Archive for January, 2009

Insidermedicine in 60 – February 1, 2008

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

From Rochester – A new study has shown that thimerosal, the mercury-containing preservative found in childhood vaccines, is excreted rapidly from the body and therefore cannot build to toxic levels. Researchers found that the half-life of ethyl mercury in the blood was 3.7 days, compared to 44 days for the kind of mercury found in fish. This is yet more evidence that thimerosal is not a cause of autism, and childhood vaccinations should be strongly encouraged.

From France – Iatrogenic events, or incidents of unintended harm caused by health care, to newborn babies are frequent and often preventable. A prospective study in a neonatal centre in southern France showed that a third of all IEs and more than a quarter of severe IEs were preventable, compared to adults and children where 40 to 60% of adverse events were preventable. This study highlights the need for implementing effective error-prevention strategies in pediatric medicine.

And finally, from South Carolina – You may want to think twice before double dipping. Just in time for the Super Bowl, a new study from Clemson University found that for 3 double dips of a cracker into dip, about 10,000 bacteria are transferred from a person’s mouth into the remaining dip. According to the researchers, double dipping is tantamount to kissing a person, due to the transfer of saliva.

For Insidermedicine in 60, I’m Dr. Susan Sharma.

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Autism: Effective intervention

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

This panel presentation discusses a national effort to provide guidelines for early intervention treatment for autism spectrum disorders Series: M.I.N.D. Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders [11/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 14646]

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Why is Science Wrong so often?

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Bearing in mind that, in historical terms, it is only a short time ago that the most intelligent scientific minds firmly believed that the Universe revolved around the Earth. Also that the deciphering of the Human Genome was the final definitive step in human science – but has now been show to be just another skin of the onion.
It is not long ago that Science was investigating entropy and predicting the Heat Death of the Universe, That soon glaciers could be expected to advance over Regents Park London.
Recently Medical Science predicted that — using antibiotics — Gonorrhoea, Tuberculosis and many other plagues would be erased forever. Dr Ken Harvey, director of. Microbiology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia, where a particularly virulent strain of MRSA bacteria swept through the wards, said recently: 'We may, look back at the antibiotic era as just a passing. phase in the history of medicine, an era in which a great, natural resource was squandered and where the bugs proved smarter than the scientists. He is especially critical of 'doctors who constantly use broad-spectrum antibiotics an indiscriminate drug which kills a wide range of bugs in circumstances where they are unnecessary. " Broad spectrum, antibiotics are the refuge of the diagnostically 'destitute". he said.
Vaccination was to protect the young — but has now been shown to be responsible for many types of Autism — due to the Mercury included in many vaccines. A parent who said he believes his two autistic children were harmed by vaccines applauded Congress for requesting a new investigation. The parent, Jared Hansen of Framingham, said he thinks the CDC is reluctant to expose dangers of thimerosal because the agency is responsible for ensuring public acceptance of its vaccination program.

"They've proven far more willing to overstate the risks of disease and understate the danger of vaccination," Hansen said. "No one in their right mind can say that giving mercury intravenously is a smart thing to do."

Autism rates soared during the 1990s when thimerosal was most heavily used in childhood vaccines. Levels of mercury injected into infants were 120 times greater than federal safety limits for oral ingestion of mercury, congressmen wrote to the NIEHS.

Government officials asked manufacturers in 1999 to remove the mercury-based preservative from vaccines, but it is still used in flu and tetanus shots.

It has long been known that efforts to infect rats with Syphilis is useless. Now we have a Supermouse that simply kills off any attempts to inject it with Cancer. Its immune system is highly effective.
In view of the item on the Heat Death of the Universe , why are we now involved in a panic about Global Warming?. The “hole” in the atmosphere, supposedly getting bigger due to Refrigerator Gas , was only recently discovered . We have NO records of its expansion and contraction over some centuries , so how can we predict anything!.
Considering these few items ,culled at random , its is obvious that at any given moment Science is just a “ragbag” of postulates firmly based in a sea of sand.
Why then are scientists so well paid when Astrology is probably more firmly based than Astronomy — and what exactly – is a Black Hole , the “Superstrings” that wander through our universe as if it were a Ghost , a Phantasm.

