Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Sunday, 27 January 2008
Paediatricians attempts to censor Thimerosal story
PEDIATRICIANS DEMAND CENSORSHIP FROM ABC
By JB Handley
Pediatricians, ABC and Censorship: Facts Are Scarier Than Fiction
By David Kirby
On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics will release the contents of a foreboding letter sent last week to ABC/Disney executives, demanding they cancel the January 31 premiere of a new legal drama series, "Eli Stone," because it features a family attorney who successfully argues in court that mercury-containing flu vaccine caused autism in one child
LETTER FROM ANNE DACHEL
Dear Dr. Jenkins,
Many in the autism community are stunned by the position of the American Academy of Pediatrics over the upcoming ABC series "Eli Stone." Your letter to ABC executives asking them to not to air the program which deals with the controversial claim that vaccines with the mercury cause autism indicates just how heated this issue is, but I don't think that censorship tactics will restore the public's trust in the vaccine program.
For years as we watched the autism rate soar from one in 10,000 in the 1970s to one in every 150 children today, the AAP failed to sound any alarm. As more and more children with autism filled doctors' waiting rooms, the AAP happily announced that the epidemic rate was due to "better diagnosing." When parents asked for guidance about the disorder that took away their children, they heard few answers, except that the cause was genetic.
The only thing the AAP has been able to tell the public for sure is that autism isn't the result of the vaccines that their child received. Even though the dramatically expanded vaccine schedule since the 1980s meant that children were exposed to horrendous levels of known toxins like mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde, we were assured that all the studies show no link.
Your letter announces, "No scientific link exists between vaccines and autism." The modern-day population studies that play with the numbers and show that children vaccinated with mercury aren't more likely to have autism have failed to settle anything. The tobacco industry used studies like this in the 1940s and 50s as proof that smoking didn't cause lung cancer. They can be made to say anything the researchers want.
The American Academy of Pediatrics can't do the one thing that could settle the debate. They can't produce the results of the rigorous toxicity testing done on thimerosal seventy-five years ago BEFORE it was ever allowed in our children's vaccines. They do that because there was none. All the modern studies in the world can't make up for that oversight failure.
The issue here isn't the science, it's liability: Who will be held responsible if it's shown that through gross malfeasance a generation of children has been damaged by dangerous vaccines? Instead of protecting our children and calling attention to the epidemic of autism, the AAP is working to keep the issue from the attention of the public.
BELOW are a few stories taken from recent news accounts from around the U.S.
Every time stories like these come out, more questions are raised. Fewer and fewer parents will be willing to risk the health and happiness or their children when officials can tell us so little.
(By coincidence, yesterday these two stories citing vaccine damage appeared in the press:
Alert over jab for girls as two die following cervical cancer vaccinationhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=510221&in_page_id=1774&ct=5
U of M researcher links asthma, early vaccinationsWinnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada)
As the evidence mounts, the AAP seems to make self-protection a priority, not our children.
Anne McElroy Dachel
By JB Handley
Pediatricians, ABC and Censorship: Facts Are Scarier Than Fiction
By David Kirby
On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics will release the contents of a foreboding letter sent last week to ABC/Disney executives, demanding they cancel the January 31 premiere of a new legal drama series, "Eli Stone," because it features a family attorney who successfully argues in court that mercury-containing flu vaccine caused autism in one child
LETTER FROM ANNE DACHEL
Dear Dr. Jenkins,
Many in the autism community are stunned by the position of the American Academy of Pediatrics over the upcoming ABC series "Eli Stone." Your letter to ABC executives asking them to not to air the program which deals with the controversial claim that vaccines with the mercury cause autism indicates just how heated this issue is, but I don't think that censorship tactics will restore the public's trust in the vaccine program.
For years as we watched the autism rate soar from one in 10,000 in the 1970s to one in every 150 children today, the AAP failed to sound any alarm. As more and more children with autism filled doctors' waiting rooms, the AAP happily announced that the epidemic rate was due to "better diagnosing." When parents asked for guidance about the disorder that took away their children, they heard few answers, except that the cause was genetic.
