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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. 


Three Georgia mothers say their daughters went from happy, playful girls to children struggling with anxiety and rage overnight.

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Khimani, Kynza & Abadía-Barrero, César & LaRusso, Maria. (2024). Implementing dietary changes with children affected by PANS/PANDAS. Children’s Health Care. 1-19. 10.1080/02739615.2024.2338763. 64.7% of the 467 survey participants indicated that […]

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.

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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 […]