Posted by Susan Moffitt on Saturday, February 5th, 2011
Parents of children with autism will invariably face difficult decisions regarding their children’s best course of treatment. Among the most agonizing of these, is the decision to use prescription drugs to treat their condition. Against the backdrop of spiraling cases of autism, anti-psychotic medications, once reserved for schizophrenia and other major mental illnesses, are being [...]
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Posted in Autism Advice from Parents, Autism Treament, Doctors, Medical Conditions, Parents
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Posted by Susan Moffitt on Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
On January 21, 2011, CNN.com ran an Op-Ed by Dr. Rahul K. Parikh stating that parents of unvaccinated children should pay substantially higher insurance rates than those who are in compliance. He argued that the discrediting of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, once and for all, settled the issue of vaccines and autism. Furthermore, it was suggested [...]
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Posted in Autism and the Law, Autism and the Media, Autism Controversy, Commentary, Studies, Vaccines
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