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A September 25th press release announces that parents make donations for cutting-edge research. Specifically, some parents have made contributions totaling $30,000 to the National Autism Association (NAA), whose website proclaims “think autism think cure. Some of the research to be funded will be conducted by gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield, the British doctor whose article in the […]
My office in Jersey City is in an old house, on the left-hand side of a one-way street going down a steep hill. Several of the buildings and some of the other houses belong to my college, but many (including a very large apartment building across the street with aging cement steps) do not. Parking […]
Vaccination rates for children in the UK are still not at a high enough rate to offer maximum protection against infectious diseases such as the measles and mumps, today’s Telegraph reports. According to the NHS, 85% of children have received the MMR shot this year, the same rate as last year:
experts warn that to achieve […]
Yes, these words were said by Mother Warrior Jenny McCarthy on Oprah. McCarthy appeared today with a mother named Monica, who after delivering a daughter via C-section, was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, also known as flesh-eating bacteria. Doctors told Monica that both of her arms and legs had to be amputated. Says McCarthy of her […]
So with Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds, Jenny McCarthy’s new autism book out, I decided I need to fess up.
I am a retired Warrior Mom.
“Warrior Mom” is the term that Jim used to use when I got into a certain “those administrators haven’t heard the last of us” “did […]
‘Tis September and, it seems, the season for autism books: Started off the month with Dr. Paul Offit’s Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine and the Search for a Cure and now here comes Jenny McCarthy’s autism book #2, Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds , and accompanying appearances […]
Another review of Dr. Paul Offit’s Autism False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, in the September 23rd Wall Street Journal, by Linda Seebach, a Minnesota writer whose 30-something-ish son only sought a formal evaluation for Asperger’s Syndrome a year ago.
(Yes, I know what you see to the left is […]
As reported today by ABC15-Scripps Howard News Service : More than 135,000 kindergarten students nationwide are attending school without being vaccinated for potentially deadly diseases like measles, mumps and rubella.
In a review of the recently published book, Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, Rahul Parikh, a physician […]
Back in July, a study on chelation as a treatment for autistic children was put on hold due to safety concerns. Now the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has called off the study, as reported in today’s Associated Press.
The statement says the agency decided the money would be better used testing other potential […]
No, not that kind of shot. I mean “shot” in the sense of taking a photo—a snapshot—of a moment, of something you wanted to remember.
3 autism shots from Tuesday, September 16th, in reverse chronological order.
First shot. Pulling out of the parking lot of Target after the purchase of overly mundane items with a Target card […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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