MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'eli stone'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:52:14 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1480748&cid=t_166635_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F301017971%2F For the past two weeks, one post after another has been about the exclusion of autistic individuals: 13-year-old Adam Race from church—and by a restraining order. 5-year-old Alex Barton from his kindergarten class—and by a “voting out” process that has had more than a few echoes of the “Survivor” reality TV show. But these cases weren’t the stuff of network drama (like this TV show—remember the “mercuritol”?). They were real things that happened to real autistic people and—based on what’s been said ‘round the web and here on this blog—this kind of exclusion is not at all uncommon. And it’s not unusual especially when attempts are made to include autistic individuals—in “mainstream” e... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1480748 Fri, 30 May 2008 05:17:53 +0100 1480748 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1238196&cid=t_166635_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F236824046%2F Parents don’t cause autism and neither do vaccines. Further: More and more evidence is being found that rejects the hypothesis that there is a link between autism and mercury; more and more evidence is also being found that rejects the hypothesis that there is a link between autism and the MMR vaccine. Nonetheless: Proponents of the hypothesis that a vaccine or something in vaccines (such as mercury in the form of the preservative thimerosal) causes autism remain as vocal as ever about their views, which they make known via full-page ads in national newspapers; celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy; and press releases issued post-haste by “mercury causes autism” organization such as Safe Minds. Those who subscribe to such hypotheses of autism causation tend, too, to voice di... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1238196 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:46:29 +0100 1238196 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1237613&cid=t_166635_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F236362329%2F Neon-bright marquees and music (from B.B. King’s theater–Buckwheat Zydeco is playing) and tour buses driving up halfway onto 42nd street and Russian Spanish Korean Twi being spoken and the smell of the gyros and steam from the subway grates: That was what Charlie walked through, holding Jim’s arm and grinning, with my parents and me bringing up the rear on Saturday afternoon in New York City. Too much going on, same as the topics for the past two weeks’ posts. What’s It All About, Eli? (2): Keeping the FaithWhile the court case that the main character of ABC’s legal drama, Eli Stone, successfully argues in the show’s first episode involves vaccines and “mercuritol,” a stand-in for thimerasol that is claimed to have caused a child to b... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1237613 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:03:25 +0100 1237613 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1222370&cid=t_166635_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F233194787%2F It’s the charm that matters most, at least according to New York Magazine in a review of Eli Stone, the new ABC legal drama that got off to a controversial start with its first episode about lawyer Stone winning a $5.2 million verdict for a mother who claimed that her son became autistic due to a mercury-based substance in a flu vaccine. New York Magazine says “tsk tsk” to the New York Times for feeling it “necessary to deplore this plot point in a February 2 editorial about mercury preservatives. (Sloppy science in a TV serial! Imagine that.).” Who cares about the science or the George Michael musical moments in the show when, as New York Magazine notes, the show has a “high and churning tide of charm” with its “buoyant cast of talented acto... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1222370 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:32:48 +0100 1222370 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1216529&cid=t_166635_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F231403500%2F Autism and schizophrenia: This is a topic far beyond what one blog post can even begin to discuss, and this post is simply a note on the topic after reflecting on what Dr. Nancy Minshew said in a February 6th article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and puzzling over the as-usual excessive response by those who believe that a vaccine or mercury or something in a vaccine causes autism. Dr. Minshew, who is the Director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Excellence in Autism Research, was quoted in a January 31st article about the ABC comedic legal drama, Eli Stone, which aired last week. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer Mark Roth noted that Dr. Minshew, concerned about the TV show’s suggesting that there might be a link between autism and vaccines, had decided to “tak... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1216529 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:42:50 +0100 1216529 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1198011&cid=t_166635_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F228404901%2F “…there might be a deeper meaning to the series as a whole. This is something I touched upon on my own post for today (autism and spirituality–maybe they’ll get that angle right). wrote one commenter after watching ABC’s new legal TV drama, Eli Stone: In reading responses and commentary on the show, I’ve been struck at how often people have talked about faith—a New York Times editorial about the show is entitled Eli Stone’s Overleap of Faith—and stating that they appreciate the show because it brings other topics into the discussion about autism. While the court case that Stone successfully argues involves vaccines and “mercuritol,” a stand-in for thimerasol that is claimed to have caused a child to become autistic, it is matters o... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1198011 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:15:47 +0100 1198011 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1197554&cid=t_166635_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F228154918%2F A certain TV show about a certain lawyer and a certain hypothesis about what causes autism dominated autism discussions this week, for better or for worse—-when I talk about autism, I’m thinking of a very real boy, my son Charlie, and not so much about a fictional TV character. My real boy’s week was more of a struggle than has been usual. And then, this evening as we stood in the checkout line at the grocery store, a teenage clerk in the next aisle said “his tooth’s on the floor!” and sure enough, there was Charlie bending over to pick up a large molar (which he tried to put back into his mouth, on the lower right). Things have been a little more peaceful easy feeling ever since—Charlie’s been saying “pull loose tooth” for the pa... