In the wake of The Lancet medical journal fully retracting its 1998 study suggesting a link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism, we spoke with New York Times public health reporter Gardiner Harris for some perspective on the significance. _pap_embed_custom('news01s3a62qdbe',482,304,""); The study's ...
... WEB-ONLY- Hari Sreenivasan gives a tour of new and related features on the site, including: The Lancet's formal retraction of a study linking autism to a vaccine; a Global Post comparison of how other countries handle gays in the military; and a poem on the housing crisis. All ...
... to the FDA. But doubts in the public have persisted, despite the results of that investigation. "We can't come up with answers for the Autism epidemic or our poor veterans who suffered from Gulf War Syndrome," said Buck. "I don't know if it's connected [to vaccines] but ...
... not a love potion. "The holy grail is a drug that might be able to enhance the social abilities of people with social disorders like autism." In his lab at Yerkes, Young studies rodents called prairie voles. Unlike 95 percent of mammals, prairie voles mate for life. "They form a ...
... the Pakistani government acknowledged that the Mumbai assault was launched from its territory. A special U.S. court rejected claims that combination vaccines have caused autism in children. The court ruled the evidence offered by three families was, quote, "weak, contradictory and unpersuasive." The outcome was a blow to parents ...
... dock; coaches Little League, and raises money for the mentally and physically disabled. Toni is a schoolteacher, working toward her Master's Degree. They have two sons, the youngest, Luke, has been diagnosed with autism. Their lives should matter to the people they elect to office. They matter to me.
... 1920s. American families by the millions are struggling with soaring health care costs and declining coverage. I will never forget the parents of children with autism and other severe conditions who told me on the campaign trail that they couldn't afford health care and couldn't qualify their kids ...
... to become part of your lives. And you became part of mine.I will always remember the single mom who had adopted two kids with autism, didn't have health insurance and discovered she had cancer. But she greeted me with her bald head painted with my name on it ...
... of the environment. For myself, I've now -- I'm now studying tiny brain cells and brain tissue for trying to understand the causes of autism and Alzheimer's Disease so there are a lot of very practical applications. Now, the Department of Energy -- the reason why this is something ...
... ORTIZ: We may indeed see an explanation that cannot be explained simply by genetic or familial factors of this huge increase in certain chronic diseases. Autism is at a huge and alarming rate across the country, particularly in California. We're seeing types of cancers that are so rare and ...
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