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Four autism treatments that worry physicians
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 3 hours ago
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Four that worry physicians The Chicago Tribune examined four treatments in depth. Medical experts said that the therapies have not been proved to help children with autism and that each also carries risks. What it is: Antibodies culled from donors are...
Tags: autism theory, Los Angeles, Health Medical Pharma, Food and Drug Administration, Hyperbaric medicine, Intravenous immunoglobulin, Causes of autism, Autism, Chelation therapy
On shaky ground with alternative treatments to autism
London :: United Kingdom | about 3 hours ago
Credibility The Johns Hopkins neurologist and his colleagues had autopsied the brains of people with autism who died in accidents and found evidence of neuroinflammation. This rare look inside the autistic brain had the potential to increase understanding of the...
Tags: Dr. Carlos Pardo, Dr. Dan Rossignol, treating children, experimental treatment, Chicago Tribune, United Kingdom, London, Health Medical Pharma, Simon Baron-Cohen, Defeat Autism Now!, Bernard Rimland, Causes of autism, Autism
Autism: Kids put at risk
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 4 hours ago
Credibility Desperate parents try alternative therapies that aren't based in science and may hurt kids, an investigation finds...The 7-year-old, his father says, can swallow six pills at once. Diagnosed with autism as a toddler, he had been placed on an intense regimen...
Tags: children undergoing, life preserver, try alternative, Los Angeles, Health Medical Pharma, Autism therapies, Autism Research Institute, Defeat Autism Now!, Causes of autism, Chelation therapy, Autism
The chelation based on faulty premise
Lenexa :: KS :: USA | about 4 hours ago
Credibility No treatment is more emblematic of the world of alternative therapies for autism than chelation. The influential autism recovery group, Defeat Autism Now, calls removing metals from the body "one of the most beneficial treatments for autism and related...
Tags: Defeat Autism Now, vaccine court, Jordan King, heavy metals, Dr. Carl R. Baum, Lenexa, Health Medical Pharma, Autism therapies, Thiomersal controversy, Defeat Autism Now!, Chelation, Mercury, Autism, Thiomersal
Autism therapies can get undeserved credit
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 4 hours ago
Credibility Sara DiFucci says she vividly remembers the day a pediatrician said her daughter, then a preschooler, could wind up in a group home later in life. She was devastated. "I thought my daughter was going to get married and go to college," DiFucci said. "That...
Tags: Dr. James Laidler, Sara DiFucci, Los Angeles, Defeat Autism Now!, Laidler, Autism
Bad science: Making contact with a helping hand | Ben Goldacre
Brussels :: Belgium | about 6 hours ago
Credibility Rom Houben, a Belgian, was diagnosed as being in a coma for 23 years, and he has now made a partial recovery. This has been demonstrated via a series of recently developed brain scanning techniques (whose predictive value is not entirely known, but they...
Tags: Rom Houben, facilitators communicate, Belgium, Brussels, Coma, Ouija, Steven Laureys, Facilitated communication, Communication, Autism, Neurology
Adults with autism are the next silent tsunami'
Lenexa :: KS :: USA | about 17 hours ago
Credibility tool goes here Each year, tens of thousands of children diagnosed with autism, from mild to severe, enter adulthood and leave the safe confines of schools and their services behind. Every day, their parents, such as Jennifer Smith-Currier of Gardner,...
Tags: Kansas City Star, Bobby Beeler, Scott Beeler, Swindler, silent tsunami, autistic adults, Leawood, Lenexa, Autism rights movement, Sociological and cultural aspects of autism, Autism, Asperger syndrome
Marijuana, Autism and Andy Dworkin Autism is a Big Industry
Molalla :: OR :: USA | about 23 hours ago
Credibility I have already described my outstanding surprise about ABC News touting marijuana for autism, and also the dozens of emails from that story and my own postings. (see: ABC News Lauds Marijuana for Autism Dr. Phil Leveque Salem-News,com ) The brouhaha didn’t...
Tags: Molalla, Health Medical Pharma, Autism therapies, Dimethylglycine, Valaciclovir, Harry J. Anslinger, Leuprolide, Autism Research Institute, Medical cannabis, Effects of cannabis, Autism, Neuropeptides, Oxytocin
Friday | Michele Balan
Miami :: FL :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Brash New York comedienne, one of the four finalists on Last Comic Standing in 2006, performs a fundraiser for Building Reciprocity, an organization that benefits children with autism. Details: 7 p.m. meet-and-greet, 8 p.m. show at Cinema Paradiso (Vinnette...
Tags: Miami, Last Comic Standing, Vinnette Justine Carroll, Last Comic Standing 4, Reciprocity, Autism, Entertainment Culture
Autism and schizophrenia linked to faults in same genes: Study
Regina :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility Simon Fraser University researchers have found that autism and schizophrenia are both caused by faults in the same set of genes, raising hopes that an effective test or treatment for one may be adapted for use on the other. The finding is a radical departure...
Tags: Bernard Crespi, Canada, Regina, Health Medical Pharma, Schizophrenia, Autism
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