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1197554 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:36:58 +0100 1197554 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1195893&cid=t_166635_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F227479860%2F Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick, the author of MMR and Autism: What Parents Need to Know, charts the rise and fall of anti-MMR mania in a book review of Health, Risk and News: The MMR Vaccine and the Media by Tammy Boyce, a research fellow in Risk, Science, and Health Communication at Cardiff University. Dr. Boyce’s book tells the story of media coverage of the scare over the MMR vaccine in Britain after Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the primary author of the first paper suggesting an MMR-autism link (a paper that has since been retracted by journal that published it most of the paper’s authors, but not Wakefield); Dr. Fitzpatrick also offers a concise history of the controversy of the MMR and what happened after Dr. Wakefield “launched” it. Dr. Boyce’s book looks specifica... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1195893 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:42:34 +0100 1195893 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1192862&cid=t_166635_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F226913996%2F There’s a new blog in the blogosphere, Hollywood Spectrum, and its first post offers a summary of the original script of a certain TV show set to air tonight, in which lawyer Eli Stone takes on an insurance company which won’t pay for treatments for “William,” who has autism (and who is played by an autistic child). The treatment in question is not some alterna-biomedical magic supplement, but Risperidone: After a month on this antipsychotic (which has been approved to treat “irritability” in autistic children), William’s mother describes the value of the drug this way: “He actually smiled.” A child taking Risperdal probably also has a few other reactions, including a significant increase in his appetite. I know, as my son has taken R... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1192862 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:37:31 +0100 1192862 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1191418&cid=t_166635_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F226506823%2F According to Access Hollywood, an autistic boy plays the autistic child in ABC’s comedic legal drama “Eli Stone,” scheduled to premier tonight. This is an interesting development, to have an autistic child playing an autistic child: People have often questioned and criticized the accuracy and authenticity of actors and actresses playing autistic characters, as Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man and Sigourney Weaver in Snow Cake. It is, though, all the more unfortunate that a vaccine—via a fictional substance called “mercuritol“—is said to be why William, in the child in “Eli Stone,” has autism. Will a future episode make mention of,or even show the child undergoing chelation—-in which medications are given to a child to remove heavy met... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1191418 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:29:05 +0100 1191418 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1191352&cid=t_166635_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F01%2F31%2Fis-autism-caused-by-a-vaccine-additive-no%2F Tonight, ABC will air the first episode of a new legal drama called Eli Stone. And what better way to make a drama riveting than to suggest that a debunked theory about the cause of autism is actually true? In the episode, a fictitious vaccine additive called mercuritol acts as a stand-in for the real thing — thimerosal, a preservative commonly used in childhood vaccines before 1999. In that year, the U.S. largely removed thimerosal from the market after concerns arose about the amount of mercury contained in it. High levels of mercury can lead to a wide array of health concerns, especially in infants and children. There has been no proven scientific connection between thimerosal and autism, and since being pulled from the market in the U.S. autism rates have not significantly drop... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1191352 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:00:17 +0100 1191352 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1188647&cid=t_166635_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F226107427%2F Autism is very real for me as it is, I think I can assume, for most of you reading this, whether you are autistic or you’re the parent, teacher, friend, grandparent, sister, brother, aunt, doctor, or otherwise know someone who has autism. Indeed, being my son’s parent has required me to think about some very real things as honestly as I can, from acknowledging that it’s best for his school programs to become more and more directed to vocational training and daily life skill—from saying that he “aggressed” a teacher—- to planning for the future by preparing a special needs trust. When you get down to it, that’s the basics of life with Charlie, a careful focus on getting through the days—with lots of stops to sit with him and enjoy the mo... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1188647 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:07:04 +0100 1188647 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1185821&cid=t_166635_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwomensbioethics.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F01%2Ffiction-or.html (Source: Women's Bioethics Blog) Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1185821 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:50:00 +0100 1185821 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1184704&cid=t_166635_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F225030272%2F This “Eli Stone” thing just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser, if not just a bit zany. “Eli Stone”ABC’s new legal drama, set to premier on January 31st, this Thursday and the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) has sent ABC a letter asking the network to cancel such a “reckless” show. The January 28th New York Times notes that ABC is defending the show and plans to air it as scheduled. Here are some more details from an article in USA Today: “Eli Stone” is a comedic legal drama: Stone has hallucinations featuring pop crooner George Michael, besides other “whimsical touches” (singing, dancing—-do I hear the pitter patter of the Ally McBeal baby?) Stone is diagnosed with “an inoperable brain aneurysm&#8... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1184704 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:34:17 +0100 1184704 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1182853&cid=t_166635_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F224663003%2F We don’t have a TV (thank heavens for the internet, so we could watch Barack Obama’s victory speech in South Carolina). So maybe I shouldn’t be shaking my head at ABC’s new legal drama, Eli Stone, which is set to premier January 31st. The first episode features lawyer Stone suing his former client, a Big Pharma-type company, on behalf of a mother who believes that her son became autistic from a vaccine containing the mercury-based preservative thimerasol, which is instead referred to as “mercuritol.” Being TV-less, I won’t be able to watch the courtroom drama and compare what Stone says with what the lawyers have been saying in vaccine court,the hearings for 4,800 claims filed by parents of autistic children who believe that their child’s autism was caus... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1182853 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:33:27 +0100 1182853