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Autism Vox

May 9th, 2008

The Autism Treatment Subculture

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 […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 6 comments

April 13th, 2008

Vaccine Safety and the Scribble on the Wall

This past Friday, a government-appointed working group met for the first time to discuss research about the safety of immunizations. Federal health officials said that the meeting is not in response to the recent concession by the government that vaccines aggravated an underlying mitochondrial condition in 9-year-old Hannah Poling and led to symptoms of autism; […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 14 comments

March 13th, 2008

Further Questions about the Case of Hannah Poling

More commentary on the case of Hannah Poling by pediatrician Rahul Parikh, M.D., on Salon (March 13). As Dr. Parikh clearly states, the government’s concession does not say that vaccines caused Hannah to become autistic, but that her “underlying mitochondrial disorder” was “aggravated” by vaccines and “manifested as a regressive encephalopathy with features of […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 9 comments

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