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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 […]
Last Sunday a group of experts on mitochondrial disorders met for a meeting in Indianapolis to discuss the case of Hannah Poling, whose underlying mitochondrial disorder was found to have been aggravated by vaccines, after which she developed symptoms of autism. A June 30th New York Times article announced the meeting and noted the case […]
So why are you hearing more about autism? According to Huliq News in a June 29th piece mentioning The Boy in the Window, a book by 66-year-old Barbara Coppo, whose autistic son, Kenny, is 29 years old, this is why:
Perhaps we are hearing more about autism in the news because there are more autistic […]
Ever since March when the government conceded that vaccines had “aggravated” a pre-existing mitochondrial disorder and led to symptoms of autism in a 9-year-old girl, Hannah Poling, whether there’s any link between mitonchondrial disorders and autism has been under questions. Is there a “subpopulation of mitochondrial autism“?, Hannah Poling’s father, Dr. Jon Poling has asked. […]
Charlie and I started the week on the West Coast, visiting my family (and Charlie missing his dad so much he tried to walk back to New Jersey)—came back on a red eye Tuesday morning and he was back in school on Wednesday. Meanwhile:
The Regression Question
Do some children seem to be autistic from the […]
After my son was diagnosed with autism in July of 1999 and we had started him in a home ABA program in September of 1999, and as we found ourselves spending more time with families with autistic children, and as we read more and more (in books, on the web) about autism, I started to […]
While the scientific evidence refutes a link between autism and vaccines, parents of young children can’t seem to stop worrying about this and (as a June 18th CNN story reports) are wondering: Should they vaccinate their baby? Should they space out the vaccines and have a child receive their immunizations for measles, mumps and rubella […]
Electrical pollution linked to autism in children?
Actually, you already heard of this latest idea about what causes autism here.
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Just as he announced that he would be addressing the House of Lords in the UK earlier this month (an event attended by 1 MP, 4 Lords, and some others), so journalist David Kirby has noted that he will be speaking in June at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island; New York University Law School; […]
On Sunday I posted about whether or not Jenny Mccarthy’s son is recovered or not.
In a transcript of McCarthy’s June 6 interview about her “autism crusade,” it’s as hard as ever to get the facts straight about what her son Evan has: Perhaps it is indeed not clear to either McCarthy or the various medical […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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