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 'hannah poling'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:39:47 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2074315&cid=t_172838_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FjsxVi4TrMdc%2F I would say I wrote a lot, and probably too much, about Jenny McCarthy in 2008 (and writing less about her, and about the whole vaccine-autism idea, is making its way higher and higher up onto my list of New Year’s resolutions). Nonetheless, vaccines dominated discussions about autism in March in the wake of announcements about the case of Hannah Poling, whose “pre-existing mitochondrial disorder…. was ‘aggravated’ by her shots” and led to symptoms of autism, as conceded by the U.S. Federal Court of Claims. A lot of debate followed about the Vaccine Court, to the point of general vaccine fixation. Some mentions of birdsong and fish, and then, in the course of yet again saying it’ not the vaccines, some thoughts about why this is such a personal matter. Also: Insur... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2074315 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:10:30 +0100 2074315 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1996397&cid=t_172838_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F_DHjvzBCogs%2F Earlier this year, reports that the US Federal Court of Claims had conceded that vaccines had contributed to the onset of autistic symptoms in the case of Hannah Poling led to much speculation and debate about (1) if mitochondrial disorders could be linked to autism and (2) how common mitochondrial disorders might be among autistic children. A number of experts on mitonchondrial disorders met in June to discuss the “controversial case” of Hannah Poling. An article in the November 26th PLoS One entitled Mitochondrial Disease in Autism Spectrum Disorder Patients: A Cohort Analysis investigates the medical records of 25 patients with a primary diagnosis of ASD by DSM-IV-TR criteria. These children were later determined to have “enzyme- or mutation-defined mitochondrial electron tran... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1996397 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:32:19 +0100 1996397 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1914719&cid=t_172838_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FEJPiVH7UjvA%2F For the past two weeks something’s been up with Charlie’s teeth, or so we think. He’s been chewing the string on his sweatshirt and his shirt and poking a finger into his mouth (on the upper right side, I think) and just dabbing at some parts of his teeth with his toothbrush (still brushing the fronts). This has certainly been the Year of Losing Teeth; there’ve been more than a few times when, after a fretful, unsettled day, Charlie has been found with a bloody tooth in his fingers. After a check-up in August, Charlie’s dentist noted that he was right on schedule to be losing so many teeth. This latest instance of possible-pain-in-the-mouth has been going on for awhile so Monday afternoon I found myself calling the dentist’s office and felt most fortunat... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1914719 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:00:19 +0100 1914719 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1852670&cid=t_172838_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2Fm9k8Bf0s07I%2F “Stem cells. Gene therapy. Immune protection.” This is the first line of an article about…….what do you think? The latest treatments for autism? The article’s about skin care products. Products that claim to provide “‘cellular level cleansing’” (shades of autism detox) and that have “medical-sounding” names starting with “bio-, micro- and pro-”: There’s: “biomolecular” eye cream; “microtechnology bio active” foundation; “pro-collagen” serum; “microsmoothing” face serum; and a “bio-stimulating” night cream with “microlift. The article appeared in the October 1st New York Times and certainly it’s nothing new that cosmetics company have used “multisyllabic pharmacological-soun... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1852670 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:16:52 +0100 1852670 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1852673&cid=t_172838_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FLf2mTLC7NHo%2F While the evidence refuting a vaccine/mercury link to autism continues to pile up, a connection between them seems to have become lodged in the public consciousness, as the recent survey on attitudes about autism from Florida of Institute of Technology suggests. One case that has attracted a particular lot of attention was that of a girl from Georgia, Hannah Poling. Back in March, it was reported that the government had conceded that Hannah’s “pre-existing mitochondrial disorder…. was ‘aggravated’ by her shots.” This decision was widely, widely discussed and the question repeatedly raised about how common mitochondrial disorders are in autistic children. One study cited was a 2007 article, Epidemiology of autism spectrum disorder in Portugal: prevalence, clinical charac... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1852673 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:28:52 +0100 1852673 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1696274&cid=t_172838_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FZ2tWGxDZUrI%2F In conclusion, at least one in 200 healthy humans harbors a pathogenic mtDNA mutation that potentially causes disease in the offspring of female carriers. The exclusive detection of m.14484TCon haplogroup J implicates the background mtDNA haplotype in mutagenesis. These findings emphasize the importance of developing new approaches to prevent transmission. Again, mitochondrial disease is linked to a number of diseases, with autism spectrum disorder only one among them. Further, the symptoms of mitochondrial disorder are these, according to the UMDF: loss of motor control, muscle weakness and pain, gastro-intestinal disorders and swallowing difficulties, poor growth, cardiac disease, liver disease, diabetes, respiratory complications, seizures, visual/hearing problems, lactic acidosis, deve... