for coverage with serious brain disease
KCTV5 By Sharon Chen Published: May. 17, 2024 at 9:51 AM EDT|Updated: May. 22, 2024 at 3:48 PM EDT “IVIG is intravenous immunoglobulins or immune cells that go in and...
April 25, 2024
Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers:
The evolving evidence of the impact of inflammatory disorders and metabolic conditions, like PANS PANDAS, on mental health conditions is discussed in the latest issue of The Economist....
April 22, 2024
Georgia doesn’t treat this devastating diagnosis in kids – How families are navigating care
Three Georgia mothers say their daughters went from happy, playful girls to children struggling with anxiety and rage...
April 3, 2024
Birmingham, Alabama Chit Chat Meet Up
ASPIRE ChitChat - Birmingham, Alabama - Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 6:30 PM...
April 2, 2024
Montgomery, Alabama ChitChat Meet Up
ASPIRE ChitChat - Montgomery, Alabama - Monday, May 6, 2024 - 6:00 PM CDT...
April 2, 2024
Toolkit – PANS/PANDAS Guidelines for Children with Autism
ASPIRE’S Professional Advisory Board publishes PANS/PANDAS Guidelines for Children with Autism PANS PANDAS & Autism Autism PANS Guidelines Children who have autism spectrum disorder (ASD or...
March 21, 2024
‘He’s falling apart’
Family enters final fight for son’s ‘life-saving’ treatment WSMV4 by Amanda Hara. Published: Mar. 21, 2024 at 5:35 PM EDT Another story about the cruel bureaucracy of insurance. A child...
March 13, 2024
Grand Rounds – Children’s Minnesota – Neuroinflammation in Children: Breaking Down Silos of Care?
GRAND ROUNDS – Register Today Children’s Minnesota will host a one-hour pediatric grand rounds presentation featuring Eyal Muscal, MD, MS. – Neuroinflammation in Children: Breaking...
March 2, 2024
Teen Mental Wellness Day
Today, March 2nd, is World Teen Mental Wellness Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness about the mental health challenges faced by teenagers around the globe. ASPIRE celebrates the resilience...
February 29, 2024
Rare Disease and PANS/PANDAS
What does Rare Disease Day mean for PANS/PANDAS? In the PANS world, we say that PANS/PANDAS is not rare; it is just rarely diagnosed. One of the problems of perpetuating...