Health Buzz: Autism Study Halted and Other Health News

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My son diagnosed with AUTISM is recovering
from AUTISM because of CHELATION THERAPY...
and your opinions against it are based on
what evidence?? The government refusing to
do even a study to see if it works proves they
are affraid of what they might find. Think about
it...if it IS TRUE then they have been knowingly
poisoning our kids...think of the liability of
1 out 150 American kids...the numbers are
staggering. I do NOT want any parent to have to
go thru what we have or for one more child to
be harmed from the vaccines. It is time for
the vaccine schedule to be reformed. The fact
that they refuse to do qualified studies to
disprove us parents only proves our point even
further.

HayandPey of OH 2:33PM September 19, 2008

Chelation therapy is reported to help in many cases with autism, but it is dismissed as anecdotal. Is this because it's too obvious, or because it's too old? Or is it because it's not a new drug that promises billions of dollars to the pharmaceutical companies? Dave of NJ, I have a feeling you work for one of them, as many are based in NJ. It's very easy to track the conspiracy, just follow the money -- look at all the big bucks going to medical schools and all the perks given to doctors by pharmaceutical representatives. There is also the "ideological hegemony" of the established methods, most of which don't involve curing anything, just treating symptoms (cancer included).
As far as other countries doing chelation, how do you know that they are not, and also, how do you know that they are not being influenced by the same forces as the medical establishment here?

Jen of WA 12:00AM September 19, 2008

I went to post a comment about what a crock this article was and you already beat me to it. I have been researching Vaccines, mercury and autism for a little while now( i can only do so much at a time because it sickens me) Now i am 3 months pregnant and terrified of what they will try and put in my baby when i'm not looking(it happens if you request to not vaccinate, which most parents don't even know their new born gets a shot at birth)Please Inform Yourself People, Do your own research, don't trust me or the doctors(they only know what the are taught, and the pharmacuetical industry funds med school...) nvic.org -national vaccine information center infowars.com -a outlet for journalism outside of corporate media
PLEASE DO RESEARCH

infowarrrior of FL 9:18PM September 18, 2008

For all those who think the people asking for some real science regarding vaccination are conspiracy believers or are just plain uneducated: I would like to ask you one question..... What is in a vaccine? Do you know? Have you ever even asked that question? Or do you just read popular press about mercury? I can pretty much guarantee 99% of you that are critical of people asking for safety in vaccination
(and medicine) are less educated and definitely less informed than those of us who have actually earned degrees in Science. The funniest thing is that if you stopped and read the facts without getting all emotional, then you would be sick to your stomach that you allowed someone to inject anti-freeze, monkey kidney cells (DNA), aluminum, etc. into you or your children. Basic biology and basic genetics will tell you not to do it. However, when we worship at the alter of Louis Pasteur and Salk and the smallpox miracle stories of grade school; all the science goes away and you can't see the forest for the trees. It makes me sad that we have to try to chelate kids with man made amino acids but we really need to paddle up river and stop the cause of these childhood epidemics by decreasing their toxic exposure. Otherwise you are sending the ambulance to the bottom of the cliff but you are not building a fence to keep them from falling off.

Bryan of IN 5:10PM September 18, 2008

What a crock. Doctors would run to publish any real cure for autism or any other disease. To propose a conspiracy among all doctors is just plain stupid paranoia. Fortunately most doctors are trained to review facts in a disciplined scientific manner, unlike the cure it all, paid advertisement, snake oil commercial profitiers.

Dave of NJ 5:01PM September 18, 2008

I experienced chelation therapy of a gentler nature than big injected doses that hit the body hard. The method I used was spread out over three months and the medication and supplements involved were ingested orally. Prior to the treatment I was losing mental function rapidly and way too early for my age of 40 years. Some symptoms included stuttering, and almost complete short-term memory loss, which lead to, among other things, inability to find simple words and to complete simple sentences.
Within three months (taking lighter than prescribed doses) I was restored to the level of mental clarity that I had experienced years earlier. (I am now 55, BTW.)
Chelation therapy has great potential but it pays to look at the various forms offered. I don't generally care for the expensive, inject-a-blast medical approach.

