In treating children with autism, physicians should focus on involving parents in a shared decision making partnership and seeking safe, evidence-based, and medically and cost-effective treatments.

Evaluation of an autism curriculum for pediatric residents yielded significant short-term gains in residents’ objective and self-assessed knowledge of autism spectrum disorder diagnosis and treatment.

Little-known trivia about the use of bones, tissues, and organs from donated bodies.

Media coverage of a sympathetic person's illness experience can trigger changes in public opinion and even public policy.

Efforts to meet the demand for organs have long had disproportionate effects on members of particular races, not only because of disparate levels of need for transplants but because of the way our donation system works.

Andy Levine's postage stamp design highlights efforts to raise visibility and increase awareness of the need for organ donation.

Readers are referred to an article by Reg Green in a 1995 issue of JAMA to consider the experience of health care from the patient's perspective as told by the father of an organ donor.

There is evidence that some complementary and alternative treatments improve physiological abnormalities in autism and thus hold promise for improving symptoms.

Because many complementary and alternative medicine therapies for autism are based on misguided notions of its cause and lack support from scientifically sound studies, physicians should steer parents away from these practices and toward safe, effective, and evidence-based interventions.