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1696274 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:18:08 +0100 1696274 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1686314&cid=t_172838_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2Fn0gJ56IQXoI%2F According to the claim that vaccines or something in vaccines can be linked to autism—the source of much discussion and dissent for most of my son’s life—-autistic persons are “damaged” and “injured”; they were once “normal,” “typical” and “ok.” The notion that vaccines or mercury poisoning are the cause of autism not only poses some potential health hazards, but also creates an image of autistic children and adults as “less than [the rest of us]” due to a short; as “damaged goods.” Whereas, genetic studies on the causes of autism suggest that, far from being an “accident” that befalls an up-to-then “normal” family, autism is very much in the family. While neither m... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1686314 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:38:50 +0100 1686314 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1677227&cid=t_172838_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FLJQIW_5enZo%2F Over at Primary Source in an August 1st post, Sharyl Attkisson discusses the case of Hannah Poling and says that “it’s the first time we know of that the government has ‘conceded’ an autism case in vaccine court.” Attkisson then writes: But CBS News has learned the government has previously been court-ordered to pay on other vaccine injury cases in which a child ended up with damage including autism or autistic symptoms [my emphasis]. In one case from 1986, the child had a pre-existing condition that the court decided was aggravated by his vaccinations. Here, the pre-existing condition was “tuberous sclerosis” or TS. According to court testimony, many children with TS will suffer seizures and brain damage. However, the longer they can go before hav... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1677227 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:02:27 +0100 1677227 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1671585&cid=t_172838_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F352303035%2F This week my summer school class on Psychology and Literature read Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. On Thursday morning the students had a quiz in which they had to “diagnose” Christopher, the novel’s main character, with autism or Asperger Syndrome, based on the DSM criteria. We also talked about the book in terms of development (looking at Erik Erikson’s stages) and also in regard to theories of social psychology, such as moral exclusion and dehumanization; its concrete, visual language; its plot that’s set into motion when Christopher finds Wellington, a neighbor’s black dog, impaled with a gardening stake and determines to find out whodunnit and so starts (as he says) “detecting.” In his detecting, Ch... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1671585 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:57:51 +0100 1671585 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1554569&cid=t_172838_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F322591983%2F The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is holding a meeting today with leading experts on an mitochondrial disorders to discuss the controversial case of a 9-year-old girl from Athens, Georgia, who became autistic after receiving numerous vaccinations, The New York Times reports. But, the paper writes, the government has so far kept quiet about a second case that some say is more disturbing and more relevant to the meeting. On Jan. 11, a 6-year-old girl from Colorado received the FluMist vaccine and about a week later “became weak with multiple episodes of falling to ground” and “difficulty walking,” according to a case report filed with federal health officials and obtained by the Times. The girl grew increasingly weak and feverish and “became more limp, appears sleepy,... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1554569 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:05:22 +0100 1554569 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1551449&cid=t_172838_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F321622032%2F Ever since March when the government conceded that vaccines had “aggravated” a pre-existing mitochondrial disorder and led to symptoms of autism in a 9-year-old girl, Hannah Poling, whether there’s any link between mitonchondrial disorders and autism has been under questions. Is there a “subpopulation of mitochondrial autism“?, Hannah Poling’s father, Dr. Jon Poling has asked. Researchers at Medical Neurogenetics have said they have found evidence of a genetic link and mitochondrial disease. Anecdotally, I’ve heard parents of autistic children seeking out tests for mitochondrial disorders. In the June 28th New York Times, Gardiner Harris (who has previously reported on vaccines and autism) writes about a meeting on Sunday in Indianapolis that feder... