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I will confess, I didn’t do the research ahead of time.  My doctors told me to vaccinate my children and so I did.  So, I never experienced the fear many parents associate with the MMR vaccine.  Could it potentially cause Autism in my child?

Many parents believe it could.  And yet many in the medial community say otherwise.  This latest study from Missouri Medicine, the medical jourmal of the Missouri State Medical Associal falls into that category.  They are urging parents to vaccinate their children  saying the risk from vaccines is very small, but the risk from your child getting sick from something that could be prevented by one of these vaccines is high.

Though the doctors encourage pediatricians to listen to parent’s concerns…. they are also encouraging parents to vaccinate their children, saying the evidence is clear the vaccinations are safe.

Even the local chapter of Autism Speaks released a statement suggesting parents go for the vaccines.  (hear the statement in the video)

Have you had your children vaccinated?  If not, do studies like these convince you otherwise?

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Declares April 2 Autism Awareness Day

President Obama has issued a proclamation declaring April 2nd World Autism Awareness Day.

April is Autism Awareness Month and has Rebecca Odes reported yesterday, a new study has been published that suggests a possible vaccine link. A government advisor on vaccine safety, acknowledges that there is an accepted association between vaccines and brain damage but says that the scientific data finds no link between vaccines and autism. He calls the new study irrelevant.

Regardless of the ongoing battle over just exactly what causes autism, President Obama’s proclamation declares his support to the millions of people impacted by autism: Continue reading »

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Just in time for Autism Awareness Month, a very large can of worms… A scientific review of peer-reviewed studies reignites the debate the medical community has worked so hard to put to rest: Could vaccines possibly be a factor in autism?

The study, published by author Helen Ratajczak in the Journal of Immunotoxicology, looks at all published medical research since autism was first articulated in 1943 to the present. It’s the first published review that takes all studies into account, not focusing on one vaccine or ingredient of concern, but the entire history of what the medical community has reported about autism.

Here’s what Ratajczak had to say:   “Documented causes of autism include genetic mutations and/or deletions, viral infections, and encephalitis [brain damage] following vaccination. Therefore, autism is the result of genetic defects and/or inflammation of the brain.” The author goes on to explore possible reasons vaccines might cause inflammation, including the increase in the number of vaccines given at one time, and a surprising new potential culprit: Human DNA. When vaccine manufacturers took the controversial mercury-based preservative thimerosol out of vaccines, they replaced it, in some cases, with human tissue.

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In yet another blow to the vaccines-cause-autism theory, the vaccine court ruled today in three cases that there was not sufficient evidence to show that vaccines caused autism in three cases.

Parents of the three boys brought the cases alleging that thimerosal, a mercury derivative once commonly used as a vaccine preservative, caused their autism. The Special Masters of the Court of Federal Claims, who heard the cases, concluded that they failed to meet the burden of proof. Continue reading »

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With all the concern about swine flu, not to mention the regular flu (hey, remember that?), conversation about the potential dangers of vaccinating our children is bubbling up again.

Jeanne posted an item earlier this week, pegged to a story on Slate, about how non-vaccinated children can have a potentially negative impact on children whose immune systems are compromised by leukemia or other conditions. Shelley Abreu also wrote this piece right here on Babble about why parents should not be afraid to get their children an H1N1 flu vaccine.

But one of the most candid,  no b.s. media reports on the anti-vaccination movement has to be the cover story of November’s Wired magazine. Let’s put it this way: when Jenny McCarthy reads it, she will not be pleased.

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