TIME's Cover: The Truth About Vaccines.

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Friday, May 23, 2008 Reader Supported Vol. 12 No. 76p

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MEDIATIME’s Cover: “The Truth About Vaccines."

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CAREPa. Gets Permission To Spend Medicaid Money On Adult Autism

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RESEARCHSurging Autism Group Targets Preventative, Practical Autism/ADHD ResearchThimerosal Exposure In Infants And Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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ADVOCACYHeckenlively On The Omnibus Autism Proceeding: 5/20

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PUBLIC HEALTHPhilly First In The Nation To Require Mercury DisclosuresEVENTSBestselling American Author Kirby To Speak At Houses of Parliament, UKTreating Autism in South AfricaCOMMENTARYNine Points Left Out By TIME articleLETTERS

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the Autism Calendartm hereHundreds of Local Autism EventsMEDIATIME’s Cover: “The Truth About Vaccines."tinyurl.com/4oxcgw TIME’s Alice Park reports on the debate about vaccinating children in the U.S., writing, “Spurred by claims that vaccinations can be linked to autism, increasing numbers of parents are raising questions about whether vaccines, far from panaceas, are actually harmful to children.” This trend, Park writes, “is forcing both policymakers and parents to wrestle with a dilemma that goes to the heart of democracy: whether the common welfare should trump the individual’s right to choose … all but two states allow waivers for children whose parents object to vaccines on religious grounds; 20 allow parents to opt out on philosophical grounds. Currently, nearly one-half of 1% of kids enrolled in school are unvaccinated under a medical waiver; 2% to 3% have a nonmedical one, and the numbers appear to be rising." Park reports, “vaccinations protect not only the kids who receive the shots but also those who can’t receive them—such as newborns and cancer patients with suppressed immune systems. These vulnerable folks depend on riding the so-called herd-immunity effect. The higher the immunization rate in any population, the less likely that a pathogen will penetrate the group and find a susceptible person inside. As immunization rates drop, that protection grows thinner." There are many reasons why parents may choose not to immunize their children, Park reports, but “more than any other issue, the question of autism has fueled the battle over vaccines. Since the 1980s, the number of vaccinations children receive has doubled, and in that same time, autism diagnoses have soared threefold … It was perhaps inevitable that parents would make a connection between [chemicals in some vaccines] and autism, since symptoms typically appear around age 2, by which time babies have already received a fair number of vaccines. That link could be merely temporal, of course; babies also get their first teeth after they get their first vaccines, but that doesn’t mean one causes the other.” The cdc and the National Institutes of Health have concluded that there is no scientific evidence to support a link between autism and vaccines, Park reports. Aside from autism concerns, some parents are worried that vaccines could harm their children’s immune systems, but Park reports there is little evidence to support that claim: “Experts stress that it’s not the number of inoculations that matters but the number of immune-stimulating antigens—or proteins—in them. Thanks to a better understanding of which viral or bacterial proteins are best at activating the immune system, that number has plummeted."+ Full story: tinyurl.com/4oxcgw

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