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Electrifying performance elevates teen with autism to pillar of hope by ANDY HOAG, THE SAGINAW NEWS
Jason McElwain, the online basketball sensation who has become an inspiration, said all he wanted in life was a shot.
”It’s all about motivation. You gotta keep going. You have to go to the goal you want to go to,” McElwain, better known as J-Mac, told a crowd of at least 150 people Thursday at Saginaw Valley State University.
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Public Forum to Address Safety Issues on Vaccines By GARDINER HARRIS
WASHINGTON — In the midst of yet another controversy about whether vaccines cause autism, the federal government will hold its first ever public meeting on Friday to discuss a governmentwide research agenda to explore the safety of vaccines.
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Fighting the Autism-Vaccine War By Bernadine Healy M.D.
One of the most vitriolic debates in medical history is just beginning to have its day in court—vaccine court, that is. Without laying blame, the independent Office of Special Masters of the Court of Federal Claims—with a 20-year record of handling vaccine matters—recently conceded that the brain damage and autistic behavior of Hannah Poling stemmed from her exposure as a toddler to five vaccinations on one day in July 2000. Two days later, she was overtaken by a high fever and an encephalopathy that deteriorated into autistic behavior. Even though autism has a strong genetic basis, and she has a coexisting rare mitochondrial disorder, I would not be too quick to dismiss Hannah as an anomaly.At some level, the decision was a vindication for families who have been battling with the vaccine community, arguing that some poorly understood reaction to components of vaccines or their mercury-based preservative, thimerosal, could cause brain injury. Yes, vaccines are extraordinarily safe and bring huge public health benefit. (Remember the 1950s polio epidemics?) But vaccine experts tend to look at the population as a whole, not at individual patients. And population studies are not granular enough to detect individual metabolic, genetic, or immunological variation that might make some children under certain circumstances susceptible to neurological complications after vaccination.
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Tooele boy with autism helps save mom in labor
TOOELE, Utah (ABC 4 News) - An 11-year-old boy in Tooele will have an amazing story to tell his new baby sister when she gets a little older. Last week, he came to his mother’s aid when she unexpectedly went into labor, and he may have saved baby Rachel’s life.
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