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April 3, 2024
When Infection Sparks Obsession: PANDAS and PANS
When Angela Tang’s teenage son came down with a baffling illness, few households could have been better equipped to deal with it. The family lives in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb. Both parents are...
March 29, 2024
PANDAS Family granted insurance coverage after 4th attempt
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - After three denials of insurance coverage of a misunderstood disease, a Mt. Juliet family just learned the good news: BlueCross BlueShield has agreed to three months of...
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...
February 29, 2024
The Intersection of Mental Health and the Immune System – Exploring new avenues of diagnosis and treatment in mental health care.
The Intersection of Mental Health and the Immune System – Exploring new avenues of diagnosis and treatment in mental health care. Psychology Today By: Sheilah M. Gauch Sheilah hits...
February 22, 2024
Lowenthal Brings Back Pans/Pandas Bill After Governor Vetoes It
"Long Beach’s state assembly representative, Josh Lowenthal, earlier this month introduced AB 2105 in Sacramento. It would provide health insurance coverage for an inflammatory brain disorder that...
February 10, 2024
‘My brain is making me do this’: Family fights for insurance coverage of brain disease caused by strep
WSMV 4 By Lauren Lowrey Published: Jan. 24, 2024 at 6:37 PM EST|Updated: Jan. 24, 2024 at 7:44 PM EST NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – A little-understood disease could be...
February 10, 2024
Loudoun parent is hopeful that new legislation will bring insurance coverage for PANS/PANDAS
Loudoun parent is hopeful that new legislation will bring insurance coverage for PANS/PANDAS By KAREN GRAHAM kgraham@loudountimes.com Louden Times, Feb 7, 2024 “Virginia parents of children...
February 10, 2024
Va. commission to review mandatory insurance coverage for “devastating” childhood disease
"The legislation from Del. Patrick Hope, D-Arlington, would have applied to both Medicaid and private insurance as a way to lower the treatment costs for PANS/PANDAS, a disease scientists believe...
February 3, 2024
Winter 2024 Update from Stanford’s Immune Behavioral Health Research Program
Exciting Update from Stanford’s Immune Behavioral Health Research Program which is expanding understanding of PANS, uncovering links between infections, inflammation, and psychiatric symptoms....
September 28, 2023
How common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children: And why many doctors do not realise it
It was a sunny day in September 2007 when Garrett Pohlman, then seven years old, came home from school. Crying, he warned his mother that radiation was coming out of the house’s electrical sockets....
May 12, 2023
Call for psychosis treatment overhaul after evidence of autoimmune trigger
The Guardian. Hannah Devlin. Fri 12 May 2023 10.26 EDT Patients to be treated with medicines used for arthritis and lupus in relaunch of pioneering UK trial “These antibodies stick...