Scientists have shown how a single protein may trigger autistic spectrum disorders by stopping effective communication between brain cells. The team from Duke University in North Carolina created autistic mice by mutating the gene which controls production of the protein, Shank3. The animals exhibited social problems, and repetitive behaviour – both classic signs of autism […]
A tablet a day keeps the patient at bay: the health hazards of prevention – vaccinations and pharmacoprophylaxis BSEM conference 11th March 2011
FoodsMatter.com ‘Do no harm! That’, said Dr David Freed, introducing the British Society of Environmental Medicine’s excellent conference which he had also organised, ‘is the charge put upon doctors when they qualify. But do they?’ The assumption is that the more medical care is available, the more good it will do but the facts do […]
CDC to Study Vaccines and Autism
Huffingtonpost
David Kirby
Author/Journalist
Posted: March 18, 2011 05:46 PM
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants to study autism as a possible clinical outcome of immunization, as part of its newly adopted 5-year research agenda for vaccine safety, the agency said on its website.
The CDC will also study mitochondrial dysfunction and the potential risk for post-vaccine “neurological deterioration,” and convene an expert panel on the feasibility of studying health outcomes such as autism among vaccinated and unvaccinated children.
The CDC plan adopts recommendations approved by the National Vaccine Advisory Committee of the US Department of Health and Human Services. It also comes one month after the federal government’s leading autism body, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), announced a shift in research priorities toward environmental triggers for autism, which the IACC said could include toxins, biological agents and “adverse events following immunization.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Immunization Safety Office Scientific Agenda indentified the need to research “Neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD)” as a possible clinical outcome of vaccination.
Vaccine-related deaths triples after closure of govt labs
Timesofindia.indiatimes
Arun Ram, TNN | Mar 19, 2011, 04.47am IST
CHENNAI: The number of children dying due to immunization-related complications has more than tripled after the government closed down three public sector vaccine labs in January 2008. The government has no clue about the causes while children continue to die, the latest being that of five infants in Gujarat on Wednesday.
Details given by the Union ministry of health and family welfare in reply to an RTI query filed by Dr KV Babu of Payyanur show that 111 children died in 2008 due to “adverse effect after immunisation (AEFI)”. AEFI is a general term that covers various reasons, including bad vaccine quality due to break in cold chain, contamination and complications due to pre-existing conditions of the child.
In 2009, the latest year for which the ministry has given details, 116 children died due to AEFI. In contrast, 32 children lost their lives to AEFI in 2007.
Teen's amazing recovery as rare disorder left her paralysed and fighting for life
Thisishullandeastriding
Saturday, March 19, 2011, 07:50
Rachel Attridge
Student of the year: Rachel Attridge, 17, thought she would die from a rare condition.
A PROMISING young student was left fighting for her life after she was struck down by a rare immune disorder.
Rachel Attridge, 17, thought she would die after she ended up on life support, unable to speak or swallow food.
Now, the brave youngster has been named Student Of The Year at East Riding College after fighting back from life-threatening illness.
Rachel, who shed three-and-a-half stone and was paralysed in intensive care, said: “At my lowest point, I said, ‘Switch the machine off.’
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