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There’s been plenty of debate about whether or not there is an epidemic of autism; about whether or not the increase in the prevalence rate of autism (now 1 in 150) is due to our being better able to diagnose and count cases of autism, or whether there is some actual something that can be […]
After a lot of hesitation about riding his new bike, Charlie hoisted himself up, put his left foot on the left pedal, put his right foot on, and zoomed off with Jim easily catching up—that’s the image in my mind after a full week here.
Parents Going Back to School
Some parents of autistic children are returning […]
In an op-ed entitled Foul Shots in yesterday’s New York Post, Robert Goldberg charts what could be called the rise and fall of the MMR vaccine. The MMR was developed by microbiologist Maurice Hilleman, “saved millions of lives around the world,” and—in one press conference in 1998—was said to be linked to digestive problems in […]
Is there an autism epidemic and why does it matter if there is, or isn’t?
Do you show you’re “aware” with a car magnet, a wristband, a ribbon?
More from last week:
New Findings on Genetic Link Between Autism and Mitochondrial Disease
Researchers at Medical Neurogenetics have found that there may be a genetic link between autism and mitochondrial […]
It’s April, it’s Autism Awareness Month, and last week saw the inaugural World Autism Day on April 2nd, and there were a whole lot of autism stories in the news——and there’s still three more weeks to go.
This April has some added significance for me: It’s Charlie’s last month of being 10 years old as his […]
So it seems that Senator John McCain has made his entrance into autism politics: At a town meeting in Texas today, McCain said that “‘there’s strong evidence’” that thimerosal, the mercury-based preservative, is responsible for the rising numbers of autistic children in the US. Writes Jake Tapper on Political Punch on ABC News:
McCain was […]
The past two weeks featured a week of autism on TV profiling Amanda Baggs and DJ Savarese. We enjoyed a very lowkey Thanksgiving and then a very interesting week, as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her autism plan and the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee met on November 30th, last Friday. Here’s the highlights:
Drinking During Pregnancy Linked […]
It’s how you play the game.
David Kirby, on the other hand, persists in wanting to debate about whether or not vaccines or something in vaccines can be linked to autism, as he writes in the November 30th Huffington Post. The Autism-Vaccine Debate: Anything But Over begins with a boldface statement.
Memo to those who wanted […]
A new study about ADHD in the November 12th Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the brains of those with ADHD mature “normally” but at a different (as in a delayed) rate. The New York Times ran an article on November 13th, Bad Behavior Does Not Doom Pupils, Studies Say, in which […]
Autism is being overdiagnosed, says conservative thinker Thomas Sowell in Crusades Versus Caution, Part II, in which he suggests that the recent call for universal autism screening of children aged 18 to 24 months will lead to unnecessary alarm among the parents of young children. Sowell, a fellow of the Hoover Institute, writes that parents […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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