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Autism Vox (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... death threats . In the May 15th New England Journal of Medicine , Dr. Offit revisits the case of Hannah Poling in light of the history of the recent history of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). With the start of the another case in “Vaccine Court” on Monday, Dr. Offit's essay is certainly timely, though I’m sure he’ll receive merciless “jabs” (may as well use the pun...
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Black Triangle (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
A recent case of vaccine compensation in the US has been picked up by the UK media, notably the Daily Express, and is being touted as evidence that vaccines cause autism. Paul Offit provides a commentary in The New England Journal of Medicine on the Hannah Poling case, and explains how the US vaccination compensation [...]
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Autism Vox (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
What gets “disclosed” and what does not was the issue at the center of the recently released document concerning Hannah Poling. I have “disclosure” and “transparency” of a slightly different sort on my mind right now. Charlie’s IEP meeting is today and, amid reading over documents and evaluations and forms, reading up on IDEA at [...]
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Autism Vox (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
On April 11th, a new document in the case of Hannah Poling was filed. The document—Order Deferring Ruling on Petitioners’ Motion for Complete Transparency of Proceedings—-can be read here. The petitioners are Terry Poling and Jon Poling, the parents of “Hannah Poling, a minor.” The respondent is the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The [...]
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And, yes, I DO take it personally (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
a little bit of truth escaping here...? some very disturbing truth for those who have been concerned with this issue all along, and even MORE disturbing for parents of autistic children who have been trying to get some answers... Julie Gerberding, the head of the CDC, went on CNN's House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta to discuss the Hannah Poling case and admitted that vaccines trigger autism...
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Autism Vox (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
According to an April 22nd Scientific American piece about the case of Hannah Poling—the 9-year-old Georgia girl whose “pre-existing mitochondrial disorder…. was ‘aggravated’ by her shots” according to a concession by the federal government and who was awarded a settlement: “….. scientifically, from the documents presented in the vaccine court, the Polings did not make a [...]
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Scientific American (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
When the parents of Hannah Poling, a nine-year-old, Athens, Ga., girl who was diagnosed with autism just after the age of two, announced that a federal vaccine injury court had awarded them a settlement, the case reignited a decade-old debate about whether vaccines could potentially trigger the disorder. But what was somewhat lost in much of the coverage of the case was a little-known...
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Autism Vox (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
... cases of Michelle Cedillo (whose case was brought before the “vaccine court” in June of 2007) and Hannah Poling , have continued to attract the attention of the public, and to shift attention onto the safety of vaccines , over and above the need to take care of and educate autistic children and adults. At end of March, Kathleen Seidel, who administers the well-researched Neurodiversity...
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Adventures in Autism (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
... to address the mitochondrial issue, which has become of major interest with the appearance of the Hannah Poling’s case. In my original hypothesis, later expanded in a number of other articles, I explained that when the systemic immune system is overactivated, the brain’s special immune system, consisting of microglia and astrocytes, also becomes activated. The microglia normally remain...
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Autism Vox (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
This past Friday, a government-appointed working group met for the first time to discuss research about the safety of immunizations. Federal health officials said that the meeting is not in response to the recent concession by the government that vaccines aggravated an underlying mitochondrial condition in 9-year-old Hannah Poling and led to symptoms of autism; [...]
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
... surfaced last month, with news that the government had agreed to pay the family of 9-year-old Hannah Poling for injuries linked to vaccines. Her family said Hannah was a healthy 19-month-old when she received five shots, encompassing nine vaccines. She became feverish, her behavior gradually changed, and she was eventually diagnosed with autism. Her parents filed a claim under...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
... surfaced last month, with news that the government had agreed to pay the family of 9-year-old Hannah Poling for injuries linked to vaccines. Her family said Hannah was a healthy 19-month-old when she received five shots, encompassing nine vaccines. She became feverish, her behavior gradually changed, and she was eventually diagnosed with autism. Her parents filed a claim under...
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Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
... surfaced last month, with news that the government had agreed to pay the family of 9-year-old Hannah Poling for injuries linked to vaccines. Her family said Hannah was healthy at age 19 months when she received five shots that delivered nine vaccines. She became sick and later developed autism.The government granted that claim late last year on the theory that the vaccines...
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Autism Vox (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
From an op-ed in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution by neurologist Jon S. Poling, the father of Hannah Poling, with a proposal for more research in the “mitochondrial autism”: Emerging evidence suggests that mitochondrial dysfunction may not be rare at all among children with autism. In the only population-based study of its kind, Portuguese researchers confirmed that at [...]...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
The newest question surfaced last month, with news that the government had agreed to pay the family of 9-year-old Hannah Poling for injuries linked to vaccines. Her family said Hannah was a healthy 19-month-old when she received five shots, encompassing nine vaccines. She became sick and later developed autism, and her parents filed a claim under the federal vaccine compensation...
