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A summary of recent news coverage quotes from our experts.
“There is no one cause of autism… It’s just likely to be a complex mixture of things that happen at the right times that lead to having a diagnosis of autism later.”
– Rebecca Schmidt, Ph.D., a molecular epidemiologist and autism researcher at the UC Davis MIND Institute, in a syndicated September Factcheck.org story about claims on autism, Tylenol and folate.
“We just need to make sure that those of us who reject it (political violence) speak as loudly as do those who support it.”
– Garen Wintemute, M.D., director of the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program, in a September report on NPR’s All Things Considered after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
“We need to have something that is so safe that you can simply pick it up at your local pharmacy, bring it home and put it in your medicine cabinet.”
– Chemical neuroscientist David Olson, Ph.D., director of the UC Davis Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics, in the August NPR Up First segment “Can Psychedelic Therapy Go Mainstream?”
“…We felt that it was really important to do a randomized trial to see if reader studies are actually reflective of what happens in clinical practice.”
– Diana Miglioretti, Ph.D., ScM, division chief of biostatistics at the UC Davis Department of Public Health Sciences, in a September STAT News story about the first large-scale randomized trial in the U.S. to evaluate the effectiveness of AI in breast cancer screening interpretation. Miglioretti is co-leading the study.
“I don’t want to get everyone’s hopes up that this is a magic cure…It’s not for everybody.”
– Schmidt, in a September Nature online story “Trump team backs an unproven drug for autism — but does it work?” discussing leucovorin.
