/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ en-us derek-lowe@sbcglobal.net 2007-09-27T20:40:16-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/09/27/thimerosal_again.php Yet another study has shown no link between the former vaccine additive thimerosal and neurological problems in children. This one evaluated over a thousand seven-to-ten year olds for a long list of outcomes, and came up negative. No strong correlations... 72722@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Autism 2007-09-27T20:40:16-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2005/06/27/thimerosal_again.php Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has helped to put this issue right back on the front pages again. I spoke a lot about thimerosal in vaccines, and its putative link to autism, back in late 2002, which is when the controversy... 11243@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Autism 2005-06-27T22:10:48-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/10/a_mechanism_for_thimerosal.php There's some fresh news in the (quite possibly endless) debate about the vaccine preservative thimerosal. The Institute of Medicine is working on another report, due in several months. Their last report, in 2001, found no evidence to support a link,... 10895@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Autism 2004-03-10T00:08:05-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2004/01/13/here_and_there.php I wanted to take a moment to mention some interesting posts around Blogdom that readers may not have seen. In a response to the news on secretin for autism (see my post below), Dwight Meredith writes on what it was... 10854@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Autism 2004-01-13T16:25:18-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2003/01/06/compare_and_contrast.php Dwight Meredith over at PLA pointed out to me that the UC-Davis study on the prevalence of autism in California is online. It hasn't been published in a journal yet, and the JAMA paper I mentioned last week doesn't reference... 10839@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Autism 2003-01-06T16:02:02-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2003/01/02/the_rate_of_autism.php There's a new study out in JAMA (free full text here) on the incidence of autism in the US population. Before getting to what the article actually says, it's worth seeing what the media are saying it says. The New... 10837@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Autism 2003-01-02T15:59:58-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2002/12/22/clearance_sale.php While I'm on the subject, I'll mention some details that will be familiar to my fellow medicinal chemists. The body has a lot of mechanisms to deal with foreign substances. We assume that all our drugs are going to be... 10835@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Autism 2002-12-22T21:45:49-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2002/12/22/thimerosal_a_chemical_point.php I haven't posted on this issue recently (although I'm working on a column for TechCentral Station,) but Dr. Manhattan has been writing some good pieces on it (check the comments sections for more.) There's one thing I'd like to add,... 10834@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Autism 2002-12-22T21:44:45-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2002/12/22/thimerosal_a_chemical_point.php I haven't posted on this issue recently (although I'm working on a column for TechCentral Station,) but Dr. Manhattan has been writing some good pieces on it (check the comments sections for more.)There's one thing I'd like to add, as... 10833@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Autism 2002-12-22T11:36:23-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2002/12/22/clearance_sale.php While I'm on the subject, I'll mention some details that will be familiar to my fellow medicinal chemists. The body has a lot of mechanisms to deal with foreign substances. We assume that all our drugs are going to be... 10832@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Toxicology 2002-12-22T11:35:01-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2002/12/05/a_quick_tour_through_the_mudhole.php Before leaving this subject (for now,) I thought I'd take a look at some of the sites I mentioned that pop up when you do a Google search for thimerosal. I hope you all will pardon me for not directly... 10822@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Autism 2002-12-05T21:37:30-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2002/12/05/more_on_autism_and_mercury.php After reading my post below, I thought I should clarify a couple of things. I realize that some who believe in a thimerosal-autism link probably don't argue for a specific brain lesion effect (which spent yesterday's post argues against.) Rather,... 10821@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Autism 2002-12-05T21:34:25-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2002/12/05/more_on_autism_and_mercury.php After reading my post below, I thought I should clarify a couple of things. I realize that some who believe in a thimerosal-autism link probably don't argue for a specific brain lesion effect (which spent yesterday's post argues against.) Rather,... 10820@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Autism 2002-12-05T11:45:02-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2002/12/05/a_quick_tour_through_the_mudhole.php Before leaving this subject (for now,) I thought I'd take a look at some of the sites I mentioned that pop up when you do a Google search for thimerosal. I hope you all will pardon me for not directly... 10819@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Autism 2002-12-05T11:44:05-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2002/12/04/neurotoxins.php One reason that I have doubts about thimerosal as a cause of autism goes back to mechanism of action. Are there any specific compounds that are know to cause specific neurological problems? (There are plenty that cause more diffuse symptoms,... 10818@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Autism 2002-12-04T21:32:01-05:00