Update, 9am, 1 July: Today’s Washington Post has a story about Peter Hotez, the president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, the chair of George Washington University’s department of microbiology, immunology and tropical medicine, and a consultant to the Gates Foundation, which is helping to develop vaccines to fight neglected diseases; his 15-year-old daughter, Rachel, is autistic. The article also discusses the media controversy about vaccines and autism.

ABC news reports on a Sunday meeting in Indianapolis of government health officials about mitochondrial disorders. The day before, New York Times reporter Gardiner Harris wrote that the meeting had been called …read more

Salvatore Pizzuto—”disability policy specialist, learning consultant, transition specialist and parent/family advocate from East Rutherford”—writes in the June 26th Leader “(the Pulse of the Meadowlands)”:
Autism has become a buzz word in New Jersey that transcends other disabilities that affect children and adults, in terms of its diagnostic and political impact. Over the past two years, several New Jersey State legislators, including Gary Schaer and Joe Roberts, have introduced legislation designed to improve services for children with autism.
Pizzuto then reviews Tereance D. v. School District of Philadelphia, on which a decision was issued by the U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania in February …read more