President Obama Speaks at the Edmund Pettus Bridge
Streamed live on Mar 7, 2015

Live from Selma, Alabama. President Obama will speak at the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches.

The full video will be posted to www.whitehouse.gov/videos momentarily.

http://www.ageofautism.com/2015/04/tonight-mark-blaxill-and-dan-olmsted-present-vaccines-20-at-taca-pennsylvania-meeting.html

Posted by Age of Autism at April 03, 2015

Mark Blaxill is the father of a daughter diagnosed with autism, Executive Leadership Team Chairman and co-founder of Health Choice, Chairman and co-founder of the Canary Party, Editor-at-Large for Age of Autism and a frequent speaker at autism conferences. He writes often on autism, science and public policy issues for Age of Autism and has published a number of articles, letters and commentaries on autism in journals such as Public Health Reports, the International Journal of Toxicology, the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Neurotoxicology and Medical Hypotheses. He has also been invited to peer review articles in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the American Journal of Epidemiology, Pediatrics and the International Journal of Toxicology. As part of his advocacy work, he has testified before the Immunization Safety Review of the Institute of Medicine (2001), served on a Blue Ribbon Panel on Vaccine Safety (2004), initiated a symposium sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences entitled “Environmental Factors in Neurodevelopmental Disorders” (2005) and a workshop sponsored by the Institute of Medicine entitled “Autism and the Environment: Challenges and Opportunities for Research” (2007). He was a panelist at a “Meeting on Evaluating Reasons for ASD Trends” co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Autism Speaks (2011) and at a hearing “1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism” called by the House of Representatives’ Oversight and Government Reform Committee (2012).

He received a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. In his professional career, he spent 25 years at The Boston Consulting Group, where he was a Senior Vice President. Recently, he co-founded 3LP Advisors, an advisory firm focused on intellectual property transactions, where he is a Managing Partner. He co-authored a book on autism with Dan Olmsted, called The Age of Autism: Mercury, Medicine and a Man-made Epidemic, (Thomas Dunne, September 2010). His new book with Dan, Vaccines 2.0: The Careful Parent’s Guide to Making Safe Vaccination Choices for Your Family (Skyhorse Publishing, February 2015), was released in Febuary.

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IACC Meeting (9/23/14): Video excerpt of public comment by parent, Megan Davenhall, with transcript
September 30, 2014

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82836909/

Rampant medication use found among L.A. County foster, delinquent kids

BY GARRETT THEROLF
February 16, 2015, 6:33 p.m.

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82906810/

State Senate questions why so many foster kids are being drugged

BY GARRETT THEROLF
February 24, 2015, 4:38 p.m.

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82909629/

Legislators delve into why many foster children are on psych drugs

BY GARRETT THEROLF
February 24, 2015, 10:11 p.m.

http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2015/02/19/why-are-so-many-toddlers-taking-psychiatric-drugs/

Feb 19, 2015

HEALTH
Why Are So Many Toddlers Taking Psychiatric Drugs?


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MURALI DORAISWAMY: Prozac for babies?

Psychiatric drugs are now being given to infants and toddlers in unprecedented numbers.

An analysis of 2013 IMS Data, found that over 274,000 infants (0-1 year olds) and some 370,000 toddlers (1-3 years age) in the U.S. were on antianxiety (e.g. Xanax) and antidepressant (e.g. Prozac) drugs. This report also found over 1,400 infants were on ADHD drugs.

A 2014 Georgia Medicaid analyses led by Susanna Visser at the CDC (see a video of her fascinating talk) when extrapolated nationwide by the New York Times found that over 10,000 toddlers were put on ADHD treatments. (Dr. Visser is currently working on national estimates but believes that the estimate from the Georgia data is conservative.)

Prescriptions of powerful antipsychotics such as Risperdal for infants and very young children have also sharply risen. Office visits for childhood bipolar disorder have risen 40-fold over the past decade in the U.S.

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Dr. P. Murali Doraiswamy is professor of psychiatry and medicine at Duke University Medical Center, where he also serves as a member of the Duke Institute of Brain Sciences and as a senior fellow at the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development.

Robyn O'Brien @foodawakenings · Feb 23
WSJ: A new analysis found over 274,000 U.S. infants & 370,000 toddlers were on antianxiety & antidepressant drugs http://on.wsj.com/17sJi3Q

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/health-family/article11620775.html

Former Mooresville child compensated by federal ‘vaccine court’
BY KAREN GARLOCHKGARLOCH@CHARLOTTEOBSERVER.COM
02/28/2015 5:32 PM 02/28/2015 11:48 PM

http://www.kintera.org/atf/cf/%7BBEBB52F7-5AE4-49F7-A192-BF4B7DD999C6%7D/AUTISM%20AWARENESS%20DAY%20FACT%20SHEETS.PDF

Did You Know?

