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| For more than a decade, Voice of the Environment has stood up for the people and our communities against the avarice of corporations and the misguided policies of the corporate-dominated state. |
August 13, 2007 Our Assumptions About What Causes Chronic Diseases Could Be Wrong Martha Herbert, a pediatric neurologist at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, studies brain images of children with autism. ... more July 30, 2007 Pesticide link to autism suspected Women who live near California farm fields sprayed with organochlorine pesticides may be more likely to give birth to children with autism, according to a study by state health officials to be published today. ... more July 23, 2007 Bush Will Veto Mercury Ban Bill President Bush is to veto a bill that would ban mercury in flu vaccines for children despite its known links to autism and other neurological disorders and despite the fact that he pledged in 2004 to support such a move when campaigning for re-election. ... more July 19, 2007 The dangers of lead When it comes to lead, there has been ample documentation of its ill effects on children: learning disabilities, impaired hearing, kidney damage. What's news is that it may have tremendous ill effects on public safety as well. ... more July 13, 2007 The Unmedicated Mind From lobotomies with ice picks to early antidepressants that caused brain hemorrhaging, Americans have a complicated and ever-changing approach to treating mental illness. ... more July 2, 2007 The Persecution of Andrew Wakefield, M.D. In a few weeks, Andrew Wakefield, M.D., will be defending himself against charges of professional misconduct lodged against him by British physicians running the General Medical Council of England. ... more June 13, 2007 Letter to NBC News President re Autism Omnibus Proceedings The undersigned organizations are writing to you regarding the concerns among families of vaccine-injured children across the country over NBC’s recent coverage of the Autism Omnibus proceedings. ... more June 12, 2007 Hearings Provide Vaccine-Injured Children Opportunity for Justice Today’s start of the Autism Omnibus Proceeding in the U.S Federal Claims Court has already evoked concerns over the handling and whitewashing of the Centers for Disease Control’s Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD). ... more June 12, 2007 Court to determine if vaccines cause autism A major court proceeding has begun in Washington, D.C., for thousands of parents who claim their children's autism was triggered by vaccines. ... more June 11, 2007 Vaccine claims get their day in court Science has spoken when it comes to the theory that some childhood vaccines can cause autism. They don‘t, the Institute of Medicine concluded three years ago. ... more June 11, 2007 Children With Autism Get Day in Court The parents of 12-year-old Michelle Cedillo asked a federal court Monday to find that their child's autism was caused by common childhood vaccines, a precedent-setting case that could pave the way for thousands of autistic children to receive compensation from a government fund set up to help people injured by the shots. ... more June 4, 2007 Vaccine-Induced Autism Hearings to Present Science Supporting Parents' Claims Hearings are scheduled to begin next week in the U.S Federal Claims Court where over 4,800 parents have filed for compensation for their children who developed autism after exposure to infant vaccines. ... more April 24, 2007 Legislators Introduce Vaccine Safety Bill "The CDC has responsibility for both vaccine safety and promotion, which is an inherent conflict of interest." ... more April 9, 2007 Autistics Clinically Proven Mercury Poisoned Recent peer-reviewed scientific/medical studies by Nataf et al. (2006) and by Geier and Geier (2006) leave little doubt that many children with autism spectrum disorder(ASDs) are indeed mercury poisoned. ... more March 29, 2007 Autism Speaks: Will Anyone Listen? Two years ago, Bob Wright, then president of NBC Universal, and his wife Suzanne founded the blockbuster charity Autism Speaks after their perfectly normal grandson, Christian,developed the disorder and stopped speaking. ... more March 1, 2007 Mercury Rising The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services insists that organic mercury preservatives in vaccines given to young children are safe, but the centers for disease control asked drug manufacturers to start phasing them out in 1999. ... more February 23, 2007 CDC's Vaccine Committee Whitewashed Toxic Vaccine Component Parents and health advocates are expressing outrage over the recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) that pregnant women, infants and children continue to be exposed to mercury contained in the flu vaccine despite recommendations from the Institute of Medicine that mercury not be injected into these sensitive populations since 2001. ... more February 8, 2007 CDC Releases New Data on Autism Spectrum Disorders The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported findings today from the first and largest summary of prevalence data from multiple U.S. communities participating in an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) surveillance project. ... more January 29, 2007 Finally, a Topic Too Hot for "The View" Daytime television has not been the same since Rosie O'Donnell took a pugnacious seat at the talkative table known as The View. ... more November 17, 2006 Doctors Fight Vaccine-Autism Fear Many medical practitioners express frustration with what they see as persistent and problematic autism-related claims circulating on the Internet that unjustly give vaccines in particular and the medical establishment in general a black eye. ... more November 17, 2006 The Other Secret Bush Court Next year, a "Special Master" in an obscure Federal court known only to a few Americans will preside over a