In a randomized placebo-controlled trial of 141 children and adults with autism, three months of vitamin/mineral supplements improved metabolic markers in a subset of 53 children, with sulfate up 17%, ATP up 25% and nitrotyrosine down 29%, mostly to near-normal levels.
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Genes Are NOT the Main Cause of Autism
A study of nearly 200 twin pairs found that more fraternal than identical twins shared autism, a result the researchers did not expect and that points to a larger environmental contribution than the 90% genetic share many scientists had assumed.
Disease
How to Help Eliminate the Hidden Enemy that Triggers Autism
Mercola highlights Helen Ratajczak's review in the Journal of Immunotoxicology, which surveys published theories connecting vaccines and autism since 1943, including cases following post-vaccination encephalitis and her suggestion that human DNA in vaccines could play a part.
Other Diseases
How a Physician Cured Her Son's Autism...
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, a neurologist whose own son was diagnosed autistic at three, describes Gut and Psychology Syndrome and her GAPS nutritional program. She says autism was about 1 in 10,000 when she graduated in 1984 and is now diagnosed in 1 child in 66 in parts of Britain.
Vitamins
Free Autism Clinic - email from Vitamin D Council
An email from the Vitamin D Council announcing a free clinic for children with autism, with free assessments, blood tests and vitamin D, funded by memberships and donations. It appeals for money to cover staff, a website contract and a planned UCSF study on autism and vitamin D.
Nutrition
Autism is a vitamin d deficiency disorder?
Egyptian researchers compared 70 children diagnosed with autism to 42 healthy children and found significantly lower serum levels of both measured forms of vitamin D, plus lower calcium, in the autistic group. They saw no link between autism risk and birth month or season.
Disease
Autism risk increases with back to back pregnancies
A Pediatrics study of first and second-born sibling pairs from California birth records for 1992 to 2002 found shorter intervals between pregnancies, especially under a year, associated with higher autism risk in the second child.
Disease
Neonatal Jaundice Linked to Autism, Is Vitamin D the Missing Link?
A Danish study of 733,826 children published in Pediatrics found newborns with jaundice were 87 percent more likely to be diagnosed with a psychological disorder and, among those born at term, 56 percent more likely to have autism. Babies born October through March were 97 percent more likely.
Vitamins
The Vitamin D Newsletter: Yet another autism case report
A Vitamin D Newsletter exchange in which a mother of a three-year-old with autism spectrum disorder, verbal apraxia and hypotonia asks Dr. John Cannell to recommend a New York doctor who treats children with vitamin D, and he replies with a journal citation and follow-up questions.
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Appeals court: vaccine does not cause autism
A federal appeals court upheld the vaccine court's rejection of the Cedillo family's claim that vaccination caused their daughter's autism, calling the special master's decision reasonable and supported by the evidence. It is a setback for more than 5,500 families seeking compensation.
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Vocal Profiling Leads to Early Autism Diagnosis
A wearable recorder captured 3.1 million utterances from 232 children at home, and automated analysis of 12 acoustic parameters flagged autism spectrum disorders with 86% accuracy. Researchers say it could push diagnosis below the current average age of 5.7 years.
Nutrition
Children with Autism Unimpaired by Non-Varied Diet
University of Bristol researchers followed 79 children with autism spectrum symptoms for seven years alongside 14,000 other children and found that despite very narrow diets they grew normally, with slightly low vitamin C and D but less soda and fewer sweets than their peers.
Drug
Tylenol linked to autism
Observational work is cited linking Tylenol to autism: a study of 83 children with autism and 80 without found those given acetaminophen after MMR vaccination were about six times as likely to have autism, with no such link for ibuprofen. A 2003 paper proposes an immune mechanism.
Vitamins
The Vitamin D Newletter: Update on Autism and Vitamin D
The Vitamin D Council newsletter summarises three Swedish papers it says support a vitamin D theory of autism, among them a Karolinska study in which the 10 adult psychiatric outpatients with autism had the lowest 25(OH)D levels of any group, averaging about 12 ng/ml.
Disease
How Many Children Have Autism?
The CDC's ADDM Network put autism spectrum disorder prevalence at about 1 in 110 eight-year-olds in 2006, ranging from 1 in 80 to 1 in 240 across communities. All ten sites tracked since 2002 recorded increases, averaging 57 percent; boys were affected 4 to 5 times as often as girls.
Drug
Japanese Data Show Vaccines Cause Autism
Mercola reprints an argument that Japanese autism rates rose and fell with the number of children vaccinated each year, which the author calls conclusive evidence of a causal link. The piece claims a 2005 Honda and Rutter paper was flawed and, once corrected, supports that conclusion.
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Andrew Wakefield, Scientific Censorship, and Fourteen Monkeys
Mercola reprints a statement by Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey claiming Andrew Wakefield's Lancet retraction is part of a vaccine-industry smear campaign meant to suppress new primate studies they say found vaccinated monkeys lost reflexes critical for survival.
Lifestyle
Older moms more likely to have child with autism
Janie Shelton and colleagues at UC Davis examined 4.9 million California births and 12,159 autism cases and found a 40-year-old mother faced a 50% greater risk of an autistic child than mothers aged 25 to 29, with risk rising 18% for each five years of maternal age.
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