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Leon Eisenberg, the psychiatrist and medical educator
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/this-day-in-jewish-history/.premium-1.735650 August 8, 1922, is the birthdate of Leon Eisenberg, the psychiatrist and medical educator who was one of the first physicians in the world to study autism scientifically. Eisenberg was as much a humanist as scientist, and as such, was an early advocate of using drugs to treat child psychiatric patients, with an eye…
Trump spent last 15 months promising policies that endanger and harm women
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Islamic Parents and Donald Trump
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