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In The “Open Question” on Vaccines and Autism, CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson interviews Dr. Bernardine Healy, a former head of the National Institutes of Health and a member of the Institute of Medicine. Noting that Dr. Healy’s credentials “couldn’t be more ‘mainstream’”—no DAN! doctor she—Attkisson writes:
According to Healy, when she began researching autism […]
Autism Awareness Month 2008 ended Wednesday; here in my state of New Jersey, Senator Robert Menendez marked the closing of the month by unveiling the Helpings HANDS for Autism Act. The act calls for the creation of “autism navigators” to assist families in figuring out services; training for law enforcement and other primary responders; and […]
I was interviewed in the May issue of Working Mother magazine in an article by Jennifer Owens entitled The Quiet Struggle: From heartbreak to hope: moms of kids with special needs. The mothers in the article have special needs kids of varying diagnoses (some with autism) and ages (3 years old; adults). One mother […]
Health journalist Alison Rose Levy considers the “debate” about vaccines and autism in the wake of celebrity Jenny McCarthy’s recent appearance on Larry King Live. According to Levy in today’s Huffington Post, there is an “autism dilemma” afoot, in which parents of autistic children speak emotionally and from the heart about what they think (a […]
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 […]
In determining what causes autism, you would think that scientific evidence would have the final say. Just in the past year, there has been more and more evidence refuting a link between thimerosal and rising autism rates, and more and more studies pointing to a complex web of genetic factors in autism. And yet, again […]
This is my position on the vaccine-autism issue, as written in Newsweek:
Chew believes that vaccines had nothing to do with her son’s condition and she worries that all the vaccine attention detracts from the more-urgent needs of people with autism, who require intensive behavioral interventions and social services—the kind of help her son has received.
That’s […]
Charlie is on Spring Break this week; he’s been off from school for three days now and it’s already been clear how much he misses it, how much he needs the structure and familiar routines of school: Without these, he’s one small fish in a big ocean of time. He’ll be back in the classroom […]
It’s “highly educated parents” who are more likely not to have their children vaccinated with the MMR shot, today’s Daily Mail reports. So what kind of “education” are they getting, or following—-maybe an overdose of the course offerings on Google U?
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If you can remember back to before Thursday when Hannah Poling’s parents had their news conference and before every other autism news headline seemed to blare (not entirely accurately) “Government concedes vaccines linked to girl’s autism,” a few other things were being talked about this week: Senator John McCain’s misguided statements about “evidence” linking vaccines […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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