highly sensitive judicial matter of urgent national importance. ... more November 14, 2006 Weighing Risk, Benefit of Vaccines Since 2001, vaccines routinely recommended for U.S. children 6 and younger have been made without the mercury-based ingredient thimerosal, or with only traces of the preservative. ... more November 3, 2006 Mercury Vaccine Law Waived California doctors who have put off immunizing their youngest patients against the flu because of inadequate supplies of mercury-free vaccines received a six-week waiver Thursday, freeing them to administer regular flu shots until Dec. 14. ... more October 31, 2006 National Autism Association Cites Serious Shortcoming in CDC Flu Shot Safety Study A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicating that the influenza vaccine is safe for infants and toddlers is being criticized for the brief six-week follow-up of subjects involved in the study. ... more October 30, 2006 "Suspicious" Shortage Threatens Spread of Mercury Vaccines to CA Infants California Pediatricians along with other state medical groups, at the urging of a flu vaccine manufacturer have asked California health officials for an exemption to the California ban on mercury containing vaccines Thursday after claiming a shortage of the vaccination to justify the action. ... more October 30, 2006 Activists Putting Heat On Barton Heading one of Congress' most powerful committees, Rep. Joe Barton has become the No. 1 enemy of groups pushing for more research into two of the nation's most prevalent diseases -- autism and breast cancer. ... more October 30, 2006 Ped Med: Mercury Differences Raise Concern Recent research shows the type of mercury the government relied on as a reference in setting safety standards for children's vaccines differs significantly from the type that was actually present in the shots -- and still remains in some of them. ... more October 8, 2006 U.S. Rules Allow the Sale of Products Others Ban Chemical-laden goods outlawed in Europe and Japan are permitted in the American market. ... more September 27, 2006 The Age of Autism: Rattled regulators A shakeup at the CDC and the shaky performance of the FDA raise some serious questions relevant to the debate over the huge rise in reported cases of autism. ... more September 25, 2006 Unraveling autism's mystery A single word -- autism -- changed Christine Bakter's life. ... more September 22, 2006 Lots at Stake In Autism Debate The continuing debate over whether vaccines play a role in neurodevelopmental disorders is more than academic, with children's health and industry wealth hanging in the balance. ... more September 20, 2006 Three major autism studies explores new treatments The National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched three clinical studies on autism at its research program on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md. ... more September 7, 2006 The Age of Autism: About those 'old dads' The study released this week that found older fathers more likely to have autistic children has created a media stir. But there may be less to the story than meets the eye. ... more September 7, 2006 FDA Began Hearings Today on Adverse Health Effects of Elemental Mercury from Dental Amalgams Today, the Food and Drug Administration began a two-day hearing on elemental mercury from dental amalgams. ... more September 1, 2006 Burning wetlands unleash sequestered mercury Climate change appears to be contributing to the waking of a dangerous sleeping giant in the most northern wetlands of North America - mercury. ... more August 30, 2006 Drug Makers' Dime Funds Congressional Travel Members of Congress and their aides accepted more than $600,000 in free travel from pharmaceutical interests during a 5½-year period in which drug company profits climbed, in part due to federal legislation favorable to the industry. ... more August 25, 2006 The Age of Autism: Something Wicked -- 2 The idea of a "chemical connection" in many cases of autism arose during the 1970s and 1980s, then gave way to gene-based theories. But the time has come to revive it. ... more August 22, 2006 Finding Adds Another Piece to Autism Puzzle Contrary to common medical thought, young children with autism do not have accelerated brain growth even though their brains appear enlarged, new research claims. ... more August 21, 2006 Lawmakers Sever Ties Between CDC And Big Pharma In the wake of overhauling the FDA, lawmakers are also cracking down on conflicts of interest within the Centers for Disease Control. ... more August 18, 2006 The Age of Autism: Something Wicked -- 1 The Combating Autism Act passed by the U.S. Senate earlier this month includes millions of dollars for research into possible environmental causes of autism. ... more August 16, 2006 MMR: Cost For Single Vaccines Near £500 ($947) The cost of single injections for measles, mumps and rubella at one of Scotland's biggest private clinics has soared to almost £500, sparking criticism from parents' groups. ... more August 15, 2006 Get Behind the Latest and Greatest Vaccine Safety Legislation Furthering their strong, positive reputations as vaccine safety activists on Capitol Hill, Representatives Dave Weldon (R. Fla.) and Carolyn Maloney (D. NY) are at it again. ... more August 14, 2006 Congress to Probe Policies at NIH A bipartisan group asks the health agency for details of a researcher's ties to drug companies to assess its conflict-of-interest guidelines. ... more August 9, 2006 Shots worse than mercury emissions While environmental mercury exposure can be easily sidestepped by dietary restraint, mercury-laced flu vaccines are much more difficult to avoid in Illinois. ... more August 5, 2006 The Age of Autism: 'Amish bill' introduced For the second time this week, legislation aimed at determining whether vaccines are linked to an epidemic of unrecognized side effects has been introduced in Congress--this time as a direct result of