by Dr. Mercola
The antidepressant class of drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are among the most frequently prescribed drugs for autism.Although none are specifically approved for the treatment of autism, it’s estimated that up to one-third of autistic children receive the drugs, often to treat the repetitive behaviors like tapping or head […]
Health Impact News Comments: Our Facebook Page on Coconut Health generates a lot of coconut oil testimonies. One recent testimony came from Debra regarding her developmentally delayed grandson, who did not talk for the first three and a half years of his life. She has allowed us to publish her testimony.
by Debra
CoconutHealth Facebook Page
I really am a firm […]
By Catherine J. Frompovich
VacTruth.com
Someone did perform safety studies the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should have mandated be performed and vetted BEFORE numerous vaccines were released into the public sector for mass vaccinations.
Lead investigator Laura Hewitson, PhD, probably dropped a bombshell when she […]
Contact Congress to Attend Autism Presentation
Congress is Listening!
Last weekend we sent a request for you to comment on the Facebook pages of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform requesting hearings into the federal response (or lack of) to the autism epidemic, the politically motivated effort to avoid researching possible environmental causes of […]
Autismactionnetwork.org
Rep. Dan Burton Calls for Autism Hearings Take Action!
Please Take Action to Support his Appeal
Representative Dan Burton recently published the letter below in The Hill calling for Congressional hearings into the causes of autism (including mercury and vaccines), the inadequacy of the Federal government’s response to the autism epidemic, and the failure of the […]
by Vera Sharav
Alliance for Human Research Protection
The Centers for Disease Control issued an alarming report: 1 in 88 US children are afflicted with autism–an increase of 25% between 2006-2008.
On March 29, 2012, the US Centers for Disease Control reported startling evidence: the number of children diagnosed with autism in the United States increased 25% between […]
Watch video of World Autism Day Press Conference
Speakers include:
Mary Holland, EBCALA Managing Director
Mark Blaxill, SafeMinds Board Member
Katie Wright, National Autism Association Board Member
Barry Segal, Focus Autism Founder
Louise Habakus, Center for Personal Rights Founder
Rebecca Estepp, EBCALA Communications Director
Khalid Rehman, M.D.
Statements were followed by answers to questions posed by reporters.
Video streaming by […]
Health Impact News Editor Comments: Becky Estepp, the parent of a child with autism and the communications director for Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law & Advocacy, was on Fox News talking about the new CDC numbers on Autism released last week. Generally when the mainstream media covers this story, they edit out anything that has […]
By Christina Adams
Autism File
Excerpts:
Nomads in Algeria have long said, “Water is the soul, milk is the life.” They may be proved right by emerging reports that camel milk, the drink of nomadic peoples from Mongolia to India, may have a healing effect on various diseases.
Now parents from around the world, as I did in 2007, are also reporting reduced […]
By Adrian MacNair – Abbotsford News
Derek Hoare had taken his eyes off his nine-year-old autistic daughter, Ayn Van Dyk, for just a moment.
Then she was gone.
Ayn had been playing in the backyard of his Mt. Lehman Road home, which was surrounded by a six-foot fence.
But somehow she had disappeared. Derek sprinted up the street […]
