By DEENA CENTOFANTI myFOXDetroit.com Eight-year-old Parker Reed looks like any other kid, but critical therapy has changed his life. At two, he was diagnosed with autism. "He was about 18 months, and he had some words and then they kind of disappeared," said Amy Reed, Parker’s mother. As Parker struggled to...
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The Lancet released a statement this month retracting the 1998 paper by Wakefield, the doctor who claimed the vaccinations where the cause of Autism. Following the judgment of the UK General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise Panel on Jan 28, 2010, it has become clear that several elements of the 1998 paper by Wakefield et...
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By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News, San Diego Singing words made it easier for stroke patients to communicate Teaching stroke patients to sing “rewires” their brains, helping them recover their speech, say scientists. By singing, patients use a different area of the brain from the area involved in speech. If a...
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Whether measles shot was alone or in combination didn’t matter, researchers say FRIDAY, Feb. 12 (Health Day News) — One more study finds that the measles vaccine — given alone or as part of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine — does not increase the risk of autism in children. The new findings come...
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Thought I would share this great article written by Stuart Laidlaw and Megan Ogilvie in the Star this week. Read on. Stuart Laidlaw Megan Ogilvie staff Reporters Jeanette Holden remembers her parents struggling to comprehend why her younger brother had autism. Family vacations could be a desperate search for someone, anyone, who...
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From USA Today A British medical council has ruled that a doctor who claimed links between a common children’s vaccine and autism acted dishonestly and unethically in his research. Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Lancet study suggesting a link between autism and the combined measles-mumps-rubella vaccinations caused...
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