The only thing the AAP has been able to tell the public for sure is that autism isn't the result of the vaccines that their child received. Even though the dramatically expanded vaccine schedule since the 1980s meant that children were exposed to horrendous levels of known toxins like mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde, we were assured that all the studies show no link.
Your letter announces, "No scientific link exists between vaccines and autism." The modern-day population studies that play with the numbers and show that children vaccinated with mercury aren't more likely to have autism have failed to settle anything. The tobacco industry used studies like this in the 1940s and 50s as proof that smoking didn't cause lung cancer. They can be made to say anything the researchers want.
The American Academy of Pediatrics can't do the one thing that could settle the debate. They can't produce the results of the rigorous toxicity testing done on thimerosal seventy-five years ago BEFORE it was ever allowed in our children's vaccines. They do that because there was none. All the modern studies in the world can't make up for that oversight failure.
The issue here isn't the science, it's liability: Who will be held responsible if it's shown that through gross malfeasance a generation of children has been damaged by dangerous vaccines? Instead of protecting our children and calling attention to the epidemic of autism, the AAP is working to keep the issue from the attention of the public.
BELOW are a few stories taken from recent news accounts from around the U.S.
Every time stories like these come out, more questions are raised. Fewer and fewer parents will be willing to risk the health and happiness or their children when officials can tell us so little.
(By coincidence, yesterday these two stories citing vaccine damage appeared in the press:
Alert over jab for girls as two die following cervical cancer vaccinationhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=510221&in_page_id=1774&ct=5
U of M researcher links asthma, early vaccinationsWinnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada)
As the evidence mounts, the AAP seems to make self-protection a priority, not our children.
Anne McElroy Dachel
Attempts to manipulate TV Drama by Big Pharma
The public may be shocked to learn that Big Pharma and the medics associated with it, influence the fiction that goes onto our screens in soaps etc. Many a medic with various vested interests helps advise on stories for TV dramas.
Furthermore, sometimes certain programmes make it through production and onto our TV screens without such groups knowing until its too late to stop production. When they do discover something has slipped through the net they galvanise all resources to prevent it going ahead or interfere with the message of the programme itself.
In the UK we had Judge John Deed as a BBC legal drama which had the nerve to include stories about MMR, vaccine trials in the Third World and other delicate matters. It has now disappeared. If anyone can find the DVD I would like a copy.
Now the US ABC network has been attacked for the story in it's legal series due to start on the 31st of this month because it features a family who win their case that their child was affected by the Thimerosal in his early vaccine.
Read David Kirby's excellent piece on this latest attempt to suppress freedom of speech about vaccines.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/pediatricians-abc-and-ce_b_83472.html
Furthermore, sometimes certain programmes make it through production and onto our TV screens without such groups knowing until its too late to stop production. When they do discover something has slipped through the net they galvanise all resources to prevent it going ahead or interfere with the message of the programme itself.
In the UK we had Judge John Deed as a BBC legal drama which had the nerve to include stories about MMR, vaccine trials in the Third World and other delicate matters. It has now disappeared. If anyone can find the DVD I would like a copy.
Now the US ABC network has been attacked for the story in it's legal series due to start on the 31st of this month because it features a family who win their case that their child was affected by the Thimerosal in his early vaccine.
Read David Kirby's excellent piece on this latest attempt to suppress freedom of speech about vaccines.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/pediatricians-abc-and-ce_b_83472.html
Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Vitamin C protects against Heavy Metal Poisoning and reduces behaviour disorders
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 8, 2007
Vitamin Supplements Help Protect Children from Heavy Metals, Reduce Behavioral Disorders
(OMNS October 8, 2007) The ability of vitamin C to protect animals from heavy metal poisoning is well established. Recent controlled trials with yeast, fish, mice, rats, chickens, clams, guinea pigs, and turkeys all came to the same conclusion: Vitamin C protects growing animals from heavy metals poisoning. [1-7]
Benefits with an animal model do not always translate to equal benefits for humans. In this case, however, the benefit has been proven for a wide range of animals. The odds that vitamin C will protect human children are high.