reporting by Age of Autism. ... more August 3, 2006 The Age of Autism: 'The first casualty' A medical doctor in the U.S. House of Representatives delivered a harsh judgment this week on public health authorities whose job is making sure vaccinations are as safe as humanly possible. ... more August 1, 2006 Historical Move Made By Congressman Dave Weldon U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, M.D. (R-FL) to introduce a bill that would give responsibility for the nation's vaccine safety to an independent agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, removing most vaccine safety research from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). ... more August 1, 2006 Dr. Gottlieb Is Not Happy It was an uncomfortable moment. ... more July 13, 2006 Parents, Doctors and The Disputed Link Between Vaccines And Autism It has been nearly 50 years since mothers shouldered the blame for their children's autism. Yet for many parents, echoes of that painful era remain. ... more July 5, 2006 Thimerosal banned from kids' vaccines Vaccines containing a mercury-based preservative are now largely off-limits to children younger than 3 and pregnant women in California. ... more July 5, 2006 Campaign focuses on dangers of mercury Mercury can measure body temperature or make fluorescent lights work more efficiently. It's also a dangerous neurotoxin that's been linked to learning disabilities and developmental delays in children. ... more June 22, 2006 Mass Medication With Omega 3 Would Wipe Out Global Fish Stocks The more it is tested, the more compelling the hypothesis becomes. Dyslexia, ADHD, dyspraxia and other neurological problems seem to be associated with a deficiency of Omega 3 fatty acids, especially in the womb. ... more June 14, 2006 The Age of Autism: But is Wakefield Right? Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the British gastroenterologist who first raised the prospect of a link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism, is being pursued by British medical authorities. ... more June 13, 2006 Advocacy Groups Urge CDC Advisory Committee To Remove Mercury from Vaccines A prominent ad in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution sponsored by parents and friends of children injured by mercury in vaccines demands that a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory committee require complete removal of mercury from vaccines. ... more June 13, 2006 Mercury in tuna Canned light tuna, long recommended as the safer choice because of its presumably lower mercury content, sometimes harbors at least as much of that potentially harmful heavy metal as white tuna does, our analysis of Food and Drug Administration data has shown. ... more June 9, 2006 Big Pharma's Deadly Experiments A newly surfaced report alleges that in 1996, drug monolith Pfizer gave an unproven drug to Nigerian children and infants suffering from meningitis -- without the authorization of the Nigerian government. ... more June 8, 2006 Mercury warning labels a clear win The May 30 Seattle P-I story, "California still fighting to put mercury warnings on canned tuna," shows how difficult it is in the current environment for consumers to get consistent food safety information they can use, in this case about mercury in fish. ... more June 4, 2006 The Unorthodox Practice Of Chelation No one knows what causes autism, but one theory has ignited an intense debate. ... more May 8, 2006 Hawai'i Legislature Passes Anti-Mercury in Vaccines Bill They printed T-shirts and painted signs. They blew conch shells and sang songs. ... more May 5, 2006 US Survey Shows Autism Very Common The first national surveys of autism show the condition is very common among U.S. children -- with up to one in every 175 with the disorder, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. ... more May 1, 2006 "Minamata is a Disease that was Willfully Inflicted" The worst case of chronic industrial pollution in modern times began half a century ago in the small town of Minamata, Japan. ... more April 20, 2006 When the Cure is worse than the Disease? Every flu season pregnant women and infants get deluged with a flurry of warnings to get vaccinated. These advisories come from the National Immunization Program (NIP), which is run by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). ... more April 20, 2006 Mercury and Autism Every U.S. state has seen triple digit increases in autism diagnoses since the 1990’s. ... more April 17, 2006 Mother Pushes For Vaccine Ban A bill considered by a legislative committee has Kansas joining a global debate about the link between mercury and autism ... more April 13, 2006 The Age of Autism: Christian's Mom Speaks A small earthquake rumbled through the autism world shortly after 7:30 a.m. on April 11, and the aftershocks are going to be felt for a long time. ... more April 11, 2006 Kids On ADHD Drugs - Dangerous Path To Addiction Experts say the stimulant drugs prescribed for the treatment of ADHD are not only dangerous, they are highly addictive. And although no drug has been approved for the treatment of autism, drugs are routinely prescribed off-label to treat autistic children. ... more April 10, 2006 Poisoning Our Children Top Republicans — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., — recently sold the future of our children to Big Pharma for a paltry $4 bucks a pop. ... more April 10, 2006 Battle Lines Drawn Over Mercury in Shots As lawmakers in about 20 states press for bans on mercury in children's vaccines, they are meeting stiff resistance from influential health and medical organizations, including groups that get substantial funding from drug makers and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ... more April 6, 2006 Autism controversy eats at credibility of CDC The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, rarely the subject of public controversy, is facing an emerging credibility crisis