Dan Swearingen | November 10, 2009
Where: UC Berkeley Art Museum Theatre, 2625 Durant Ave. Berkeley, California
When: Saturday, November 21, 2009, from 9 am to 4 pm
Sponsors: SageFemme, Ryder Foundation, Midwifery Today, Autism Recovery Consortium
Tickets: $60 until 11/20 then $75 and may be purchased through Everbrite: http://makinghealthybabies.eventbrite.com
The 2009 CIA World Factbook ranks the USA 45th among nations for infant mortality— the [...]
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Dan Swearingen | June 15, 2009
David kirby in Huffington Post comments on Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Rep. Christopher Smith’s (R-NJ) calls on HHS to fund comparative studies on vaccinated vs. un-vaccinated children but i think the most interesting part of the article is tacked on at the end:
Seven studies to watch
APPROVED STUDIES:
1) The National CADDRE Study — This 5-year [...]
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Dan Swearingen | June 11, 2009
In the Huffington Post today David Kirby writes
US Government officials are finally getting serious about studying all potential environmental factors in autism, and I for one applaud them heartily for leaving no etiological stone unturned.
Kirby is writing about the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation or EARLI study. See their website.
See NIH Autism Study to Leave [...]
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Dan Swearingen | June 9, 2009
In the June 22 issue of Forbes is an article by Elisabeth Eaves about Simon Baron-Cohen (academic brother of comedian Sasha Baron-Cohen) which discusses his research and his idea that the Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) brain is an extreme version of the male brain.
Baron-Cohen and his researchers feel the currrent incidence of ASD is 156 [...]
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Janet Lawson, MFT | June 6, 2009
This is one of those articles that makes me wonder what the heck researchers think they’re going to find when they start their projects? Kind of like doing a study to discover the sky is blue, or that water is wet!
Breaking News: Mothers of ASD Teens are Stressed Out
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Dan Swearingen | June 5, 2009
I don’t know whether vaccines are related to any increase in cases of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) seen in recent years. I agree there are very probably genetic factors but I feel there must also be some sort of environmental trigger at play as well.
Is there really an increase in ASD? There is definitely an [...]
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