There is a virtual epidemic of behavior problems, learning disabilities, ADHD and autism, and the number of children receiving special education services continues to rise steeply. Although not all causes are yet identified, growing evidence suggests that heavy metal pollution is a significant factor, and vitamin C is part of the solution.
Dr. Erik Paterson, of British Columbia, reports:
"When I was a consulting physician for a center for the mentally challenged, a patient showing behavioral changes was found to have blood lead some ten times higher than the acceptable levels. I administered vitamin C at a dose of 4,000 mg/day. I anticipated a slow response. The following year I rechecked his blood lead level. It had gone up, much to my initial dismay. But then I thought that perhaps what was happening was that the vitamin C was mobilizing the lead from his tissues. So we persisted. The next year, on rechecking, the lead levels had markedly dropped to well below the initial result. As the years went by, the levels became almost undetectable, and his behavior was markedly improved."
World-wide, coal and high sulfur fuel oil combustion release close to 300,000 tons per year of heavy metals, 100,000 tons of which are considered hazardous air pollutants by the US Environmental Protection Agency. [8] This includes arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, mercury, manganese, nickel, lead, antimony, selenium, uranium, and thorium. These metals are also released to the air by the industrial processes that mine and refine metal-containing ores.
Heavy metals dispersed in the air as invisible particles are blown by the winds and therefore become widely dispersed. Few mothers or children can avoid both contaminated air and food, helping to explain why behavior problems are striking rich and poor alike.
University of Victoria professor Harold Foster, PhD, says, "Pregnant women need special protection because their fetus may be poisoned in the womb, so interfering with its development. In addition to vitamin C, nutrient minerals are also protective against heavy metal toxins. For example, selenium is antagonistic to (and so protective against) arsenic, mercury and cadmium."
Metals have always been a part of the environment, and our bodies have evolved methods to protect against them. This process involves vitamin-dependent metabolic pathways. [9] Additional vitamin intake, through the use of nutrient supplementation, can help speed up the removal process. Daily consumption of additional vitamin C and selenium is likely to protect children by helping to eliminate heavy metals from their bodies. One easy and inexpensive way to increase intake of these nutrients is by taking a vitamin C supplement with each meal, along with a multivitamin containing selenium. Vitamin supplements are remarkably safe for children. [10]
References:
[1] Borane VR, Zambare SP. Role of ascorbic acid in lead and cadmium induced changes on the blood glucose level of the freshwater fish, Channa orientalis. Journal of Aquatic Biology, 2006. 21(2), 244-248.
[2] Gajawat, Sunita; Sancheti, Garima; Goyal, P. K. Vitamin C against concomitant exposure to heavy metal and radiation: a study on variations in hepatic cellular counts. Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences, 2005. 19(2), 53-58.
[3] Shousha, Wafaa Gh. The curative and protective effects of L-ascorbic acid & zinc sulphate on thyroid dysfunction and lipid peroxidation in cadmium-intoxicated rats. Egyptian Journal of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 2004. 22(1), 1-16.
[4] Vasiljeva, Svetlana; Berzina, Nadezda; Remeza, Inesa. Changes in chicken immunity induced by cadmium, and the protective effect of ascorbic acid. Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Section B: Natural, Exact and Applied Sciences, 2003. 57(6), 232-237.
[5] Mahajan, A. Y.; Zambare, S. P. Ascorbate effect on copper sulphate and mercuric chloride induced alterations of protein levels in freshwater bivalve Corbicula striatella. Asian Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology & Environmental Sciences, 2001. 3(1-2), 95-100.
[6] Norwood, Joel, Jr.; Ledbetter, Alan D.; Doerfler, Donald L.; Hatch, Gary E. Residual oil fly ash inhalation in guinea pigs: influence of ascorbate and glutathione depletion. Toxicological Sciences, 2001. 61(1), 144-153.
