Taken from the Pittsburg Post-Gazette:
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
By Karen Kane and Virginia Linn, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A 5-year-old Monroeville boy died this week during a medical treatment that’s being touted by some as a cure for autism.
The autistic boy died while receiving chelation — an intravenous injection of a synthetic amino acid known as EDTA, for ethylene […]
In 1976, due to a health scare over red dye #2, M&M/Mars pulled the red M&M from its assortment of candy colors. In actuality, the candy never even contained the offending dye, but the company, wanting to distance itself from scandal, yielded to the public outcry and quietly removed all red M&Ms from the market. […]
I don’t know how many of you saw the irresponsible and woefully one-sided 60 Minutes broadcast on Wednesday. Hopefully most were happily tuned in to the MLB playoffs that night. I’ve been meaning to post about it, but when someone on one of my message boards posted the official letter of outrage from the National […]
I saw a segment on ABC’s Good Morning America this morning about a couple who had three sons (one older child, and then a set of twins), all of whom had been diagnosed with autism.
I tuned in because, in the promo, they spoke of the “controversial new treatment” the couple sought in trying to heal […]