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Autism, Vaccines and the CDC: The Wrong Side of History 01-27-2009 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and David Kirby Even as the evidence connecting America's autism epidemic to vaccines mounts, dead-enders at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) -- many of whom promoted the current vaccine schedule and others with strong ties to the vaccine industry -- are trying to delay the day of reckoning by creating questionable studies designed to discredit any potential vaccine-autism link and by derailing authentic studies. On January 12, a cadre of mid-level health bureaucrats left over from the Bush administration ignored Federal requirements for advance notice in order to vote to quietly strip vaccine research studies from funding allocated by Congress in the Combating Autism Act (CAA) of 2006. Members of Congress had said that this money should be used to study the vaccine-autism connection Autism Spectrum Disorders in Relation to Distribution of Hazardous Air Pollutants in the San Francisco Bay Area 09-02-2006 Gayle C. Windham,1 Lixia Zhang,2 Robert Gunier,1 Lisa A. Croen,3 and Judith K. Grether1 1Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control, California Department of Health Services, Richmond, California, USA; 2Impact Assessment, Inc., La Jolla, California, USA; 3Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program Division of Research, Oakland, California, USA Abstract Objective: To explore possible associations between autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and environmental exposures, we linked the California autism surveillance system to estimated hazardous air pollutant (HAP) concentrations compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Methods: Subjects included 284 children with ASD and 657 controls, born in 1994 in the San Francisco Bay area. We assigned exposure level by census tract of birth residence for 19 chemicals we identified as potential Heavy metals may be implicated in autism 05-27-2006 URINE samples from hundreds of French children have yielded evidence for a link between autism and exposure to heavy metals. If validated, the findings might mean some cases of autism could be treated with drugs that purge the body of heavy metals. Samples from children with autism contained abnormally high levels of a family of proteins called porphyrins, which are precursors in the production of haem, the oxygen-carrying component in haemoglobin. Heavy metals block haem production, causing porphyrins to accumulate in urine. Concentrations of one molecule, coproporphyrin, were 2.6 times as high in urine from children with autism as in controls. Arsenic level in residents normal near fly ash dump collapse 03-18-2005 This story concerns me as you can not test low level long term arsenic poisoning through blood and urine Deborah Arsenic from a mound of fly ash that collapsed in Forward two months ago hasn't been detected in nearby residents, and another $50,000 worth of cleanup should help ensure it never does, state and county officials said Thursday. CHILDHOOD AUTIMS RISKS FROM GENETICS AND THE ENVIORNMENT Opportunity to Participate in an Important Study The CHARGE Study is a collaborative research effort involving the University of California Davis Treatment of autism spectrum children with thiamine tetrahydrofurfuryl disulfide: A pilot study news on autism 03-07-2003 Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is conducting a follow-up study. The interpretation of the initial findings is that the children destined to become autistic had impaired detoxification -- thus the toxic metals were not being excreted Autism rise blamed on environment 09-23-2002 comments by Terresa Binstock http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/2224126.stm What Empire's belief systems and economic processes have done (and continue to do) to Native Peoples and to the Biosphere is vicious to the point of criminal. At least removing some of the toxins is helping a goodly number of children. If a child has severe behavior problems within the "autism-spectrum", his or her parents or physicians might be interested in a book in which I was science editor and wrote several sections. This book is ahead of the curve and thus will divide the medical community, but scientific presentations about what's in the book have been presented to various NIH institutes, to Institute of Medicine, even to Congress (House Committee on Govt Reform). The treatments outlined in the book help some children immensely, some considerably, some a small but important bit, and some not at all. A data-summary from a scientific presentation about treatment efficacy can be emailed to people who write me off-list book url: http://www.autism-rxguidebook.net/ or http://http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1883647096/ Teresa Binstock Researcher in Developmental & Behavioral Neuroanatomy Asperger's Syndrome 09-23-2002 remarks from Teresa Binstock Epidemic rise, outside factors not genetics alone !! 07-17-2002 Personal Thoughts by Steve Tvedten: Quote: "....... widely believed that autism has a strong genetic component. But genetic diseases cannot lead to an epidemic-like rise in cases unless outside factors are at play...... " NOTE: "genetic diseases cannot lead to to an epidemic-like rise unless outside factors are at play" is CRUCIAL here. Quote: "...... an as yet unidentified environmental factor is partly to blame....This would be his "worst fear" because if an environmental factor is eventually found it is likely that it would take decades to reduce the effect and bring the numbers of cases under control...." NOTE: "yet unidentified factor". Try CHEMICAL POISONING. Quote: "...... ground-breaking conclusion being reached by some of the world's experts ..... " MIND BOGGLING stuff !! ================================ Article Also Found At: http://www.environmentaltoxinsfoundation.org.uk/bb/YaBB.cgi?boar d=med1&action=display&num=1021045296&start=0 ================================ Autoimmunity by pesticides: multiple exposures & increased susceptibility 08-24-2002 Teresa Binstock on metals, chemicals and auto immune diseases, which autism is being increasingly linked too Bipolar, Cerebellum, & Toxic metals 08-11-2002 A preliminary search by Teresa Binstock Researcher in Developmental & Behavioral Neuroanatomy In response to Time magazine’s article Young and Bipolar Once called manic depression, the disorder afflicted adults. Now it's striking kids. Why? Bipolar & Cerebellum 08-11-2002 In response to Time magazine’s article Young and Bipolar Once called manic depression, the disorder afflicted adults. Now it's striking kids. Why? bipolar, cerebella, toxic metals: TIME Magazine article 08-17-2002 This post is a bit technical, but poisoning children is a sad commentary on Empire's ways with the environment, with regulatory agencies that abuse the concept "safe" levels of numerous toxins -- and the medical-research establishment deflects attention away from pollution by blaming parents via the shibolleth "must be genetic". Autism and the EPA Health Risk Assessment of CCA Wood 08-02-2002 A letter from Teressa Binstock a Researcher in Developmental & Behavioral Neuroanatomy encouraging particapation in the EPA evaluation of the safety of CCA wood. The Epa announcement can be found below her letter FDA, tuna, & mercury; "safe" levels as fiction that injures; ADHD example 08-06-2002 Teresa Binstock Researcher in Developmental & Behavioral Neuroanatomy Letter From Teresa Binstock 07-06-2002 As many of you may realize, the U.S. and other nations are experiencing an epidemic of autism spectrum disorders. A reactionary viewpoint is that the epidemic is merely the result of better diagnosis. However, the children being identified with autism and related syndromes (eg, PDD/NOS) would *never* have been missed by teachers and physicians in prior years. Such children are too severely affected. The epidemic is real, damningly too real! comments from Teresa Binstock on Florida study 08-16-2002 EPA question about arsenic: Florida-selected physicians' panel finds no danger from playground wood