[7] Guillot, I.; Bernard, P.; Rambeck, W. A. Influence of vitamin C on the retention of cadmium in turkeys. Tiergesundheitsdienst Bayern, Germany. Editors: Schubert, Flachowsky, Bitsch. Vitamine und Zusatzstoffe in der Ernaehrung von Mensch und Tier, Symposium, 5th, Jena, Sept. 28-29, 1995, 233-237.
[8] EPA Study on Nickel Releases from Burning Coal (The study shows about 10% of nickel in coal is released to the air. The press release estimates 10% of the other metals in coal with similar properties to nickel are also released to the air.) http://www.orthomolecular.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=61&e=MjQzMTM=&l=http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/le/nickel.pdf
[9] Lewinska, Anna; Bartosz, Grzegorz. Protection of yeast lacking the Ure2 protein against the toxicity of heavy metals and hydroperoxides by antioxidants. Free Radical Research, 2007. 41(5), 580-590.
[10] Saul AW. Vitamins and food supplements: safe and effective. Testimony before the Government of Canada, 38th Parliament, 1st Session, Standing Committee on Health. Ottawa, May 12, 2005. http://www.orthomolecular.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=61&e=MjQzMTM=&l=http://www.doctoryourself.com/testimony.htm
Vitamins are safe.
There is not even one death per year from vitamin supplementation. http://www.orthomolecular.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=61&e=MjQzMTM=&l=http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v03n04.shtml
Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine
Linus Pauling defined orthomolecular medicine as "the treatment of disease by the provision of the optimum molecular environment, especially the optimum concentrations of substances normally present in the human body." Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=61&e=MjQzMTM=&l=http://www.orthomolecular.org/
The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit and non-commercial informational resource.
Editorial Review Board:
Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.Harold D. Foster, Ph.D.Bradford Weeks, M.D.Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D.Erik Paterson, M.D.Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D.Steve Hickey, Ph.D.
Andrew W. Saul, Editor and contact person. email: drsaul@doctoryourself.com .
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 8, 2007
Vitamin Supplements Help Protect Children from Heavy Metals, Reduce Behavioral Disorders
(OMNS October 8, 2007) The ability of vitamin C to protect animals from heavy metal poisoning is well established. Recent controlled trials with yeast, fish, mice, rats, chickens, clams, guinea pigs, and turkeys all came to the same conclusion: Vitamin C protects growing animals from heavy metals poisoning. [1-7]
Benefits with an animal model do not always translate to equal benefits for humans. In this case, however, the benefit has been proven for a wide range of animals. The odds that vitamin C will protect human children are high.
There is a virtual epidemic of behavior problems, learning disabilities, ADHD and autism, and the number of children receiving special education services continues to rise steeply. Although not all causes are yet identified, growing evidence suggests that heavy metal pollution is a significant factor, and vitamin C is part of the solution.
Dr. Erik Paterson, of British Columbia, reports:
"When I was a consulting physician for a center for the mentally challenged, a patient showing behavioral changes was found to have blood lead some ten times higher than the acceptable levels. I administered vitamin C at a dose of 4,000 mg/day. I anticipated a slow response. The following year I rechecked his blood lead level. It had gone up, much to my initial dismay. But then I thought that perhaps what was happening was that the vitamin C was mobilizing the lead from his tissues. So we persisted. The next year, on rechecking, the lead levels had markedly dropped to well below the initial result. As the years went by, the levels became almost undetectable, and his behavior was markedly improved."
World-wide, coal and high sulfur fuel oil combustion release close to 300,000 tons per year of heavy metals, 100,000 tons of which are considered hazardous air pollutants by the US Environmental Protection Agency. [8] This includes arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, mercury, manganese, nickel, lead, antimony, selenium, uranium, and thorium. These metals are also released to the air by the industrial processes that mine and refine metal-containing ores.
Heavy metals dispersed in the air as invisible particles are blown by the winds and therefore become widely dispersed. Few mothers or children can avoid both contaminated air and food, helping to explain why behavior problems are striking rich and poor alike.
University of Victoria professor Harold Foster, PhD, says, "Pregnant women need special protection because their fetus may be poisoned in the womb, so interfering with its development. In addition to vitamin C, nutrient minerals are also protective against heavy metal toxins. For example, selenium is antagonistic to (and so protective against) arsenic, mercury and cadmium."