1) Because modern science is political, it is funded by people and organizations with an agenda.

2) Because it has become socially necessary for scientists to publish "new findings" in order to appear successful. So things are rushed.

3) Because science has largely become a "religion" based on "faith." If anyone challenges the commonly accepted theories (global warming, evolution, linear nature of time) they are black-balled and their research and evidence is ignored.

In short, science has lost its objectivity.

How do professionals determine whether a child’s autism is mild, moderate or severe?

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

I can’t find a description of which particular behaviors separate the different classifications of autism. Is there an actual list the professionals follow to make this decision or is it subjective?

There is nothing in the diagnostic manual used by healthcare professionals designating the severity of the autism, so that would be something being used by a particular professional or clinic as a descriptor. I would then think that it is a non-standardized description indicating something about the magnitude of the impairment.

The real reason Hillary Clinton Attacked Don Imus

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

If you’re old enough to remember HillaryCare you’re old enough to understand that the only thing universal about her healthcare plan was it’s universal rejection.

This isn’t entirely true, of course.

Hillary Clinton made sure that federal education dollars were linked to successfully met vaccination quotas. She falsely claimed that too many children were falling through the cracks. Hillary bullied parents into vaccinating their children by calling them bad parents for not vaccinating. Many were thrown in jail and their children taken from them.

A Hillary-sanctioned “just shut up and vaccinate, or you will go to jail” policy was soon in place, and with that, the vaccine marketplace quickly increased the number of Thimerosal-containing vaccines.

Vaccination rates rose, but so did rates of an extremely rare neurological disorder called Autism.

Knowing something was causing the rates of Autism to sky-rocket, the government discovered that none had calculated the amount of ethylmercury that was being injected into American infants. When the calculation was finally made a catastrophic mistake unraveled.

In 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Public Health Service “quietly” requested that manufacturers begin to phase out Thimerosal-containing vaccines as a precaution. A precaution to what is a question that the government will not answer.

For all practical purposes Hillary Clinton is the mother of the Autism epidemic.

She understands this only in relationship to the damage is will have on her career.

In this video Don Imus clearly points to her for her lack of responsibility. For this reason, she and her liberal supporters led the attack on Don Imus. They used the first possible politically correct excuse they could.

Let’s not forget that when it was enhancing to her career, Hillary screamed her head off to close the bombing range in Puerto Rico. Al Sharpton, the same guy who spent time in a federal prison for attempting to scale a fence which led to the range led the ouster on Imus, a guy who is considered a hero amongst families of the epidemic. Among the reasons for their very loud bombing range protest? Excessive amounts of mercury were found in the fingernails and hair of Vieques’ nearby residents.

Don Imus is totally correct to hold Hillary Clinton accountable for her major role in the systematic mercury poisoning of tens of thousands of American infants. Her insane zeal for a political win, and thus please the drug lobby and social Democrats, including former first lady Rosalyn Carter, directly led to what one unbiased politician has described as vaccine abuse. The will of Hillary has left hundreds of thousands of American families devastated.

In 2002, by best estimate the once 1 in 10,000-rare neurological disorder was striking as many as 1 in every 43 American households.

Despite the false claims, Thimerosal is still found in heavy amounts in many infant and toddler vaccines. It is still found in trace levels in many others due to it’s continued use up-stream in the vaccine making process.

Hillary Clinton using the still-powerful liberal media continues to manufacture a measurable resistance. The swift departure of Don Imus is a fine example of indirection and the politics of personal destruction by proxy. Just before Imus was whacked, Hillary, working with the “preservative republicans in Congress, saw to it that a Senate bill to combat Autism was stripped of all Thimerosal and vaccine research wording. When Don and his wife Deirdre, who has used their powerful platform to push for a research bill, were told the wording was stripped they withdrew support for the bill.