Stephen Flemming of OR 4:56PM September 18, 2008

There are a million holes I could point out in these conspiracy theories but let me just ask this. If this is a miracle cure and doctors are only claiming to be worried about it because they want to protect their profits.
1) doctors are people just like we are. They get sick as well and if they thought it was some miracle cure don't you think they would use it on themselves?
2) why aren't other less regulated countries using this "miracle cure" rampantly? Does the FDA control the world? Apparently you nutjobs think it does.
How do people get to the point where they feel there's some conspiracy to keep miracle cures from them and cars that run on water, and aliens, and science projects that are going to create black holes, fake moon landings, etc.. lol

Scott of NY 3:50PM September 18, 2008

Yeah, them doctors is all bad, theys been learnin that there siense. H'ain't no such thin as a vacsinatiun, h'its poison! h'its full of them toxins, h'aint sure what they is but they must be real bad cauze my momma takes a enemey ever day an it stinks like toxins! Thank goodness i got me some real good herbs from the old lady livin up on the hill yonder. Got me som of them magnets and copper braselets to. h'aint no doctor gonna push none of them digoxin or aspirin pills on me, no sir, i got me some leaves and bark. Funniest thin is only a doctor is gonna unnerstant the siginficuns of that there last sentens.

Elvira of KY 3:37PM September 18, 2008

I find it incredible that the NIH used EDTA as a chelator. It is known to have caused one death already. I find it even more incredible that this chelator is then being used to hint that all chelation is bad including the other two much safer chelators DMSA and DMPS. It's a classic "Red Herring" technique. Using EDTA that is guaranteed to cause problems in kids and then to bad mouth all chelation is in nobody's interest and shows again how the NIH is avoiding the subject by baiting and switching. Chelation either with DMPS or DMSA is the only thing that works well in heavy metal poisoning and is relatively safe. EDTA has been written up as unsafe by a number of researchers. I presume the NIH doesn't want to find out that mercury is actually causing autism. Sincerely, Birgit Calhoun

Birgit Calhoun of CA 3:36PM September 18, 2008

"...isn't confident in the safety of chelation, which critics have called an unethical experiment on kids..."
Say what??? WHICH "critics"? Please: identify. --Their names, their associations, their employers?
IF you ACTUALLY FULLY do the homework, do your job, you will find: they are connected to medical Establishment and to big pharma. --THEY don't want chelation in the marketplace because: such treatment would WIPE OUT their profits.
Therefore: they have exerted all forms of pressure on FDA to keep chelation unavailable --and "controversial."
Except chelation became "controversial" only when: doctors who were treating coal miners for lung disease suddenly began receiving reports from those miners --of renewed vigor/lung, heart problems erased. On examination: doctors found not only did the treatment remove metals, etc., from lungs, the original approved and intended treatment, it removed YEARS of plaque built up in artery walls --restoring health nearly overnight.
But when those doctors applied to FDA for permission to use it to treat heart disease: others, who wanted to 'protect' their pocketbooks, forced FDA to DENY permission --in 1946. --SIXTY-TWO YEARS later: still do --in the US, ALWAYS slapping
"controversial" next to "chelation."
--And, hell, Why not: a FEW HUNDRED bucks to clear arteries --where's the money in that when $80,000+ to be made on "by-pass" heart surgery, worthless or not, and other profitable procedures?
IF what pediatricians are doing NOW with vaccinations is SO NOT the cause of autism: HOW COME Baby boomers DIDN'T get rampant numbers of autism as young children?
IF your child suddenly acquired autism: TRY chelation treatment. IT can't make child worse. If it removes toxins from the body --BEFORE tissue is damaged: ~TaDa, problem solved.
Or: you could Keep On believing FDA, big pharma and political medical establishment --with financial interest to protect, as YOU search for cure, cope with THEIR after-effects. Your choice.

Poppy of CA 3:06PM September 18, 2008