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The Wakefield Rehabilitation? Not really.

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Reading about Andrew Wakefield gets old and tiring. I’m sure that isn’t news to readers here. Writing about Andew Wakefield gets very tiring. Who wants to keep reminding him/her self about a man who has caused so much harm to both the autism communities and public health in general? Who wants to read about dishonesty [...]

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Should metabolic diseases be systematically screened in nonsyndromic autism spectrum disorders?

Friday, September 16th, 2011

Metabolic disorders became a major point of discussion within the autism community a few years back. The upside was that a potentially important area of research (and not just within autism) was highlighted. The downside was that a lot of misinformation was propagated. A lot of answers are still unknown precisely. The prevalence of metabolic [...]

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Lack of Infection with XMRV or Other MLV-Related Viruses in Blood, Post-Mortem Brains and Paternal Gametes of Autistic Individuals.

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Another paper has come out showing no link between XMRV (Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus) and autism. A study last year (discussed on LBRB here) stated “These results imply that XMRV is not associated with autism.” In a study just released in the journal PLOS One, we see more evidence against such a link: Lack [...]

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Recent autism abstracts in Pubmed

Friday, December 17th, 2010

Pubmed is an amazing resource. It is a Public Medical library of abstracts (and some articles) in the medical literature. I have a search set up so that I get emails with recent articles with the subject “autism”. I try to obtain some of the articles and discuss them here. This is not based on [...]

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