I’ve a couple of ideas for posts about topics like prenatal genetic testing, vaccines and more about vaccines, gestation and future health problems and the like but since it’s getting later in the evening (out here on the East Coast) I’m just going to reference an article from no less august a body than the Style section of last Sunday’s New York Times and specifically an article on how the economic crisis is affecting teens whose parents have never been able to say, no, you don’t need more Abercrombie. Given the near-constant talk about the “cost” of raising a special …read more

Jim noted to me last night that the stock market is now pretty much back to where it was around the time Charlie was born.
Having spent the past ten days writing about vaccines and autism for the Science Blogs Book Club, it’s occurred to me that the whole vaccine-autism issue has been part of, and even dominated, public discussion about autism for most of Charlie’s life. It was in 1998 that Dr. Andrew Wakefield announced that he had found the cause of autism—-the MMR vaccine—and launched far more than a thousand discussions, diatribes, and disputed claims.
10 years, 11 years and …read more