‘He woke up an altogether different child’: Massachusetts families speak on living with PANDAS/PANS Wicked Local. By James Kukstis. Sep 24, 2020 Part one of our look into PANDAS/PANS Read...
For young children, an innocuous sore throat could be a sign of PANDAS (pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders), a condition that a Solana Beach-based doctor has been centering his practice...
Yale scientists may have found a cause for the sudden onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in some children, they...
"Yale scientists may have found a cause for the sudden onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in some children, they report. Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders, or PANDAS, were...
Stanford University researchers have discovered subtle structural differences in the brains of children with a rare condition that seemingly causes their personalities to change overnight....
Researchers may have gained new insights into a mystifying condition that causes children's behavior to change so severely and abruptly, it can be like they woke up as a different...
We thought we treated it appropriately. We followed the doctor’s initial recommendations for treating our son’s Lyme disease. He got a little better with the antibiotics but never went back to...
“I was so shocked I just took the picture because I didn’t even believe what I was seeing,” she said of a photo she snapped that went viral on social media. “It’s not an appropriate place...
One might think, because PANDAS/PANS strikes children, passing the bill would be a slam dunk, but Uttam said it’s failed twice in Massachusetts already. It has, however, passed in five other...
I’ve been talking a lot recently about my experience of having Paediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (an illness which, despite its name, affects adults too), and how I was undiagnosed...
OCONOMOWOC — Eliza Ellis should be taking her first steps into adulthood. Instead, the 19-year-old requires around-the-clock care in her Oconomowoc home. "Always thought that right after high...
Nursing considerations Nurses must educate patients and parents to monitor for any signs and symptoms of recurring infection, specifically GAS infection, in the patient or in any of the patient's...