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