on the emotional issue of whether old-style vaccines containing a mercury preservative caused autism in thousands of children. ... more April 1, 2006 The Age of Autism: Hot potato on the Hill The newly proposed legislation to study the autism rate in never-vaccinated American kids could settle the debate over vaccines and autism once and for all. ... more March 22, 2006 Vaccine study findings fuel debate over autism A new UC Davis study links a mercury-containing preservative once prevalent in many children's vaccines to immune system dysfunction in mice. ... more March 21, 2006 Study with Mice Links Thimerosal with Immune System Dysfunction A team of cell biologists, toxicologists and molecular bioscientists at UC Davis has published a study connecting thimerosal with disruptions in antigen-presenting cells known as dendritic cells obtained from mice. ... more March 16, 2006 Thimerosal Update: The CDC's Scarlet Letter March is roaring in like a lion for the Center for Disease Control (CDC) as the controversy surrounding the autism thimerosal debate is capturing the attention of the media in a flurry of news stories. ... more March 10, 2006 Let's All Get ADD No one is getting enough sleep. No one is getting enough sleep because everyone is so damned stressed. ... more March 10, 2006 Study links vaccines containing mercury with autism A 1948 article in the journal Pediatrics opens with, “Inflammatory reactions involving various parts of the nervous system following injections or various sera or vaccines have long been known”. ... more March 9, 2006 M.I.N.D. Institute Launches Largest Biomedical Assessment of ASD Children Multidisciplinary teams of physicians and scientists at the University of California, Davis, M.I.N.D. Institute have launched the nation's most comprehensive assessment of children with autism to detect the biological and behavioral patterns that define subtypes of the disorder. ... more March 9, 2006 The Age of Autism: Pay No Attention There's a Steely Dan album called Pretzel Logic that could be the theme song of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as it struggles with concerns over vaccines and autism. ... more March 7, 2006 A Poisonous Move for Kids by CDC On February 22, CDC announced that it is dramatically expanding America's flu vaccination program to include all children between six months and 5 years and their siblings and caretakers. But, guess what CDC forgot to mention? ... more March 7, 2006 Report: Government knew of autism link Eight years before the U.S. government decided to remove mercury from most childhood vaccines, federal health officials were already receiving reports linking vaccinations to new cases of autism. ... more March 7, 2006 Responses to Dan Hamburg's article: Dr. Frist Immunizes Big Pharma To the editor: Thanks for having the spine to publish Dan Hamburg's article “Government Of, By and For the Pharmaceutical Companies.” I hope it will be just the first in a series. After he's done the thimerosal and oncogenic viruses in vaccine issues, perhaps you'll encourage him to tackle mercury amalgams in dentistry. Patricia Aiken More responses to Dr. Frist Immunizes Big Pharma ... more March 2, 2006 Less is Beautiful Whatever the reason, a big decline in autism diagnoses would be welcome news to anyone who cares about the nightmarish prevalence of the disorder. ... more March 1, 2006 Time for CDC to Come Clean Correspondence newly obtained under the Freedom of Information Act raises troubling new questions about CDC's role in the Thimerosal scandal. ... more February 28, 2006 Autism Tsunami Carries Away Parents' Resources At his baptism at two-and-a-half-months old, my son Fridrik, had better focus and communication skills than he would two years later when the regressive form of autism took hold. ... more February 22, 2006 Who Runs Colorado? Denver's Rocky Mountain News says it's time to get over fears that a mercury-based preservative in flu vaccines could harm children or pregnant women. ... more February 3, 2006 The Failure of Chemical Regulation: The Case of Mercury Mercury pollution offers us a well-lit window into the failed system of chemical regulation in the U.S. ... more January 23, 2006 Dr. Frist Immunizes Big Pharma Hidden in the folds of the thickly pork-laden Department of Defense Appropriations bill that slid through Congress just before Christmas and was signed into law a day before New Year’s was a big slab of holiday cheer for the pharmaceutical industry. ... more January 10, 2006 Autism Up; Schools Stressed As the number of children diagnosed with autism continues to climb nationwide, public school districts are finding it hard to keep keep pacewith some of their classroom needs, in particular with providing enough speech pathologists to serve them. ... more January 9, 2006 Bill Would Outlaw Flu Shots With Mercury For Children Legislation that would prevent Tennessee children from getting flu shots that contain a controversial mercury preservative is pitting parent groups against pediatricians. ... more January 9, 2006 The Age of Autism: CDC Probes Vaccines The CDC is continuing to investigate whether a mercury preservative in childhood immunizations has caused cases of autism -- despite the fact a report it paid for said such research should end. ... more December 30, 2005 The Age of Autism: Gold Standards A published scientific paper suggests gold salts -- the treatment that may have prompted improvement in the first child ever diagnosed with autism -- can affect mental conditions. ... more December 30, 2005 Autism: An Epidemic Is Finally Acknowledged The year 2005 will be a year to remember in the autism epidemic: The debate came to a head between parents of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) children and the federal government, which has long denied an autism epidemic exists. ... more December 20, 2005 The Age of Autism: The Story So Far ... more December 8, 