Metals have always been a part of the environment, and our bodies have evolved methods to protect against them. This process involves vitamin-dependent metabolic pathways. [9] Additional vitamin intake, through the use of nutrient supplementation, can help speed up the removal process. Daily consumption of additional vitamin C and selenium is likely to protect children by helping to eliminate heavy metals from their bodies. One easy and inexpensive way to increase intake of these nutrients is by taking a vitamin C supplement with each meal, along with a multivitamin containing selenium. Vitamin supplements are remarkably safe for children. [10]
References:
[1] Borane VR, Zambare SP. Role of ascorbic acid in lead and cadmium induced changes on the blood glucose level of the freshwater fish, Channa orientalis. Journal of Aquatic Biology, 2006. 21(2), 244-248.
[2] Gajawat, Sunita; Sancheti, Garima; Goyal, P. K. Vitamin C against concomitant exposure to heavy metal and radiation: a study on variations in hepatic cellular counts. Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences, 2005. 19(2), 53-58.
[3] Shousha, Wafaa Gh. The curative and protective effects of L-ascorbic acid & zinc sulphate on thyroid dysfunction and lipid peroxidation in cadmium-intoxicated rats. Egyptian Journal of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 2004. 22(1), 1-16.
[4] Vasiljeva, Svetlana; Berzina, Nadezda; Remeza, Inesa. Changes in chicken immunity induced by cadmium, and the protective effect of ascorbic acid. Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Section B: Natural, Exact and Applied Sciences, 2003. 57(6), 232-237.
[5] Mahajan, A. Y.; Zambare, S. P. Ascorbate effect on copper sulphate and mercuric chloride induced alterations of protein levels in freshwater bivalve Corbicula striatella. Asian Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology & Environmental Sciences, 2001. 3(1-2), 95-100.
[6] Norwood, Joel, Jr.; Ledbetter, Alan D.; Doerfler, Donald L.; Hatch, Gary E. Residual oil fly ash inhalation in guinea pigs: influence of ascorbate and glutathione depletion. Toxicological Sciences, 2001. 61(1), 144-153.
[7] Guillot, I.; Bernard, P.; Rambeck, W. A. Influence of vitamin C on the retention of cadmium in turkeys. Tiergesundheitsdienst Bayern, Germany. Editors: Schubert, Flachowsky, Bitsch. Vitamine und Zusatzstoffe in der Ernaehrung von Mensch und Tier, Symposium, 5th, Jena, Sept. 28-29, 1995, 233-237.
[8] EPA Study on Nickel Releases from Burning Coal (The study shows about 10% of nickel in coal is released to the air. The press release estimates 10% of the other metals in coal with similar properties to nickel are also released to the air.) http://www.orthomolecular.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=61&e=MjQzMTM=&l=http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/le/nickel.pdf
[9] Lewinska, Anna; Bartosz, Grzegorz. Protection of yeast lacking the Ure2 protein against the toxicity of heavy metals and hydroperoxides by antioxidants. Free Radical Research, 2007. 41(5), 580-590.
[10] Saul AW. Vitamins and food supplements: safe and effective. Testimony before the Government of Canada, 38th Parliament, 1st Session, Standing Committee on Health. Ottawa, May 12, 2005. http://www.orthomolecular.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=61&e=MjQzMTM=&l=http://www.doctoryourself.com/testimony.htm
Vitamins are safe.
There is not even one death per year from vitamin supplementation. http://www.orthomolecular.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=61&e=MjQzMTM=&l=http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v03n04.shtml
Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine
Linus Pauling defined orthomolecular medicine as "the treatment of disease by the provision of the optimum molecular environment, especially the optimum concentrations of substances normally present in the human body." Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=61&e=MjQzMTM=&l=http://www.orthomolecular.org/
The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit and non-commercial informational resource.
Editorial Review Board:
Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.Harold D. Foster, Ph.D.Bradford Weeks, M.D.Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D.Erik Paterson, M.D.Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D.Steve Hickey, Ph.D.
