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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 doctors — Tang in internal medicine, her husband in infectious disease — and their son, a straight-A student well-liked at school, had been cared for by the family’s pediatrician since birth.

ASPIRE ChitChat – Birmingham, Alabama – Tuesday, May 14, 2024 – 6:30 PM CDT

ASPIRE ChitChat – Montgomery, Alabama – Monday, May 6, 2024 – 6:00 PM CDT

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 autism) are at risk […]

Residents of Tennesee, we need your help! This is the first year Tennessee has undertaken legislative efforts to pass a legislative mandate to secure insurance coverage for PANS PANDAS. SB2401/HB2484 and SB2402/HB2463 are insurance bills, one for state insurance and one for private insurance, that have been introduced in 2024.

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 coverage of an expensive transfusion, one that the family had already paid $16,000 out-of-pocket to receive.

Kinderlehrer DA. Inflammation as the Common Pathophysiology Linking Stress, Mental Illness, Autoimmunity and Chronic Disease: Implications for Public Health Policy. J Biomed Res Environ Sci. 2024 Mar 28; 5(3): 242-255. […]

Poster: Enuresis as a presentation of Paediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcus (PANDAS) Author: Ying Xin Wong, Ubhi Tim Presented: The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Annual […]

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 […]

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 Down Silos of Care? Date: […]

Aubry A, Corvilain E, Ghelfenstein-Ferreira T, Camelena F, Meignin V, Berçot B, Le Goff J, Salmona M. Unmasking Bartonella henselae infection in the shadows of long COVID thanks to clinical […]

Aftab Ahmed, Fatima Bint Sajid, Zaib Un Nisa Mughal, Wajeeha Binte Sajid, Abdul Haseeb, PANDAS coexisting with gastrointestinal and cerebellar manifestation, Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health, Volume 2, […]