Over the last decade, autism has gone from a rare and misunderstood condition to a disorder that may affect as many as 1.5 million Americans. Without a clear explanation in sight, parents and doctors have worked tirelessly to pinpoint the cause of autism, but the answer remains elusive. Are vaccines the missing link?
Age of Autism - 17 Hours Ago
Dr. Magnan acknowledged families’ concerns over vaccines and autism, but deflected them. “My job as a scientist is to bring you as many facts as possible,” ...
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Age of Autism - November 17, 2008
And he added: “The majority of the people in this room believe that vaccines cause autism. Now, I am not saying that, and I don’t want to be quoted saying ...
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Education Week News - November 17, 2008
The health council’s public hearings on the topic drew passionate parents, many of whom drew a link between vaccinations and autism. ...
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Age of Autism - November 16, 2008
CLICK THE LINK AT THE TOP OF THE INFORMATION BOX ON THE AUTISM ONE RADIO HOME PAGE. Thanks to Louise Kuo Habakus and the NJ Coalition for Vaccination Choice ...
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Age of Autism - November 16, 2008
"Do vaccines cause autism?" I froze. "Busting Medical Myths, Wednesday at 6." I've never run faster to the phone. Surely they would not report the same old ...
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Appleton Post Crescent - November 15, 2008
"I am fully aware that the American Medical Association has not been able to find a link between vaccines and autism," she said. But she still wonders about ...
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Age of Autism - November 14, 2008
"Do I know it was the vaccines?" Khalif asks. "All I know is he stopped talking right around the time of those shots." Neither Khalif nor his wife (who was ...
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Age of Autism - November 13, 2008
Vaccines do not cause autism and we're not afraid of the truth -- if something's wrong with a vaccine, we would pull it. It's ridiculous to argue with a ...
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TV - November 12, 2008
WSAV-TV, GA - 8 hours ago
Many like Savannah Pediatrician Dr. Ramon Ramos blame Thimerosal, suspecting that the mercury preservative used in some vaccines causes Autism. ...
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New York Times - November 10, 2008
That report has been widely discredited, and numerous later studies showed no link between vaccines and autism. Nonetheless, as a consequence of dropping ...
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Age of Autism - November 10, 2008
Research into mercury, vaccines and autism continues today at universities and within the federal system, as well as at large mainstream private ...
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San Francisco Chronicle - November 10, 2008
I find it very interesting that everyone is so judge-jury-and-executioner with vaccines being the big link to Autism but no one ever notices that babies who ...
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Indianapolis Star - November 09, 2008
Some parents also fear that a mercury-based preservative in some vaccines is linked to an increase in US autism cases, although scientific research has ...
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Sacramento Bee - November 09, 2008
... the long- rumored (but so far not medically proven) links between vaccines and autism, to people convinced that flu shots cause them to get the flu. ...
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Record - November 08, 2008
Times Herald-Record, NY - 3 hours ago
There is a debate in the autism community on whether to focus research on toxins and vaccines or genetics. Wright isn't just any parent of a child with ...
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Pioneer Press - November 08, 2008
The site — at autismhangout. com — is not a place to argue "tired" issues such as whether vaccines cause autism, Evans said. "It's much more critical to get ...
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Forbes - November 07, 2008
The evidence was then, and is now, overwhelming: Neither vaccines themselves nor the vaccine-preservative thimerosal cause autism. ...
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Times Online - November 07, 2008
All sorts of hypothetical causes have been advanced and found wanting, from cold-hearted “refrigerator mothers” to vaccines. This week a new contender has ...
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Age of Autism - November 07, 2008
... has tried to use to ward off the overwhelming logic of hundreds of thousands of parents who saw their children decline into autism after vaccination. ...
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The Washington Independent - November 06, 2008
Sources in the autistic parents’ community say that Axelrod set Obama straight about the lack of any link between vaccines and autism.
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