2005 The Age of Autism: 'A Pretty Big Secret' It's a far piece from the horse-and-buggies of Lancaster County, Pa., to the cars and freeways of Cook County, Ill. ... more November 16, 2005 Former DuPont Top Expert: Company Knew, Covered Up Pollution of Americans' Blood for 18 Years Glenn Evers was a DuPont employee of 22 years, one of the company's top technical experts and the chairman of an invitation-only committee of its 40 best scientists and technical experts. ... more November 15, 2005 The Age of Autism: 'The Facts Say Maybe' A small text block on the cover of the current Columbia Journalism Review may be a lot bigger than it looks. ... more November 15, 2005 Drug Test On May 18, 2004, the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the prestigious National Academies, delivered its eighth and final report on vaccine safety, seeking to end a scientific controversy that had built to a slow boil over the previous five years: whether a mercury-containing vaccine preservative called thimerosal was to blame for an alarming spike in autism cases among a generation of children. ... more November 14, 2005 Diagnosis isn't about violence "Mom, I'm not like that," 21-year-old Tom Iland told his mother as they watched a TV news report about a young man with Asperger's syndrome who killed two neighbors in Orange County. ... more November 13, 2005 Chronicles in Autism On a sunny morning in early fall, six fourth- graders hold hands in a Mill Valley school yard, playing a new generation of PE game called Swamp Trail. ... more October 18, 2005 Pediatricians Urge a Precautionary Approach to Toxic Lead The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has just issued a new "policy statement" urging the U.S. to eliminate toxic lead from all housing, to stop poisoning the nation's children. ... more October 18, 2005 Mendocino Supervisors Consider Precautionary Approach At its Sept. 27 Board Meeting, the Mendocino County [Calif.] Board of Supervisors approved a request by the Mendocino County Public Health Advisory Board to "conduct a ninety-day study of the precautionary principle." ... more October 18, 2005 The Age of Autism: Connecting New Dots Until now, the debate over a possible link between ethyl mercury and autism has focused on its use in vaccines beginning in the 1930s, when the first children diagnosed with the disorder were born. ... more October 13, 2005 California Reports: New Autism Cases Continue To Decline According to information released today by the California Department of Developmental Services, the number of new cases of full syndrome DSM IV autism entering California's developmental services system declined. ... more October 13, 2005 The Age of Autism: 'My Child Is Toxic' This column receives a welcome avalanche of correspondence, but our recent discussion of autism as a "whole-body illness" has generated more e-mail and faster than any other topic we've considered. ... more October 11, 2005 The Age of Autism: More Sick Kids In our last column, "A whole-body illness," we wrote: "Something is medically wrong with many, many autistic children. To be more precise, many things are wrong with them. Yet autism is defined by the health authorities as a mental disorder, diagnosed solely by observation." ... more October 5, 2005 Tense? Lonely? There's Promise in a Pill In his hilarious stand-up routine, Chris Rock talks about the ubiquitous television drug commercials that "keep naming symptoms till they get one that" the viewer's got. ... more October 4, 2005 Docs May Drop Patients Who Refuse Vaccines More than one-third of pediatricians would cease providing medical care to a family that refuses all vaccinations, reveals a new survey coming on the heels of a warning by federal officials that a meningitis vaccine may cause a serious neurological disorder. ... more September 26, 2005 Autism: An Immunological Perspective Autism is an increasingly common developmental disability that typically appears in childhood, usually during the first three years of life. ... more September 13, 2005 Senate Maintains Mercury Emissions Rules The Senate on Tuesday narrowly turned back a challenge to the Bush administration's strategy on mercury pollution, leaving intact federal rules that give power plants flexibility in how they reduce emissions of the dangerous toxin. ... more September 8, 2005 Critics, backers weigh in on chelation therapy Nine-year-old Nathan Cromie started making progress his parents had never seen before as soon as he started the Chelation therapy. ... more August 31, 2005 What's inside some noted Californians A film actor, a human rights leader and a university professor joined a chemical-testing program to prove a point. And they did. ... more August 31, 2005 New Rules Could Allow Power Plants to Pollute More The Bush administration has drafted regulations that would ease pollution controls on older, dirtier power plants and could allow those that modernize to emit more pollution, rather than less. ... more August 29, 2005 Main Autism Behaviour Types Are Not Genetically Linked Scientists at the MRC (Medical Research Council, UK) Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, have discovered that two sets of behaviours that co-occur in autism spectrum conditions appear to be caused by different sets of genes. ... more August 29, 2005 Parents of Children With Autism Discuss Results Of Chelation The death last week of a 5-year-old autistic boy during a controversial treatment to rid his body of heavy metals is giving pause to some families who have embraced this therapy for their own children, but many are continuing to use it. ... more August 24, 2005 Bridging Autism's Distance Parents are turning to alternative interventions such as metal-stripping drugs, antioxidants and special diets to help their children, but experts say the costly approaches are unproven. ... more August 23, 2005 FDA opposing state warnings on canned tuna The Bush