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National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day is May 9th National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day raises awareness about the importance of caring for every child’s mental health and reinforces that […]

Jane E. Zebrack, Jaynelle Gao, Britta Verhey, Lu Tian, Christopher Stave, Bahare Farhadian, Meiqian Ma, Melissa Silverman, Yuhuan Xie, Paula Tran, Margo Thienemann, Jenny L. Wilson, Jennifer Frankovich,  Prevalence of […]

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 […]

Such a victory!’ Insurance denied a ‘life-saving’ treatment for their son, so a TN family found another path to coverage
Cigna denied a treatment called IVIG that had been helping treat their son for PANDAS, a condition that can include a sudden and extreme change in personality, tics, abnormal movements and rage.

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 […]

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.