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    I often hear parents say that they would move mountains to help their child thrive. But if you begin to suspect autism, what do you do? And how would you move mountains if the Appalachian mountains stood between your child and an autism specialist?

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    Emily Mevers: Where do modern medicines come from?

    Scientists around the world are racing to find treatments for debilitating conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, chronic pain, and drug-resistant infections, but there’s one problem. Finding a new drug is akin to the idiom “looking for a needle in a haystack.”

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    Georgia Hodes: How publicly funded research can alleviate 'a cold of the soul'

    “A cold of the soul” was the poetic term used by a 1990s Japanese advertising campaign to introduce the concept that depression is an illness. Since then, many cultures have accepted that mood disorders are biological, yet we still do not test for, diagnose, or treat these diseases the same way as other chronic health conditions such as diabetes or heart disease.

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