administration is siding with tuna companies in opposing a lawsuit by the state that would require signs on store shelves or labels on tuna cans in California warning of the dangers of mercury, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer reported Friday. ... more August 23, 2005 Michigan Group Raises Awareness of Mercury Risks with Billboards Several local families have banded together to purchase three billboards to educate people about dangers they believe are related to thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used for many years in vaccines. ... more August 23, 2005 Mercury Not A Side Issue, It Is The Major Issue The SAR is correctly emphasizing mercury amongst autism issues for several reasons. ... more August 10, 2005 Vaccines and Autism: Looking for the Truth? Study the Amish. On Sunday morning's Meet the Press, Dr. Harvey Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine, debated New York Times reporter and author David Kirby about the strength of the science linking the current epidemic of neurological disorders among American children to the mercury-based vaccine preservative thimerosal. ... more August 1, 2005 Senator Joins Congressman Dave Weldon in Effort to Protect America's Children Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska has introduced legislation to ban thimerosal, a mercury containing preservative, from use in vaccines. ... more August 1, 2005 Mercury and Tuna: US Advice Leaves Lots of Questions The struggle to find the right balance on mercury is part of a larger issue: How to deal with dozens of industrial chemicals now known to linger in the environment and the human body in trace amounts. ... more July 28, 2005 H.R. 5 and S. 354 Take Away Your Vaccine Injured Child's Rights! The federally-run Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) does not stop most vaccine-injury cases from ending up in the traditional civil justice system. Bringing a lawsuit in a court of law with a jury is the traditional legal option that gives vaccine injury claimants leverage. ... more July 25, 2005 UK chemist tilts at autism's origins Some of the protesters making their way through the midsummer heat of Washington last week were parents holding photos of their autistic children. Others carried signs with slogans such as "Autism sucks! Say no to mercury." ... more July 22, 2005 Dozens of Chemicals Found in Most Americans' Bodies In the largest study of chemical exposure ever conducted on human beings, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday that most American children and adults were carrying in their bodies dozens of pesticides and toxic compounds used in consumer products, many of them linked to potential health threats. ... more July 20, 2005 Dupont Sued in Teflon Class Action Case Two Florida law firms said on Tuesday they had filed class action lawsuits against DuPont Co. , charging the giant chemicals producer hid the potential health hazards of its Teflon nonstick cookware coatings. ... more July 19, 2005 US health officials try to head off autism debate Federal health officials affirmed the safety of vaccines on Tuesday in an unusual news conference called to counter a growing movement alleging that vaccines can cause autism. ... more July 18, 2005 PCL Foundation Spearheads Effort to Protect California's Children from Lead Poisoning Lead poisoning is the greatest environmental health threat affecting children in the United States. ... more July 14, 2005 Unborn Babies Soaked in Chemicals, Survey Finds Unborn U.S. babies are soaking in a stew of chemicals, including mercury, gasoline byproducts and pesticides, according to a report to be released Thursday. ... more July 13, 2005 Fluoride-cancer study scrutinized Federal authorities and Harvard University officials are investigating whether a Harvard professor buried research suggesting a link between fluoridated tap water and bone cancer in adolescent boys. ... more July 13, 2005 EPA Is Faulted as Failing to Shield Public From Toxins The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect the public from tens of thousands of toxic compounds because it has not gathered data on the health risks of most industrial chemicals, according to a report by the investigative arm of Congress to be released today. ... more July 9, 2005 Environmental Toxicants and Developmental Disabilities "Sixth grade was a trying time for Karen Singer's autistic son, who spent recess wandering the periphery of the playground by himself and sometimes hid in the school bathroom when he needed a safe place to cry. ... more July 3, 2005 More flushed pharmaceuticals turning up in our waterways Academics, state officials and environmental advocates are starting to question whether massive amounts of discarded pharmaceuticals, which are often flushed down the drain, pose a threat to the nation's aquatic life and possibly to people. ... more June 27, 2005 Isn't It Time We Regulated Chemicals? ... more June 17, 2005 EPA Using Data From Chemical Tests on Humans The Environmental Protection Agency is using data from two dozen tests that deliberately exposed humans to toxic chemicals to help determine whether to approve new pesticides, according to a study released yesterday by congressional Democrats. ... more June 16, 2005 Deadly Immunity When a study revealed that mercury in childhood vaccines may have caused autism in thousands of kids, the government rushed to conceal the data -- and to prevent parents from suing drug companies for their role in the epidemic. ... more June 13, 2005 Civilization Challenged by Heavy Metal Toxicity Toxics in our environment—and heavy metals in particular—are a leading cause of the spike in mental illness documented over the past several decades. ... more June 9, 2005 A New Way to Inherit Environmental Harm New research shows that the environment is more important to health than anyone had imagined. Recent information indicates that