Because of a strong sense to exonerate mercury, our affected children have been treated like crap by the medical scientific community. Despite the fact that mercury is known as a heavy metal neurotoxin in just about every chemistry textbook, this is a scientific community which conducts vaccine safety studies with Thimerosal-containing placeboes to achieve balance in negative neurological outcomes. Most consider these affected children to be the necessary sacrifices that keep the rest of America healthy.

Thankfully, more and more Americans are aware of what’s been going on due largely to a handful of so of fearless scientific researchers, who have basically thrown away their careers in order to tell the truth.

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Epigenetic Mechanisms in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Presentation by Dr. Janine M. LaSalle, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of California, Davis

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What if a lense is contaminated with Staphylococcus or Acanthamoeba…?

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Which would you us and why … Chlorhexidine .005%; Thimerosal, .002%; Hydrogen Peroxide, 3% or Polyquaternium-1 .001%?

to get rid of staph i would use bleach first. rinse with water. then spray with 70% ethanol. the ethanol will evaporate without you having to touch it and get the lens clean.

let all the cleaning fluids sit there for at least a couple of minutes.

for acanthamoeba, well since this can kill in 7 days and since it encysts I would be really careful about this.

in fact, I would not play with the chance of getting infected with acanthamoeba since it is difficult to diagnose, attacks CNS, and it is difficult to kill.

if your lens has a chance of being contaminated with canthamoeba, dispose in bio hazard bag and make sure that whoever is going to deal with the bag knows that you have a very dangerous organism in the bag.

you can get better info on proper ways to dispose and otherwise deal with acanthamoeba from UCLA parasitology lab, CDC…

Can a child have autism and still be social?

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

I have been reading up on autism and Asperger's Syndrome a lot lately because we have some concerns about our four year old son. He fits the characteristics of Asperger's Syndrome except for one thing, children with Asperger's are typically known to be very anti-social. Our son is the most social child we have ever seen. In fact we get comments all the time on how out-going and social he is.

So my question is, can a child have an autism spectrum disorder and still be social?

This question reminds me of the fact that apparently any child with autism is unable to make and maintain eye contact, something which is totally untrue. As we find out and begin to understand more about autistic spectrum disorders a lot of these long held beliefs that were set in stone are being proved wrong. A lot of children with an ASD appear to be extremely sociable but once you look a little deeper you will notice they have subtle differences in their ways of socialising. Many will watch people and then copy how they behaved, others will talk straight at you but not expect you to reply. Others become a different character who they feel confident to be and who doesn't have the same hang ups that they do. No two people with an ASD are ever the same and the same applies when they are interacting with others. As yet we don't know much about autism so each case needs to be looked at individually. My own daughter is profoundly autistic but she can be the most out going and sociable person there is, but it is all a facade for her to hide behind. Like you I get comments all the time from people who say she can't possibly be autistic because she is outgoing and can maintain eye contact. If you are worried about your son get him to have an assessment with a good clinical psychologist. Good luck.

Part 4: The Vaccine-Autism Connection

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

The Vaccine-Autism Connection

( Part 4 of 4 )

Dr. Rashid Buttar, DO, FAAPM, FACAM, FAAIM

Dr. Rashid Buttar discusses the vaccine-autism link in terms of mercury toxicity and the biological aspects of mercury poisoning and autism.

Dr. Buttar practices in Charlotte, NC where he is the medical director of Advanced Concepts in Medicine, a clinic specializing in treating cancer, heart disease and other chronic conditions in patients refractory to conventional treatments, with a special emphasis on the interrelationship between metal toxicity and insidious disease processes.

Source:

http://www.autismmedia.org/

http://www.whale.to/vaccines.html

http://www.drbuttar.com/

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Autistic Basketball Manager’s 20 Point Game

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Autistic basketball manager scores 6 three pointers and 1 two point shot in the last 4 minutes of the game.

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