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We began the week with Monday in Manhattan and ended it with dinner and a walk across the Hudson River. Inbetween:
Simon Baron-Cohen on “Disorder,” “Cure,” and Autism
Says Baron-Cohen: “The word ‘disorder’ is too negative. I use the word “condition” – autism can be disabling, but not all of its features involve disability. Some of […]
Over at Salon on his blog sWell blog, physician Rahul K. Parikh deconstructs David Kirby’s September 24th presentation to Congressional staffers. The presentation’s title was “The Vaccine-Autism Debate: New Developments from Science and Policy” and the PowerPoint slides and a write-up are posted on the Age of Autism weblog. Sullivan has been posting […]
A September 25th press release announces that parents make donations for cutting-edge research. Specifically, some parents have made contributions totaling $30,000 to the National Autism Association (NAA), whose website proclaims “think autism think cure. Some of the research to be funded will be conducted by gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield, the British doctor whose article in the […]
Vaccination rates for children in the UK are still not at a high enough rate to offer maximum protection against infectious diseases such as the measles and mumps, today’s Telegraph reports. According to the NHS, 85% of children have received the MMR shot this year, the same rate as last year:
experts warn that to achieve […]
As reported today by ABC15-Scripps Howard News Service : More than 135,000 kindergarten students nationwide are attending school without being vaccinated for potentially deadly diseases like measles, mumps and rubella.
In a review of the recently published book, Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, Rahul Parikh, a physician […]
Back in July, a study on chelation as a treatment for autistic children was put on hold due to safety concerns. Now the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has called off the study, as reported in today’s Associated Press.
The statement says the agency decided the money would be better used testing other potential […]
“Fear of autism is perfectly reasonable.”
Well, I guess it could be construed as such. But not really.
The above sentence is from a September 15th article on Babble—”the magazine and community for a new generation of parents”—by Kate Tuttle, with the title of Compulsory Vaccination. The article presents a capsule history of vaccines and resistance to […]
At the risk of being repetitive: Be sure to get your feedback in to the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC). Send in what you think about comments about autism services by September 19, and also your comments about the draft of the Strategic Plan for ASD Research by September 30.
Also, you can go here […]
An article in the September 10th New England Journal of Medicine entitled Recurrent Rearrangements of Chromosome 1q21.1 and Variable Pediatric Phenotypes describes the associations between a microdeletion at 1q21.1 and impairments including mental retardation associated with microcephaly, cardiac abnormalities, or cataracts. A microdeletion at 16p11.2 is associated with susceptibility to mental retardation or autism and […]
The September 9th New York Times has an editorial on the new study refuting an MMR-autism link:
The new study adds weight to a growing body of epidemiological studies and reviews that have debunked the notion that childhood vaccines cause autism. The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the C.D.C. and the World […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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