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Autism Science Foundation: a Research based org

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

We need more quality research in autism, no doubt about that. Private organizations can fund/manage this. But, there are Research Organizations and ‘research’ organizations. I was interested to see the new autism organization emerge—the Autism Science Foundation. Kev has already discussed introduction of the ASF. When I saw ASF’s webpage, I was immediately drawn to [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Science Foundation, Paul Offit, Vaccines | No Comments »

Two new genetic studies – care required

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Its always interesting to read about new quality science and two new genetic oriented studies in Nature give us just that – quality science. The first of two Nature studies released today found that 65 percent of autistic participants shared a variation between cadherin 10 and cadherin 9, a region of the genome that controls [...]

Posted in Autism, Genetics, Science | 38 Comments »

A better future for autistic adults

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Following on from the National Autistic Society’s I Exist campaign and the massive support for the Autism Bill in Parliament the UK Government, after working closely with an external reference group chaired by NAS chief executive, Mark Lever, has launched a consultation process for the first government strategy to support adults with autistic spectrum conditions [...]

Tags: A Better Future, autistic adults, Dept of Health, National Autistic Society
Posted in Adults, Advocacy | 8 Comments »

The problem with the IACC is…

Monday, April 27th, 2009

...that Tom Insel is too nice. OK, that is as oversimplification, but bear with me. Dr. Insel is the director of the NIMH (National Institutes of Mental Health) and the chair of the IACC (Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee). As chair, he gets to run the meetings. Lucky him! I say that with tongue planted firmly [...]

Posted in Autism, Generation Rescue, IACC, NIH, Science, Vaccines | 8 Comments »