{"id":206693,"date":"2025-02-18T19:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T01:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/potential-autism-breakthrough-as-three-year-old-boys-symptoms-are-reversed-using-cheap-drug"},"modified":"2025-02-18T19:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T01:03:34","slug":"potential-autism-breakthrough-as-three-year-old-boys-symptoms-are-reversed-using-cheap-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/potential-autism-breakthrough-as-three-year-old-boys-symptoms-are-reversed-using-cheap-drug","title":{"rendered":"Potential autism breakthrough as three-year-old boy\u2019s symptoms are reversed using cheap drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/potential-autism-breakthrough-as-three-year-old-boys-symptoms-are-reversed-using-cheap-drug.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A nonverbal autistic child said his first words after taking a cheap drug normally given to cancer patients.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Conner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/arizona\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Arizona<\/a> was diagnosed with autism at two-and-a-half-years-old after his mother noticed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-14167135\/Psychologist-reveals-common-traits-autistic.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> he hadn\u2019t started talking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After years of failed therapies and treatments, Mason\u2019s parents met with a doctor researching experimental new therapies for autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nonverbal autistic child said his first words after taking a cheap drug normally given to cancer patients. Mason Conner of Arizona was diagnosed with autism at two-and-a-half-years-old after his mother noticed he hadn\u2019t started talking. After years of failed therapies and treatments, Mason\u2019s parents met with a doctor researching experimental new therapies for autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}