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Anne Kelly

12/2/2008

Children with health problems require extra attention and can be very expensive to treat. And a new study, published in the journal Pediatrics this week, shows how demanding one condition in particular can be. The study surveyed almost 40,000 children with special needs. Children with autism were shown to create some of the highest [...]

ScienceDaily (Dec. 9, 2008) - A new study shows that women who take the epilepsy drug valproate while pregnant may significantly increase their child’s risk of developing autism. The preliminary research is published in the December 2, 2008, print issue of Neurology.The ongoing study involves 632 children, nearly half of whom were exposed to epilepsy [...]

Though I think that everyone has a choice to make a decision to immunize their child or not, I feel it was inappropriate to add the information quoted by Mr. Brian O’Connor that “misinformation includes the notion that immunization can bring on Autism.”
Let me tell you about my story. I have two children on the [...]

ScienceDaily (Oct. 4, 2008) - The first national survey of attitudes toward autism reveals that a small but significant percentage of people still believe the disease is caused by childhood vaccines. The survey of 1000 randomly selected adults was conducted for the Florida Institute of Technology.
Nearly one in four (24 percent) said that because vaccines [...]

An 11-year-old boy with autism and his family cannot proceed with their case against pharmaceutical companies after a judge ruled that federal law pre-empts state claims against companies if their vaccines are FDA-approved.
Jared Wright, 11, of Texas, was given six vaccines during the first year-and-a-half of his life.
Five of the vaccines contained the mercury-based preservative, [...]

Monday September 1, 2008 (from autism.about.com)
Last Friday, Dr. Paul Offit was a guest on NPR’s Science Friday. Offit is the Chief of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the author of a new book (which I will soon be reviewing) entitled Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine and the Search for a [...]

I found this interesting post at Hating Autism which highlights the benefits of chelation therapy for Autism.
I took Sam to an amusement park today, hadn’t tried that for two years. I was expecting the usual horror show based on our past experiences, meltdowns, flopping on the ground and refusing to get up, lots of screaming [...]

Local health officials say part of the problem is a high-profile court case that seemed to link vaccines to autism. In March, a federal ”vaccine court” approved paying an unspecified sum to the parents of Hannah Poling, 9, of Baltimore, who argued that her autism-like symptoms were caused by vaccines.
BY FRED TASKER at the Miami [...]

NORWALK, CT - Dear EarthTalk: What’s going o­n with all the cases of autism cropping up and no o­ne seems to know why? It stands to reason it must be something (or some things) environmental, yet every study allegedly turns up no conclusion? What are the possible causes? - Jessica W., Austin, TX
From the TriState [...]