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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 […]
Tomorrow brings yet another chapter in the annals of the U.S. “Vaccine Court.” Nearly 4900 families have filed claims with the U.S. Court of Claims alleging that vaccines caused autism and/or other neurological problems in their children. Two 10-year-old autistic boys, William Mead and Jordan King, from Portland, Oregon, will serve as the test […]
Do childhood vaccines cause autism? (KSDK, St. Louis)
No.
Vaccinations do not cause autism.
Source. Source. Source.
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30-year-old Maria (not her real name) has a 6-year-old son who has autism—-and Maria faces deportation to Mexico. At 13, she came from there to the US on a visitor’s visa and attended public schools, got married, got divorced, has two children, and works full-time at a child-care center. The May 4th Austin America-Statesman reports:
Like […]
What do TV, ultrasounds, insufficient vitamin D, air pollution, a mother having the flu while pregnant, mercury, have to do with each other?
All have been named as possible causes of autism. TK Kenyon looks at the puzzling spectrum of research into the cause of autism, some of which he labels as “just plain stupid”—the theory […]
Whether or not to try biomedical treatments is a question that’s perhaps unavoidable for parents with an autistic child today. One hears constant, albeit anecdotal, reports of a child who has “recovered“; the publication of Louder Than Words: A Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism last fall by Jenny McCarthy further renewed attention on such […]
Thinking about long-term housing and job needs for my son and also the matter of a special needs trust and a will and one has those moments of thinking (yes, ridiculously), pity one can’t live forever……..
Maybe you’d rather not know this, but you can take a Vitality Compass quiz over at Blue Zones to find […]
The biggest measles outbreak—72 cases so far—since 2001 is occurring across the US, today’s Reuters reports. No one who has caught the highly contagious disease has died, but 14 people have been hospitalized, mostly with pneumonia brought on by measles.
The CDC said 64 cases were reported from January 1 through April 25 in Arizona, California, […]
The Spring semester is almost over at the college where I teach and “getting some kind of job” is the main response from students to the question “what are you planning to do this summer?”. And—it occurs to me on this last day of April with May and Charlie’s 11th birthday right around the […]
Teeth-brushing has been a skill on Charlie’s IEP for the past three years—-prior to that, I brushed his teeth or, rather, worked on teaching him to open his mouth and to tolerate having a piece of plastic and wiry bristles on his tongue and teeth. I started using an electric toothbrush for Charlie when he […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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