toxic effects on health can be inherited by children and grandchildren, even when there are no genetic mutations involved. ... more June 7, 2005 Firm Removed Mercury From Nasal Spray, Not Infant Shots ... more June 3, 2005 Startling study on toxins' harm It's just a study involving a few rats with fertility problems in Pullman, but the findings could lead to fundamental changes in how we look at environmental toxins, cancer, heritable diseases, genetics and the basics of evolutionary biology. ... more June 3, 2005 Startling study on toxins' harm It's just a study involving a few rats with fertility problems in Pullman, but the findings could lead to fundamental changes in how we look at environmental toxins, cancer, heritable diseases, genetics and the basics of evolutionary biology. ... more May 27, 2005 Studies link chemicals to genital, breast development Researchers have reported for the first time that they have found a highly significant link between human exposure to chemicals used in consumer products and adverse changes in the genitals of baby boys. ... more May 27, 2005 Toxin in plastics harming unborn boys Scientists in America have found the first evidence that common chemicals used in products as diverse as cosmetics, toys, clingfilm and plastic bags may harm the development of unborn baby boys. ... more May 26, 2005 A child's return from autism A Lafayette couple, certain that chelation therapy has helped their autistic son, stepped squarely into the controversy surrounding the causes of autism and its treatment Tuesday as they joined 150 other parents in launching an international support group that will aggressively promote the treatment. ... more May 20, 2005 Sweden Leads Ban on Toxins Laws serve as model for European Union's restrictions on hundreds of chemicals in everyday products, such as hair sprays and computers. ... more May 5, 2005 Horror of US Depleted Uranium in Iraq Threatens World "I'm horrified. The people out there - the Iraqis, the media and the troops - risk the most appalling ill health. And the radiation from depleted uranium can travel literally anywhere. It's going to destroy the lives of thousands of children, all over the world. We all know how far radiation can travel. Radiation from Chernobyl reached Wales and in Britain you sometimes get red dust from the Sahara on your car." ... more April 22, 2005 Vaccine additive linked to autism A mercury-laced preservative once widely added to pediatric vaccines exposes infants' brains to twice the neurotoxin previously suspected, offering evidence that health guidelines may underestimate the risk newborns face, researchers say in a report being published today. ... more April 20, 2005 George Bush On Mercury Pollution: Don’t Eat Tuna Fish Professing a deep belief in the sanctity of life, particularly for the unborn, George Bush is callously indifferent about the toxic effects of mercury on human fetuses. ... more April 13, 2005 Study Cites Risk of Compound in Plastic Bottles Evidence is mounting that a chemical in plastic that is one of the world's most widely used industrial compounds may be risky in the small amounts that seep from bottles and food packaging, according to a report to be published this week in a scientific journal. ... more April 11, 2005 EPA Halts Florida Test on Pesticides Stephen L. Johnson, the acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said on Friday that he was canceling a study of the effects of pesticides on infants and babies, a day after two Democratic senators said they would block his confirmation if the research continued. ... more April 7, 2005 GAO Report On Autism Education Costs Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN) and Congresswoman Diane Watson (D-CA) announced today the findings of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) study on the costs of educating individuals afflicted with some type of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). ... more April 1, 2005 #811--Human Exposure and Health Hazards, Part 2 What are the health effects of all the pollutants in our bodies that we discussed in Rachel's #810? ... more April 1, 2005 9 US states limit local control of GM seeds Similar seed bills have been introduced in 9 different US states that would stop local cities and counties from restricting the sale of GM seeds. ... more March 31, 2005 Legislature considers bill to ban chemical from kids' products An obscure chemical in hard plastic baby bottles, liners inside canned food and some water containers lies at the center of controversy as the California Legislature considers a bill to ban it in children's products. ... more March 24, 2005 Human Exposure and Health Hazards, Part 1 United States environmental regulations, intended to protect human health, generally fail to address major sources of pollutants that endanger human health. ... more March 23, 2005 Study says household dust holds dangerous chemicals Common household dust contains a variety of hazardous chemicals originating from everyday consumer products, including Teflon and other nonstick cookware and fabrics coated with water-resistant Gore-Tex, according to a study released Tuesday. ... more March 23, 2005 Are vaccinations safe for young children? ... more March 23, 2005 EPA Reverses Key Lead Abatement Rule: Children at Risk "There is more than a little irony here. The EPA - the same agency that took lead out of gasoline - is now weakening any attempt to eliminate the most important remaining source of lead poisoning: household paint and dust." ... more March 22, 2005 New EPA Mercury Rule Omits Conflicting Data When the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a rule last week to limit mercury emissions from U.S. power plants, officials emphasized that the controls could not be more aggressive because the cost to industry already far exceeded the public health payoff. ... more March 16, 2005 New EPA Mercury Rule Called Illegal