Weekend Autism Global News in Review - 10/17/09

Originally Aired Sat, 10/17/2009 - 12:30pm

Rob, Deb and Michael Sidell review several important articles including the HRSA release that the incidence of ASD has now reached 1 in 91 and 1 in 58 boys, a recent epidemiological perspective detailed in Nature magazine, a very hopeful story of how a Dad in Europe has started a high tech consulting firm employing 40 people with ASD, an update to the CO:Writer technology, a new study indicates that the Hep b vaccine is in fact harmful, a hopeful article about super charched stem cells, our sister organization, Safe Minds, ask why a proven neurotoxin is still used in seasonal flu and H1N1 vaccines and an article about the need for a standardization of core gene markers in the information distributed by companies that offer genome sequencing.

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