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Mitochondrial Dysfunction and autism. Brief Q and A with lead author

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Mitochondrial Dysfunction was thrust back into the news again earlier this month when a team from UC Davis led by Professor Cecilia Giulivi discovered: In this exploratory study, children with autism were more likely to have mitochondrial dysfunction, mtDNA overreplication, and mtDNA deletions than typically developing children In itself this is a fascinating development and [...]

Posted in Autism, Cecilia Giulivi, Genetics, John Shoffner, Science, Vaccines | 15 Comments »

Hannah Poling and the Pediatrics thimerosal study: two “big” stories with little press response

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

Two stories which are “big” news in some segments of the online autism community are the settlement amount for Hannah Poling and the recent study showing no link between autism and thimerosal in vaccines. While these have caused a fair amount of discussion on blogs (like this one), they didn’t generate that much press coverage. [...]

Posted in Autism, Epidemiology, Hannah Poling, John Shoffner, Mercury, Mito, Safe Minds, Science, Thimerosal, Vaccines | 6 Comments »

Sharyl Attkisson blogs the Hannah Poling settlement

Friday, September 10th, 2010

I had forgotten Sharyl Attkisson. She is a reporter for CBS news who has covered vaccines in the past, but has been silent on the issue for the past year or more. Her recent piece shows exactly the sort of reporting that frustrated me in the past: Family to Receive $1.5M in First-Ever Vaccine-Autism Court [...]

Posted in Alexander Krakow, Autism, Autism Omnibus, Blogging, Clifford Shoemaker, Hannah Poling, John Shoffner, Legal, MMR, Mercury, Mito, News, Science, Sharyl Attkisson, Thimerosal, Vaccines | 96 Comments »

Fever Plus Mitochondrial Disease Could Be Risk Factors for Autistic Regression

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Autism, regression, mitochondrial disease and vaccines. With a combination like that, this paper is likely going to be very important. Fever Plus Mitochondrial Disease Could Be Risk Factors for Autistic Regression Here is the abstract: Autistic spectrum disorders encompass etiologically heterogeneous persons, with many genetic causes. A subgroup of these individuals has mitochondrial disease. Because [...]

Posted in Autism, Hannah Poling, John Shoffner, Mito, Science, Vaccines | 20 Comments »