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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 […]
That’s how Dr. Steven Novella refers to various alternative medical practices used by parents on their autistic children in the May 8th Neurologica blog. Among those practices is chelation, in which medications are administered to remove “heavy metals” from a person’s body and thereby to “detoxify” his or her system. Dr. Novella discusses […]
Charges have been dropped against Dr. Roy Kerry, the Pittsburgh-area doctor who was accused of causing the death of 5-year-old Abubakar Tariq Nadama, the Associated Press reports. Nadama went into cardiac arrest immediately after receiving chelation therapy in Dr. Kerry’s office in 2005. Dr. Kerry was charged with using the wrong drug and […]
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:
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Today’s Concord Monitor profiles Kathleen Seidel, who maintains the Neurodiversity.com website and who recently quashed a subpoena delivered to her by vaccine litigation lawyer Clifford Shoemaker. According to the article (and these are my sentiments exactly):
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Almost everyone had something to say about Autism: The Musical which can still be seen on HBO’s website. I’m wondering when someone will make Autism: The Comedy—enough already about “the tragedy of autism”!
Drinking While Pregnant Linked to Autism
Dr Maggie Watts, vice chairman on alcohol for the Scottish Association of Alcohol and Drug Action Teams, suggests […]
Children who wander away and are not able to find their way home, and who cannot tell someone who they or their parents are. This is a fear of parents of autistic children: Last Wednesday, 13-year-old Celeste Robinson, who is autistic, was missing for some 13 hours from her home in East Texas, the Typer […]
The first thing to keep in mind is that “classification” is not the same thing as a diagnosis.
So writes Andrew Tirrell, a lawyer with the nonprofit organization Advocates for Children of New York, in City Room on the New York Times website (March 17). Tirrell took questions from parents and readers about the rights of […]
“I don’t understand why it has to be so adversarial…..”Why can’t they listen to these parents and get a clue that maybe they have some merit?”
So Melissa Van Hook, who has two boys on the autism spectrum, says about the Gilbert School District in today’s Arizona Republic. Van Hook and a former special education teacher, […]
On January 17th, former pathologist Karen McCarron was ruled guilty on all counts in the suffocation death of her 3-year-old daughter Katherine (”Katie”) in May of 2006. Today’s Peoria Journal-Star reports that McCarron will have to wait three more weeks before her sentencing, as her attorney, Marc Wolfe, has asked for an extension.
Wolfe said Tuesday […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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