Autism

Memo to those who wanted the autism-vaccine contretemps to just go away: You lost.

Exactly five years ago, I began research for my book Evidence of Harm, which looked into the possible link between mercury, vaccines and the tsunami of autism that now overwhelms our education system.

Along the way,...

Police Officer Michael Capobianco isn't afraid of much. A member of the elite Bureau of Special Operations he is a skilled marksman who practices jumping off building roofs, storming tenements and tackling drug crazed lunatics.

The one thing that terrifies Officer Capobianco is the specter of a wandering autistic child.

Several important findings affecting our children's health were reported in the past few months. All of them raising questions about the unintended consequences of widely accepted medical treatments.

In September news reports about Prevnar, a vaccine developed to protect against pneumonia in children, along with the overuse of antibiotics,...

My kids get door-to-door pickup service to their public schools. It's one of the "perks" of having autism. Remember the old jokes about riding the "short bus"? Not so funny anymore. On one of the two buses that stop at my house, I see three boys in the windows. Boy...

Two weeks ago, Liam came bounding into the house on a Friday afternoon with something special from his teacher. Apparently, for being such a good boy in school, she had given him the opportunity to bring home the Oriental Trading Halloween 2007 catalog. She takes the motivation for him to...

Wednesday morning - Everyone is still asleep in this tiny room in Imperial Beach where we have evacuated from our home in San Diego, but I want to know what is going on. I turn on the TV without the sound and see the same images of fire and brimstone...

As ABC News has recently observed, the presidential campaign features a pair of older dads, one on each side of the aisle.

On the left, it's Sen. Christopher Dodd, 63, who has two daughters, age 6 and 2, with his second wife Jackie Clegg Dodd. And on the right, Sen....

For most children, developmental milestones are met right on time. Parents dutifully record them in baby books and scrapbooks. The first smile. The first babble. The first jar of solid food. The first crawl or step. The first word. The first "Why?"

At first, all that inquisitiveness is cute....

The epidemic of autism that is ripping through our country now has a terrific new spokesman from its own ranks. His name is John Elder Robison.

John made his national debut last week at the inaugural reading of his astounding book, Look Me In the Eye, (Crown Books) a...

A New England Journal of Medicine study has added another brick to the wall of evidence closing out a link between vaccines and autism and other brain disorders. Unfortunately, the public relations effect of the study will be muted because the anti-mercury activists who helped plan it withdrew their support...

Oprah Winfrey has made history again. This time it was a show on autism. Not just another show but one that every parent who has a child with autism can use as a guide.

Hopefully some philanthropist -- perhaps Oprah, herself -- will have millions of copies made and hand...

Several months ago I wrote a piece for Huffington Post called "The Crappy Life of the Autism Mom" that described a crapisode, which is my word for what happens when two of my three girls with autism work in tandem to create a holy mess in the bathroom. A...

It's dangerous, I know, as P. T. Barnum warned us, to place your hopes on the good taste of the American people. But that's exactly what I did this summer. I put the proposal for my latest book up on Media...