1.0 link 155293 <![CDATA[Top Federal Autism Panel Votes For Millions in Vaccine Research]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/top-federal-autism-panel_b_155293.html The Inter-Agency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) has voted to recommend earmarking millions of dollars in research funds from the Combating Autism Act of 2006 to study the possible role of vaccines in the causation of autism.

The panel also proposed spending an additional $75 million to study a wide variety of other environmental factors in autism, possibly including parental age, infections, heavy metals, neurotoxins, occupational exposures and "other biological agents."

The decision, made last month, received little or no attention in...

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