 1 in 88 children are affected by autism
 1 in 54 boys is on the autism spectrum
 130 children are diagnosed per day
 A new case is diagnosed every 11 minutes
 More children are affected by autism than
diabetes, AIDS, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic
fibrosis, muscular dystrophy or Down syndrome –
combined
 Autism is the fastest-growing serious
developmental disability in the United States
 Autism costs the nation $126 billion per year
 Autism receives less than 5% of the research
funding of many less prevalent childhood diseases
 Boys are four times more likely than girls to have
autism

http://www.ageofautism.com/2015/02/measles-hysteria-the-truth-about-a-non-epidemic-in-eight-simple-slides.html

COMMENTS:

It is AMAZING that the CDC can track EVERY damn CASE OF MEASLES in the United States...

OMG 4 more http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/02/24/4-more-measles-cases-reported-in-california/

I would assume the CDC could also track the 130 NEW CASES of Autism each and every day... and report that to the public.
or perhaps a site needs to be set up for that information.

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http://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/autism-policy-reform-coalition-join-us/

Autism Policy Reform Coalition: Be a Part of the Solution
Posted on May 15, 2014

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It is not well known, but President Barack Obama put together a position paper on autism spectrum disorders back when he was running for president in 2008. That paper promised that

“Obama will appoint a Federal ASD Coordinator to oversee federal ASD research and federal efforts to improve awareness of ASD and improve the training of medical professionals to identify and treat ASD. By establishing one top-level point person to coordinate ASD efforts in the White House, Obama will ensure that ASD receives the recognition and priority it deserves in the federal government. The Federal ASD Coordinator will work also [sic] be tasked with eliminating bureaucratic obstacles that may be delaying implementation of important ASD measures and ensuring that all federal ASD dollars are being spent in a manner that prioritizes results. The Coordinator will work with state task forces on ASD to ensure effective communication and collaboration among federal, state, and local agencies.”

The APRC believes that a similar model to that described above would be the best possible way to make federal autism policy accountable and effective. We request that an Office of National Autism Policy be established, with a Director who is appointed by the President, directly accountable to Congress for results, and advised by a committee comprised substantially of stakeholders who would drive policy. National autism policy needs to be centralized and streamlined in order to effect change. Many people say that Congress won’t consider such a thing because “other diseases” don’t get the same treatment, but “other diseases” don’t affect 2% of the country’s 10-year-olds and are not associated with “bizarre” behavior patterns that make interacting with people in law enforcement, educational settings, group housing, and the work place problematic.

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http://www.ageofautism.com/2015/02/in-perspective-measles-2015.html

by F. Edward Yazbak MD, FAAP
February 26, 2015

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It is a sad reality that no one mentioned that over 1,500 autism cases may have been diagnosed during the 24 first days of the present measles outbreak.

To date, NO ONE including the CDC knows what causes autism (Autism/ASD), the fastest growing disability in the United States, where some 24,000 new cases of the disorder are diagnosed yearly.

For unknown reasons, less than 5% of the United States research funding has been allocated to autism.

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Posted on 05:23 PM, May 08, 2014
Autism risk is half genetic, half environmental: study

WASHINGTON -- A large study in Sweden has shown that genes are just as important as environmental factors in assessing the causes of autism.

Researchers were surprised to discover that the inheritability of the neurodevelopmental disorder was about 50% -- much lower than previous studies that put it at 80-90% -- and that it was equal to environmental causes, according to the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The findings were based on data from more than two million people in Sweden from 1982 to 2006, and is the largest to date on the topic of understanding whether genes or the environment contribute to autism, which affects about one in 100 children globally, and as many as one in 68 in the United States.

“We were surprised by our findings as we did not expect the importance of environmental factors in autism to be so strong,” said study author Avi Reichenberg from the Mount Sinai Seaver Center for Autism Research in New York.

The study did not pinpoint which environmental factors could be at play, but said generally they could include things like the family’s socioeconomic status, birth complications, maternal infections or medications taken before and during pregnancy.

Co-authors on the study came from Kings College London and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

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http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1866100

May 7, 2014, Vol 311, No. 17 >

Original Investigation | May 7, 2014
The Familial Risk of Autism FREE

Sven Sandin, MSc1,2; Paul Lichtenstein, PhD1; Ralf Kuja-Halkola, MSc1; Henrik Larsson, PhD1; Christina M. Hultman, PhD1; Abraham Reichenberg, PhD3,4,5
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JAMA. 2014;311(17):1770-1777. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.4144.

http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/statisticsreport.pdf

National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Statistics Report
For February 2015

10 page report