Is Chelation a Cure?
Controlled studies are to be done on the use of Chelation Therapy as an autism treatment, now there is some controversy over this, as chelation is a treatment for heavy metal poisoning, which has not been linked as a cause for autism …
Thethyme's - http://thethyme.wordpress.com|||Should We Study Chelation for Autism?
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) supports doing a study on the effects of oral chelation therapy in autism. The proposal is highly controversial, is drawing criticism from many scientists, but has popular support among …
Science-Based Medicine - http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/
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On one hand, it would put to rest once and for all the issue of whether chelation benefits autistic children (except it won’t. When it finds chelation does nothing it will simply be attacked as crap by the anti-vaccine/autism groups). …
Left Brain/Right Brain - http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk|||Lead chelation treatment for autism?
Parents push for chelation study. "Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine," wrote …
Julie's Health Club - http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/features_julieshealthclub/|||Chelation and autism in Time
Several times the writer highlights the lack of evidence for chelation as beneficial to autistic people. There is a quote from a believer mum, who reckons chelation helped her five year old son settle at school, followed up with; …
The Voyage - http://thefamilyvoyage.blogspot.com/|||Newsweek Article Highlights Chelation Study
Chelation therapy, as discussed in this article, is a series of intravenous infusions containing disodium EDTA and various other substances. It is sometimes done by swallowing EDTA or other agents in pill form. …
Mutterings Of A Mindless Mommy - http://www.mindlessmommy.com|||AP: Feds may test chelation therapy against autism. Some say huh?
The Tracker does not believe things have so changed - since he was a regular on the medical beat - that this rule of thumb needs adjustment: If a doc says he or she plans chelation therapy for anything but acute heavy metal toxicity, …
Knight Science Journalism Tracker - http://ksjtracker.mit.edu|||NIMH Supports Testing Chelation on Autistic Children
In today's news I learned that the head of the National Institutite of Mental Health supports testing chelation on autistic kids. That's right. America's top mental health guy thinks it's a good idea to test an unproven, crackpot, …
Skepticat's Litter Box - http://skepticat.blogspot.com/|||Parents push for federal study of chelation to treat autism
The process, called chelation, is used to treat lead poisoning. Studies of adults have shown it to be ineffective unless there are high levels of metals in the blood. Any study in children would have to exclude those with high levels of …
Media dis&dat - http://media-dis-n-dat.blogspot.com/|||Medical ethics, children, and chelation therapy for autism …
Handley's all in a lather because the Associate Press published a story yesterday about a proposed NIH-sponsored clinical trial of chelation therapy for autism entitled Fringe autism treatment could get federal study. …
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