Dear Santa

Chantal Sicile-Kira, 12.24.2009

Chantal Sicile-Kira writes and speaks, mostly about autism. www.chantalsicile-kira.com.

Dear Santa, This year, I am not asking for a cure for breast cancer, or cures for world hunger, ignorance, the crappy world economy, homelessness, th...

Wake up Medical Establishment: There's an Autism Epidemic!

Dr. Bob Sears, 12.21.2009

Pediatrician and author of "The Vaccine Book"

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study last week that reveals a dramatic increase in the incidence of autism over just a four-year period.

Healthy Food: Where Hope Begins

Robyn O'Brien, 12.18.2009

Author of The Unhealthy Truth

We consume more pharmaceutical drugs than any other country, and we consume more chemicals in our food supply than the cows in France. Our lives have been devalued.

Your Health Insurer Now Has Plans (and Permission) to Rob You Blind

Evan Handler, 12.17.2009

Actor, author, screenwriter, and journalist

While cutting benefits available to those that need them, Blue Cross of California will simultaneously be raising the cost to employers of purchasing coverage for their workers.

Those Kids

Liane Kupferberg Carter, 12.15.2009

Can one really teach empathy? I'm not sure. My child isn't isn't a charity case. He isn't a community project. He's a kind-hearted, teen-age boy who enjoys having friends. And he happens to have autism.

Coming Out of the Closet ... About Being Autistic

Mike Elk, 12.15.2009

Campaign for America's Future

What I have come to realize is that every mind has a unique shape. There are two minds that are alike so labeling someone as crazy is just simply insane.

Antipsychotic Medication Use In Children And Adolescents: What's A Parent To Do?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, 12.04.2009

Antipsychotic medication research asked if there were significant changes in three important physical measures: weight, lipids, and insulin resistance. Their results were disturbing.

Dr. Paul Offit: Pope Of The Church Of The Immaculate Vaccination

Kim Stagliano, 12.01.2009

Author "All I Can Handle. I'm No Mother Teresa." Fall 2010 Skyhorse Publishing

Wired, "The magazine of the digital future" writing about vaccination? The only digit here is Dr. Offit waving his middle finger at the vaccine safety community.

J'Accuse: 300,000 Newborn Children Are Damaged Each Year in America by Inadequate Health Care and Environmental Impacts

Dan Agin, 11.23.2009

Author/Neuroscientist

Approximately 4 million live children are born each year in America, and by age six more than 15 percent of those children have clinically recognized ...

How Does It Feel To Be Told You Can't Have A Test?

Kim Stagliano, 11.20.2009

Author "All I Can Handle. I'm No Mother Teresa." Fall 2010 Skyhorse Publishing

America, how does it feel to wake up and learn that you can't have healthcare tests that you think you or your loved one needs?

Top Autism Panel Backs Research Objectives Mentioning Vaccines -- Dueling Press Releases Ensue

David Kirby, 11.13.2009

Author/Journalist

The IACC, Washington's leading arbiter for directing federal funds to autism research, unanimously voted to recommend studies that include investigations into possible links between autism vaccines.

A Question of Harm -- The Legacy of Vaccination

Tim Ellis, 11.06.2009

Co-founder and director of Nocturnal Commissions

The anti-vaccination movement has picked up steam in the past few years, and authorities now believe that pockets of unvaccinated children are forming. This is beginning to have deadly results.

Thimerosol in Flu Vaccines? America's Mercury Habit is Nothing New

Peter Christian Hall, 11.06.2009

Peter Christian Hall’s online pandemic flu novel appears daily at AmericanFeverBook.com

By some views, it's just as possible that sunscreen -- and sun avoidance -- is causing far more harm than mercury ever did.

A Decade Of Questioning Harm And The Autism-Vaccine Connection

Shelley Hendrix Reynolds, 11.04.2009

Shelley Hendrix Reynolds graduated with a Bachelors of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College in S ...

For over a decade, I've relentlessly searched for answers to the connections I believe exist between my son's autism and vaccines he received.

The (New) Great Debate

Dr. Cara Natterson, 11.04.2009

Pediatrician and Author

In my office, when parents tell me they just want to wait before they give their children vaccines, I explain that this is a choice not to vaccinate.

Our Kids: More Than a Sales Channel for Big Pharma

Robyn O'Brien, 10.22.2009

Author of The Unhealthy Truth

We've got 80,000 chemicals in our everyday products here in the US, but the EPA has required testing on only 200 of them. Is it any wonder that the health of American children is under siege?

NIH Director Francis Collins Blames Resignation Of Top Health Official From Autism Panel On "Tension And Lack Of Trust"

David Kirby, 10.22.2009

Author/Journalist

Dr. Landis resigned from the IACC on Saturday after the Age of Autism blog published handwritten notes - assumed to be written by Dr. Landis - speculating on the motives of an autism mother and IACC member.

Cloudy With a Chance of Allergies or Autism?

Robyn O'Brien, 10.20.2009

Author of The Unhealthy Truth

There are 26,000 food poisoning cases per 100,000 Americans, every year (an eye-popping 26% of the population). Compare that to only 3,400 cases in the UK, or 1,200 in France.

NIH Agency Head Backs Vaccine-Autism Research on Friday; Resigns from Federal Autism Panel on Saturday

David Kirby, 10.18.2009

Author/Journalist

On Sunday, Dr. Landis abruptly resigned from the powerful Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), which helps direct hundreds of millions in federal tax dollars to autism research, treatment, care and services.

Is Autism Associated with A Viral Infection?

David Kirby, 10.12.2009

Author/Journalist

New findings have potential significance for a number of disorders including, it turns out, autism.

What do you do?

Sherry Moss, 10.10.2009

Wake Forest Professor and Founder of www.HomeBy3.com.

This week, I'd like to feature a guest blogger, my friend, J. Lorraine Martin. Lorraine is a frequent blogger for us at www.HomeBy3.com and one of my...