Mental Health

Autism Court and Vaccines: Part II

Discussing Autism (Free subscription) | 53 minutes ago

The debate isn't over despite what lawyers and doctors want. Parents are insisting that vaccines with Thimerosal and mercury are the direct link to autism and are determined to prove it in the United States Court system. For the second time just this year families are back in court claiming that vaccinations triggered autism in [...]

• Families in Court on Vaccine-Autism Link - ABC News
• CBS4: Vaccine Link To Autism Heads To Court - CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for
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Cases: In Delusions of Romance, Genuine Comfort

New York Times (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Schizophrenia offers a unique relief from the rigors of cancer.

Open Questions about Autism

Autism Vox (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

In The “Opeb Question” on Vaccines and Autism, CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson interviews Dr. Bernardine Healy, a former head of the National Institutes of Health and a member of the Institute of Medicine. Noting that Dr. Healy's credentials “couldn't be more ‘mainstream'”—no DAN! doctor she—Attkisson writes: According to Healy, when she began researching autism [...]

Teen Marijuana Users at High Risk of Mental Problems

ShoutWire.com (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Chinese news quoting the White House: BEIJING, May 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Teenagers who use marijuana put themselves at high risk for serious mental problems: including worsening depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and suicide, according to a new White House report.

The Vaccination Question has No Easy Answers

Silicon Valley Moms Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Every day I receive reports in my email box about various autism biomed treatments or the latest cases involving vaccine-injury. CBS Evening News has an exclusive story on the second round of cases that went to court today alleging a...

Autism Hunger Strike - Canadian Press Report

Facing Autism in New Brunswick (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Canadian Press has reported on the Autism Hunger Strike being carried on by Stefan Marinoiu outside Queen's Park in Toronto. Stefan has done an incredible job, once again, in bringing public attention to the needs of autistic children in Ontario. He has a press conference scheduled for tomorrow morning. People should get out and support Stefan tomorrow. I don't know if my advice will be heeded but...

Mutated Gene Linked to Epilepsy and Intellectual Disabilities in Women

Autism Vox (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Researchers at Adelaide’s Women's & Children's Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Australia, have found that a mutant gene causes epilepsy and intellectual disabilities specific to women. As noted in Science Daily, the study links a “large family of genes known as protocadherins with a condition known as ‘epilepsy and mental retardation limited to females’ [...]

• Mutant gene causes epilepsy, intellectual disability in women - Physorg
• Mutant Gene Causes Epilepsy, Intellectual Disability in Women - Newswise
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A Hospital CEO Censors the Internet, Only to See "the Handwriting on the Medical Chart"

Health Care Renewal (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

The Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram just ran a six-part series about the misfortunes of the JPS Health Network, a large county hospital network and health care system. The story had several twists. (See this page for links to the latter part of the series and related articles. The first three parts are here , here and here . ) The series emphasized the overcrowding and long waits, problems with equipment...

Families make case for vaccine link to autism

ABC 13 (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

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.

Former Head Of NIH Says Time to Investigate Vaccines and Autism

Adventures in Autism (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Vaccine Court Considers Autism Link CBS News Exclusive: Former Head Of NIH Says Government Too Quick To Dismiss Possible Link A second round of autism test cases begins Monday in federal vaccine court. Tonight on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, Attkisson has exclusive interviews with the two families bringing the cases: two of nearly 5,000 autism cases that have been filed in this special court....

Autism testimony resumes in vaccine court

CNN (Free subscription) | yesterday

Testimony resumed Monday in a long-running case involving thousands of children with autism that their parents contend was triggered by an early childhood vaccination.

Families argue autism-vaccine link in court

OTB News (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

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Antivaccinationists invade Bad Astronomy

Respectful Insolence (Free subscription) | yesterday

Oh, no! Phil Plait did a great post on why vaccines do not cause autism . What's his reward? To be invaded by antivaccinationists ! I think you all know what to do. Please, go lend Phil some tactical air support, and I'll be grateful. Read the comments on this post...

Respectful Insolence: Antivaccinationists: Pot. Kettle. Black. And scary, too.

Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | yesterday

Wow. I just saw something that utterly stunned me over at that house organ of the mercury militia and antivaccinationists everywhere Age of Autism. It's an example of hypocrisy so blatant that it stuns even me, someone who’s been following the whole pseudoscientific “vaccines cause autism” movement for over three years now. It started with this [...]

Shooting Straight

Autism Vox (Free subscription) | yesterday

Thanks to autism, 15-year-old Kyle Cramer of Coburg, Oregon, is aiming to compete in the Olympics in archery, KMTR reports: Kyle has captured state and national championships, setting records along the way. Autism no longer holds him back, but helps him to achieve. Wayne Endicott, owner of the Bow Rack Pro Shop says, “Kyle’s handicap becomes his [...]

Jenny McCarthy Reports Improvement In Her Son's Autism

icelebz | 05/06/2008

Jenny McCarthy has revealed her five-year-old son's autism has dramatically improved. The actress is convinced Evan could almost be free of the condition after she made changes to his diet and used alternative therapies. She said: "After two weeks Evan doubled his language skills. Suddenly I had some hope." Jenny also revealed that after six months Evan's personality had returned and she was thrilled

• Jenny McCarthy Reports Improvement In Her Son's Autism - ExpoSay

Gene Flaws Raise Schizophrenia Risk

newsroom | 04/03/2008

BY DELTHIA RICKS delthia.ricks@newsday.com Previously unsuspected flaws in genes involving brain development and neurological function may underlie schizophrenia, researchers have found in an investigation shedding new light on a perplexing psychiatric disorder. Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, working with a team at the University of Washington in Seattle, have uncovered an array of DNA...