Study shows California's autism increase not due to better counting, diagnosis

Thursday, January 8, 2009 - 12:07 in Health & Medicine

A study by researchers at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute has found that the seven- to eight-fold increase in the number children born in California with autism since 1990 cannot be explained by either changes in how the condition is diagnosed or counted — and the trend shows no sign of abating.

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