With apologies for opening the subject of the Amish and autism once again, a recent paper in the journal Pediatrics explores vaccination and the Amish: Underimmunization in Ohio’s Amish: Parental Fears Are a Greater Obstacle Than Access to Care. Seth Mnookin has already discussed this at The Panic Virus at PLoS blogs in Anecdotal Amish-don’t-vaccinate [...]
Archive for June, 2011
Underimmunization in Ohio’s Amish: Parental Fears Are a Greater Obstacle Than Access to Care
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011Early Diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Massachusetts Birth Cohorts, 2001–2005
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011More kids are being diagnosed autistic before age 3, at least if data from Massachusetts are generalizable. Early Diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Massachusetts Birth Cohorts, 2001–2005 is a study in the journal Pediatrics. Of course the question will be posed: is this due to a shift to earlier ages of diagnosis, a true [...]
A Controversial Autism Therapy Unravels a Family
Monday, June 27th, 2011Time magazine has picked up a story from a six-part investigation by the Detroit Free Press. Some unproven psychological therapies and techniques for autism aren’t simply ineffective. They can split families and cause untold harm to children, as one family in Michigan learned at terrible cost. If you are new to the story, let me [...]
You can make a big difference with money placed in the right scientific hands
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011The Autsim Science Foundation (ASF) is featured on Philanthroper.com. Every day, Philanthroper focuses on a different charity and today it ASF. I just donated. It’s just a dollar, and it only takes a minute. Yes, a dollar. It’s about group giving. When I just checked, they were up to $260. Take a minute. Take a [...]
- Cochrane Reports: Vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella in children (Review)
- Judge Rotenberg Center: Teen tied and shocked for hours; mom calls it “torture”
- President Obama Tells The Arc, Disability Community “I’ve Got Your Back”
- ASAN Invites Autistic College Students to Autism Campus Inclusion Leadership Training
- Severe Influenza Among Children and Young Adults with Neurologic and Neurodevelopmental Conditions — Ohio, 2011
- Eugene Hoskins Is His Name
- Follow up on Redwood City special ed teacher story
- A Comparison of Urinary Mercury between Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Control Children
- Attorney for Prof. Walker-Smith: alleged link between MMR and autism utterly disproved
- CBS Pulls Attkisson From CPAC Award Event
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- Science Mom on Cochrane Reports: Vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella in children (Review): You’re take away...
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- Sullivan on Judge Rotenberg Center: Teen tied and shocked for hours; mom calls it “torture”: All I have...
- The man on Judge Rotenberg Center: Teen tied and shocked for hours; mom calls it “torture”: How very...
- Nunya on Judge Rotenberg Center: Teen tied and shocked for hours; mom calls it “torture”: I am a current...
- stanley seigler on Judge Rotenberg Center: Teen tied and shocked for hours; mom calls it “torture”: ...
- Sullivan on Judge Rotenberg Center: Teen tied and shocked for hours; mom calls it “torture”: “I...
- Sullivan on Judge Rotenberg Center: Teen tied and shocked for hours; mom calls it “torture”: “This...
- Sullivan on Judge Rotenberg Center: Teen tied and shocked for hours; mom calls it “torture”: Shock...
- J.B. Handley Forsworn
- The blogger and the doctor
- Md. suspends autism doctor's license
- 10 deadly myths about childhood vaccines Pictures
- The Crash and Burn of an Autism Guru
- Health experts stress importance of MMR
- Todd Drezner: Learning to Embrace Autism
- Vaccines, autism, and Andrew Wakefield's wake
- The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear -- Grinker 168 (3): 332 -- Am J Psychiatry
- Jenny McCarthy: Still Sticking with Debunked Autism Theory and Using ‘Mob Mind’ as Excuse
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