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A blast from the past

Friday, March 28th, 2008

The following comes directly from Kanner (1965): Questions have arisen, however, with regard to the ease with which the diagnosis was suddenly bestowed upon a relatively vast contingent of patients. Bender, who in 1942 had, as she said, “not seen very many cases in which we could make a definite diagnosis,” announced later that by [...]

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The Next Big Autism Bomb?

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Over on the Huffington Post, David Kirby has posted about The Next Big Autism Bomb. Its a very long post so take a sammich. The gist (with apologies to Mr Kirby) of it is that there was a conference call to discuss the autism/mito issues: On Tuesday, March 11, a conference call was held between [...]

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Maternal antibodies involved in aetiology of autism(s)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

A new study released by John Hopkins indicates that maternal antibodies may play a role in the aetiology of autism: [a]...possible explanation involves the transfer of reactive antibodies from the mother through the placenta to the fetus. To investigate the latter, the team measured the antibody-brain reaction in blood samples from 100 mothers with and [...]

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Dear CDC

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

I read with interest Dr Schuchat’s opinion piece in the AJC today. Whilst it is gratifying to see someone of Dr Schuchat’s calibre responding to previous claims regarding vaccines in autism I would like to make a few points to Dr Schuchat and the CDC in general. Firstly, this level of response is around eight [...]

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