With the long-awaited release yesterday of its new rules for reducing mercury pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency set off a firestorm of protest and controversy that is certain to wind up in the courts. ... more March 11, 2005 The Age of Autism: Backward When Leo Kanner first identified autism as a unique developmental disorder in 1943, he was certain it was present from birth. ... more March 7, 2005 Merck Misled on Vaccines, Some Say Drug maker Merck & Co. continued to supply infant vaccine containing a mercury-based preservative for two years after declaring that it had eliminated the chemical. ... more February 28, 2005 Countries reject global mercury treaty A week-long meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, has failed to devise a global treaty to curb the production of mercury. ... more February 15, 2005 '91 Memo Warned of Mercury in Shots A memo from Merck & Co. shows that, nearly a decade before the first public disclosure, senior executives were concerned that infants were getting an elevated dose of mercury in vaccinations containing a widely used sterilizing agent. ... more February 14, 2005 Company's Cleanup of Polluted Bay May Not Purge Acrimony Even on a Texas coast peppered with working-class villages rarely visited by outsiders, Point Comfort has long stood out. ... more February 4, 2005 Scientists baffled as autism cases soar in state, with no relief in sight California's mysterious explosion of autism cases worsened in 2004, disappointing researchers who had hoped the number of new diagnoses would level off as they searched for an explanation for the neurological disorder. ... more February 4, 2005 EPA Inspector Finds Mercury Proposal Tainted The Environmental Protection Agency ignored scientific evidence and agency protocols in order to set limits on mercury pollution that would line up with the Bush administration's free-market approaches to power plant pollution, according to a report released yesterday by the agency's inspector general. ... more February 1, 2005 Chemical mixes can affect nerve growth When parents William and Bobbie Gallagher pressed government officials to investigate why their children and so many others here are autistic, they suggested it might be worth checking into pollution and environmental factors. ... more January 26, 2005 High Levels of Toxin Seen at 9 Chlorine Plants Mercury emissions may be as high as those at coal-fueled facilities, an environmental group reports. Companies are making gains, however. ... more January 9, 2005 Toxic Breast Milk? If human breast milk came stamped with an ingredients label, it might read something like this: 4 percent fat, vitamins A, C, E and K, lactose, essential minerals, growth hormones, proteins, enzymes and antibodies. ... more December 17, 2004 A Hidden Cost Of China's Growth: Mercury Migration On a recent hazy morning in eastern China, the Wuhu Shaoda power company revved up its production of electricity, burning a ton and a half of coal per minute to satisfy more than half the demand of Wuhu, an industrial city of two million people. ... more September 28, 2004 Mercury-free Vaccine Bill (AB 2943) Bill Signed by Governor Today Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 2943, authored by Assemblymember Fran Pavley, into law. The bill would prohibit the use of mercury in vaccines given to children under three years of age and pregnant women. ... more August 5, 2004 Autism Soaring in Maryland Marjorie Shulbank, a disabilities specialist in the State Department of Education, holds up a bar graph that looks like one side of a very steep mountain. "Every state in the union can show you the same thing," Shulbank says. ... more August 5, 2004 Toxic Lead and Violence The poisoning of children by the toxic metal, lead, was first reported in 1892.[1] ... more June 30, 2004 An unlikely cause of pollution in bay: dentists The largest controllable source of mercury to Bay Area sewage treatment plants comes from thousands of dentists flushing the toxic metal down the drain when they fill their patients' cavities -- but San Francisco officials expect these mercury levels to fall over the coming months. ... more May 17, 2004 IOWA FIRST TO BAN MERCURY FROM CHILDHOOD VACCINES IOWA - UNINFORMED CONSENT, – In the first of what promises to be a domino effect of like bans, Governor Thomas J. Vilsack of Iowa set national precedence Friday by signing into law a bill to ban the use of the notorious neurotoxin, Thimerosal (ethyl mercury) still used in childhood vaccines. ... more April 8, 2004 Truth Left Out of Vaccine Chances are slim that a flu vaccine with a form of mercury in it will harm infants and toddlers. But enough concerns have been raised about the preservative thimerosal that drug companies voluntarily took it out of most other childhood vaccines. ... more April 6, 2004 The Mercury Scandal If you want a single example that captures why so many people no longer believe in the good intentions of the Bush administration, look at the case of mercury pollution. ... more April 2, 2004 Mercury-laced shots OK for kids, CDC says Hundreds of thousands of infants and toddlers who get flu shots starting this fall could be exposed to a mercury-laced preservative that has been all but eliminated from other pediatric vaccines because of health concerns. ... more March 21, 2004 The bad math of mercury You have to wonder about the Bush White House and its poor handling of mercury-pollution rules that put the unborn at special risk. ... more February 6, 2004 Estimate of Fetuses Exposed to High Mercury Doubles WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency believes that about 630,000 f the roughly 4 million babies born annually in the United States twice as any as previously thought may be exposed to dangerous levels of mercury in he womb, according to an analysis released Thursday. ... more |
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