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Would you trust this New Age healer, Dragan Dabic, to treat your autistic child?
Hopefully not—–he’s Bosnian Serb leader and war crime fugitive Radovan Karadzic, Europe’s most-wanted man who was captured on Monday.
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Will there be a run on this in the wake of this sort of testimony:
“This is the stuff that really made Evan excrete yeast and start talking more.”
This is “the stuff”: Threelac Original Defense Probiotic.
This is the source.
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In the July 14th Nature is an article about the NIMH chelation study that was put on hold due to safety concerns. NIMH director, Thomas Insel, M.D., says that, due to children being involved, and because the study “carries more than minimal risk and offers no demonstrable benefit to the participants,” it has been referred […]
Charlie and I found ourselves in the pool every day last week and he got in two rounds of bowling.
In today’s USNews and World Report, Nancy Shute reviews a number of recent studies on genetics, including the study published this week in Science. She also discusses why a clinical trial of chelation could provide parents […]
A study on chelation, a controversial biomedical treatment for autism, has been put on hold, today’s Associated Press reports. Chelation, in which heavy metals are removed from the body, is based on the notion that mercury in vaccines can be linked to autism; an autistic boy, Abubakar Tariq Nadama, died in 2005 after receiving chelation […]
If you’re interested in listening in on a meeting of the Strategic Plan Workgroup of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) under the Combating Autism Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-416), go to the end of this post.
For the past several months, insurance—as in having insurance companies pay for treatments for autistic children—-has been a regular […]
Don’t know about you, but summer has so far been anything but slower-paced and lazy around here. A friend who’s also an academic likes to say that he got into “the business” for the three-months summers: guess I take after Charlie, though, and do better with the same old same old routine of things. I’ve […]
Tuesday morning Jim and I were interviewed for an autism documentary in the making. The director and his crew came to my office in Jersey City, which is in an old single-family house, with barely any space between it in and the neighboring houses (one of which contains my college’s mailroom). Jim and I were […]
Is animal assisted therapy really the cat’s meow? asks the June 2008 Scientific American and takes a hard look at the use of dolphins, dogs (whose benefits as therapy animals for autistic children have been more and more noted), and other animals (a topic also under discussion with the US Department of Justice):
To show that […]
A letter abstract in the June 22nd Nature Medicine is entitled Reversal of learning deficits in a Tsc2+/- mouse model of tuberous sclerosis. Tuberous sclerosis is a rare genetic disease that affects the central nervous system and causes benign tumors to grow on the brain, kidneys, heart, eyes, lungs, and skin. Those with TSC […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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