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The Age of Autism: 'A pretty big secret'

United Press International

by Dan Olmsted

December 7, 2005

CHICAGO -- It's a far piece from the horse-and-buggies of Lancaster County, Pa., to the cars and freeways of Cook County, Ill.

But thousands of children cared for by Homefirst Health Services in metropolitan Chicago have at least two things in common with thousands of Amish children in rural Lancaster: They have never been vaccinated. And they don't have autism. Homefirst doctors have delivered more than 15,000 babies at home, and thousands of them have never been vaccinated.

Nurses don't have to get flu vaccines

The Seattle Times

by Warren King

January 6, 2006

A federal judge in Seattle Thursday agreed that nurses at Virginia Mason Medical Center still won't have to choose between refusing a flu shot or keeping their jobs - even though most of them have chosen to get the shots after all.

U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman ruled that a labor arbitrator had the authority to rule last August that the hospital couldn't force its more than 600 nurses to receive the shots as a "fitness for duty" requirement.

U. closes in on the genetics of autism

Deseret News (UT)

by Lois M. Collins

January 16, 2006

University of Utah researchers believe they know the general area where one gene that causes autism may lie. But they need the help of families with at least one member who has the behavioral disorder.

The researchers used DNA from thousands of genes to conclude that a region on chromosome 3 probably is home to a gene causing autism. The scientists reached that conclusion by tracing variations in the DNA of a multi-generational Utah family that has an unusually high occurrence of autism. They looked at 31 members of the family, which is of Northern European descent and all descended from one couple. Seven of those members have autism or a related disorder.

Doctor: Wrong medication to blame in autism death

NEPA News

January 18, 2006

A 5-year-old autistic boy died because the wrong medication was administered during a controversial treatment for the disorder, a doctor at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Abubakar Tariq Nadama, of Monroeville, died Aug. 23 in his doctor's office because he was given the wrong medication, not because of the therapy itself, Dr. Mary Jean Brown said Tuesday. Chelation therapy involves injecting a synthetic amino acid called EDTA into the body, which is supposed to clean out heavy metals from the bloodstream so they can be dispelled through urine.

Flu Bug Wins the War on Drugs

The Trumpet (OK)

by Mark Jenkins

January 22, 2006

Antiviral drugs have been rendered obsolete by viruses that are becoming resistant in startlingly quick fashion. Not a reassuring development as the world sits on the cusp of a pandemic.

The first time I heard that the flu bug was becoming resistant to medications, I was in sixth grade. Our teacher tended to wander away from the usual topics a bit, and that particular digression struck me as especially frightening as she spelled out a doomsday scenario where no medication would or could protect my classmates and me from violent illnessâ€"perhaps even death. But there was no epidemic that year.

Parents' fears over plan to give under-twos the flu jab

Scotsman (UK)

January 22, 2006

HEALTH experts are considering plans to give all children under the age of two the flu jab, it emerged yesterday.

The plan would mean inoculating thousands of toddlers in order to protect the wider population from the annual seasonal flu, which affects between 5 and 10 per cent of the population every winter and killed more than 1,000 people in the UK last year.

Treasure Valley Health Expert Warns Against Pox Parties

KBCI (ID)

by Starlyn Klein

January 22, 2006

BOISE - At least one Treasure Valley health expert is warning against adults hosting parties that intentially infect children with chicken pox.

They're called pox parties and children with chicken pox are invited to hang out with kids who haven't caught the disease yet. Some parents think intentionally exposing kids to chicken pox at a young age does less harm than if they catch it naturally at an older age.

Ricin vaccine 'shown to be safe'

BBC News (UK)

January 31, 2006

A vaccine against the deadly toxin ricin is safe and effective, a US study has shown.

Ricin, extracted from castor oil beans, is one of the weapons which could be used in a bio-terror attack. US research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggested the vaccine produced no significant side effects.

Helping beautiful minds

The Hindu

February 1, 2006

Autism is the new multi-system disorder on the rise in children. Padmini B. Patell looks into the cause, detection and cure

Dr. Praveen. K. Saxenaa does not recollect coming across the word autism during his MBBS course. But when things did not seem quite normal with his first-born, he began to delve into possibilities. It was then that autism stared him in the face leaving him and his wife shattered.

Influenza Vaccinations of Young Children Increased With Media Coverage in 2003

Pediatrics

February 1, 2006

We sought to evaluate the impact of intense influenza media coverage during the 2003â€"2004 influenza season on the influenza vaccination status of children 6 to 59 months of age.

Of 256 enrolled children, 98 (38%) parents reported that their child had received the 2003-2004 influenza vaccine, and 64 (65%) had confirmed influenza vaccination dates. Unlike the previous influenza season in which confirmed influenza vaccination dates from a similar study population were distributed more evenly from October through December, most children (75%) with confirmed vaccination dates received the vaccine after the media coverage in mid-November.

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