Andrew W. Saul, Editor and contact person. email: drsaul@doctoryourself.com .
Monday, 1 October 2007
Friday, 28 September 2007
Journal Watch on limitations of Thimerosal Study in New England Journal
Thimerosal and Neurotoxicity
The effect of mercury exposure in children once again proves difficult to determine.
Considerable controversy surrounds the question of whether mercury preservatives in vaccines, such as thimerosal, are associated with impaired behaviors or cognition in children (see Journal Watch Psychiatry Aug 4 2004). These researchers examined 42 measures of neuropsychological and behavioral functioning in children aged 7 to 10 years from four HMOs. Using histories of vaccination, immunoglobulin experience, and other records, the researchers retrospectively calculated mercury exposure at three time points: neonatal (i.e., maternal), the first 28 days of life, and the first 7 months.
Children with low birth weight, meningitis, encephalitis, or other serious neurological diagnoses were excluded. The 1047 tested children represented only 30% of those eligible. Children of parents with the highest socioeconomic indicators had the highest exposure. Small yet significant negative and positive associations, some sex-specific, were identified between some individual neuropsychological tests and thimerosal exposure.
Comment: The authors, who expertly analyzed these data statistically, conclude that thimerosal does not produce meaningful clinical problems. However, the validity of this conclusion needs to be questioned because of possible confounding in the study sample. First, only 30% of cases were studied; how these cases may have differed from those who did not participate was not discussed. Second, the data were collected retrospectively. Third, the cases that were excluded — e.g., low-birth-weight babies — might be the ones most vulnerable to the effect of a neuroactive substance, but this issue was not addressed. Finally, the threshold dose for neurological impairment is unknown; therefore, to dismiss the vaccines given between ages 12 months and 7 years may be premature. Parents who ask about this issue still need to be informed of the complexities of studying this problem.
— Barbara Geller, MD
Published in Journal Watch Psychiatry September 26, 2007
Citation(s):
Thompson WW et al. Early thimerosal exposure and neuropsychological outcomes at 7 to 10 years. N Engl J Med 2007 Sep 27; 357:1281.
Original article (Subscription may be required)
Medline abstract (Free)
The effect of mercury exposure in children once again proves difficult to determine.
Considerable controversy surrounds the question of whether mercury preservatives in vaccines, such as thimerosal, are associated with impaired behaviors or cognition in children (see Journal Watch Psychiatry Aug 4 2004). These researchers examined 42 measures of neuropsychological and behavioral functioning in children aged 7 to 10 years from four HMOs. Using histories of vaccination, immunoglobulin experience, and other records, the researchers retrospectively calculated mercury exposure at three time points: neonatal (i.e., maternal), the first 28 days of life, and the first 7 months.
Children with low birth weight, meningitis, encephalitis, or other serious neurological diagnoses were excluded. The 1047 tested children represented only 30% of those eligible. Children of parents with the highest socioeconomic indicators had the highest exposure. Small yet significant negative and positive associations, some sex-specific, were identified between some individual neuropsychological tests and thimerosal exposure.
Comment: The authors, who expertly analyzed these data statistically, conclude that thimerosal does not produce meaningful clinical problems. However, the validity of this conclusion needs to be questioned because of possible confounding in the study sample. First, only 30% of cases were studied; how these cases may have differed from those who did not participate was not discussed. Second, the data were collected retrospectively. Third, the cases that were excluded — e.g., low-birth-weight babies — might be the ones most vulnerable to the effect of a neuroactive substance, but this issue was not addressed. Finally, the threshold dose for neurological impairment is unknown; therefore, to dismiss the vaccines given between ages 12 months and 7 years may be premature. Parents who ask about this issue still need to be informed of the complexities of studying this problem.
— Barbara Geller, MD
Published in Journal Watch Psychiatry September 26, 2007
Citation(s):
Thompson WW et al. Early thimerosal exposure and neuropsychological outcomes at 7 to 10 years. N Engl J Med 2007 Sep 27; 357:1281.
Original article (Subscription may be required)
Medline abstract (Free)
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