Study Dispels Link Between Autism and Measles Vaccine

jerry submitted, created time 4 months 3 days (www.washingtonpost.com)

Hoping to dispel long-running concerns that autism is linked to the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR), researchers now say a new study shows the childhood vaccine does not raise that risk.

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Cheleation therapy and autism--is it worth the trouble?

Darkfrog submitted, created time 5 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)

Cheleation therapy involves injecting the patient with dimercaptosuccinic acid or some other agent that can bind to metal ions. The bound ions are then eliminated by the body. Cheleation therapy is used, successfully, in heavy metal poisoning. Now people are pushing for its use with autistic children.

For years, the idea that vaccines cause autism has taken center stage. The rationale is that the mercury used as a preservative (or more specifically, that USED to be used as a preservative) was poisoning the children and interrupting their brain development

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How Safe Are Vaccines?

jerry submitted, created time 7 months 2 weeks (www.time.com)

Parents worried that vaccines trigger autism are increasingly declining the shots for their kids. That's raising fears that long-dormant diseases could return. What the science says about the real risks—and what you should do.

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Sixty-four cases of measels in the U.S., all but one in unvaccinated patients

Darkfrog submitted, created time 8 months 3 days (www.nytimes.com)

Measels is on the rise in the U.S. There have been sixty-four cases this year alone. Only one of these patients can be shown to have had the vaccine. There have been no fatalities so far.

Sixteen of these children are from families who declined vaccination for religious or other resasons, including fear of autism

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Vaccine Injury Case Offers a Clue to the Causes of Autism

jane2007 submitted, created time 8 months 2 weeks (www.sciam.com)

Could a group of disorders involving the power plants of the cell explain why some vaccinated children develop autism but the vast majority don't?

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