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1551449 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:54:56 +0100 1551449 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1367952&cid=t_172838_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F268631964%2F From an op-ed in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution by neurologist Jon S. Poling, the father of Hannah Poling, with a proposal for more research in the “mitochondrial autism”: Emerging evidence suggests that mitochondrial dysfunction may not be rare at all among children with autism. In the only population-based study of its kind, Portuguese researchers confirmed that at least 7.2 percent, and perhaps as many as 20 percent, of autistic children exhibit mitochondrial dysfunction. While we do not yet know a precise U.S. rate, 7.2 percent to 20 percent of children does not qualify as “rare.” In fact, mitochondrial dysfunction may be the most common medical condition associated with autism. …… Although unlikely, if the Portuguese studies are incorrec... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1367952 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:00:47 +0100 1367952 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1332543&cid=t_172838_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fleftbrainrightbrain.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D757 Over on the Huffington Post, David Kirby has posted about The Next Big Autism Bomb. Its a very long post so take a sammich. The gist (with apologies to Mr Kirby) of it is that there was a conference call to discuss the autism/mito issues: On Tuesday, March 11, a conference call was held between vaccine safety officials at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, several leading experts in vaccine safety research, and executives from America’s Health Insurance Plans, (the HMO trade association) to discuss childhood mitochondrial dysfunction and its potential link to autism and vaccines. The purpose of the call was: “We need to find out if there is credible evidence, theoretically, to support the idea that childhood mitochondrial dysfunction might regress into a... Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1332543 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:07:06 +0100 1332543 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1327536&cid=t_172838_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fleftbrainrightbrain.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D755 I read with interest Dr Schuchat’s opinion piece in the AJC today. Whilst it is gratifying to see someone of Dr Schuchat’s calibre responding to previous claims regarding vaccines in autism I would like to make a few points to Dr Schuchat and the CDC in general. Firstly, this level of response is around eight years too late. What have you been doing on the media/PR front over the last eight years? I’ll tell you what your ‘opponents’ have been doing – they’ve been conducting protests outside your offices, outside the offices of the AAP etc. They’ve been setting up and organising vaccine/autism groups and heavily marketing them via the use of organic and paid for web based advertising. The only people who have made any kind of attempt to ... Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1327536 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:41:52 +0100 1327536 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1303318&cid=t_172838_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fleftbrainrightbrain.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D748 In sum, DVIC has concluded that the facts of this case meet the statutory criteria for demonstrating that the vaccinations CHILD received on July 19, 2000, significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder, which predisposed her to deficits in cellular energy metabolism, and manifested as a regressive encephalopathy with features of autism spectrum disorder. – HHS If one has the right set of “features” of autism, one has autism…...Hannah Poling has autism—as defined in every book, in every library, in every university in the world. Dr. Parikh’s insistence otherwise is perplexing. – David Kirby, to EoH group in response to Dr. Parikh’s article in Salon. Its a massively ambiguous point. Do ‘features of autism’ equa... Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1303318 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:48:36 +0100 1303318 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1292298&cid=t_172838_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fleftbrainrightbrain.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D745 The person answering the questions below is someone very familiar with the Vaccine Courts. I agreed to respect their privacy by not naming them but for ease of reference I’ll refer to them as Legal Larry. David Kirby says: In this case, HHS agreed to pay out compensation and there was no need to go to a hearing. The Polings could not reject the compensation agreement and insist on a hearing if they wanted to. This was supposed to be a test case. But the government did not want this to go to a hearing, not the Polings. But the family had no choice. Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but when you apply for VICP compensation, and you receive it, it’s pretty much take-it-or-leave-it at that point, very much unlike a regular civil lawsuit that might get a settlement &#8220... Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1292298 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:45:59 +0100 1292298 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1287856&cid=t_172838_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FWomensBioethicsBlog%2F%7E3%2F247779625%2Fautism-vaccine-settlement.html The parents of nine-year old Hannah Poling, daughter of a Georgia couple, speak out about the government's admission of responsibility for their daughter's vaccine-linked autism, and have agreed to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Women's Bioethics Blog) Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1287856 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:29:09 +0100 1287856