Doctors sued over ‘dangerous’ autism treatment The father of a 7-year-old Chicago boy who was diagnosed as a toddler with autism has sued the Naperville and Florida doctors who treated his son, alleging they harmed the child with "dangerous and unnecessary experimental treatments." [...] The defendants — family-practice physicians Dr. Anjum Usman of Naperville and [...]

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Study Confirms Linkbetween Older Maternal Age and Autism The authors of the epidemiological study, published February 8 in Autism Research, examined the parental age of more than 12,000 children with autism and nearly five million "control" children between 1990 and 1999, all living in California. The researchers found that mothers over 40 had a 51 [...]

The Lancet has retracted Andrew Wakefields deeply flawed study that linked autism to vaccines after the UK's General Medical Council found that Wakefield acted unethically. The words "its about fucking time" enters my mind. In a editorial from the Lancet said: Following the judgment of the UK General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise Panel on [...]

This is a repost of one of my old posts. Its not one of my first postst but I feel its one of my most important. Seeing as I have moved from my old wordpress.com blog to my own space I though I'd repost some of my original posts Because of the anti-vaccination nonsense there [...]

Cause of the anti-vaccination nonsense there is now an outbreak of Measles. Cause of the anti-vaccination assholes who lie about the fictional connection between autism and vaccines many parents are afraid to get there children vaccinated and yes they are lying, multiple scientific studies have shown no connection between autism and vaccination, at this point [...]

You'd think that a single mother of an autistic child who can not afford the intensive therapy her child needs would have enough problems but apparently not. After she dropped her daughter off at school she received a call from the school saying that she had to get back to the school as immediately. So [...]

Teacher lets Morningside students vote out classmate, 5 PORT ST. LUCIE — Melissa Barton said she is considering legal action after her son's kindergarten teacher led his classmates to vote him out of class. After each classmate was allowed to say what they didn't like about Barton's 5-year-old son, Alex, his Morningside Elementary teacher Wendy [...]

Doctors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studied patient records for more than 30,000 children and found that rates of autism rose substantially if parents had suffered schizophrenia, depression or a range of other personality and psychiatric disorders. The risk of autism went up 70% if 1 parent has a psychiatric disorder [...]

Families make case for vaccine link to autism WASHINGTON (AP) -- Parents claiming that childhood vaccines cause autism should not be rewarded by the courts when the scientific community has already rejected any link, government lawyers argued Monday on the first day of a hearing in federal court. Overall, nearly 4,900 families have filed claims [...]