IOM: Research into vaccines-cause-autism counterproductive.

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Dr. Bernadine HealyDr. Bernadine Healy was appointed by the first President Bush andapproved by the US Senate to be the first woman to ever run our NationalInstitutes of Health, serving as Director in the early 1990s. At thatpoint, the NIH had thirteen separate research institutions, more than16,000 employees, and a research budget exceeding $9 billion per year.From the NIH website:"The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the US Department ofHealth & Human Services is the primary Federal agency for conducting andsupporting medical research. Helping to lead the way toward importantmedical discoveries that improve people's health and save lives, NIHscientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as the causes,treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases… NIH is thesteward of medical and behavioral research for the Nation. Its missionis science in pursuit

of fundamental knowledge about the nature andbehavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge toextend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability."A graduate of Vassar College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Healy isalso the past President of the American Red Cross and was the Directorof coronary care at Johns Hopkins. She's medical establishmentroyalty. If Dr. Healy is the Ted Williams of her field, Paul Offit isstruggling to make his neighborhood T-Ball team--that's how big she is.And, on April 18th, 2008 Dr. Healy dropped a bomb in an article shewrote for US News & World Report:But vaccine experts tend to look at the population as a whole, not atindividual patients. And population studies are not granular enough todetect individual metabolic, genetic, or immunological variation thatmight make some children under certain circumstances susceptible

toneurological complications after vaccination…Families are not alone in searching for a trigger that might explain whyautism and autism spectrum disorders have skyrocketed; now theyreportedly affect about 1 in 150 kids. No doubt some of the increase issoft, due to broader diagnostic criteria, greater awareness, and—nowthat the notion of a detached "refrigerator" mom as a cause hasblessedly fallen by the wayside—greater openness. But the rise ofthis disorder, which shows up before age 3, happens to coincide with theincreased number and type of vaccine shots in the first few years oflife. So as a trigger, vaccines carry a ring of both historical andbiological plausibility…The debate roils on—even about research. The Institute of Medicinein its last report on vaccines and autism in 2004 said that moreresearch on the vaccine question is counterproductive: Finding

asusceptibility to this risk in some infants would call into question theuniversal vaccination strategy that is a bedrock of immunizationprograms and could lead to widespread rejection of vaccines. The IOMconcluded that efforts to find a link between vaccines and autism "mustbe balanced against the broader benefit of the current vaccine programfor all children."Wow. Medicine has moved ahead only because doctors, researchers, andyes, families, have openly challenged even the most sacred medicaldogma. At the risk of incurring the wrath of some of my dearestcolleagues, I say thank goodness for the vaccine court.Thank you, Dr. Healy, for approaching this topic with the intellectualhonesty and fearlessness you are famous for throughout your storiedcareer..

"The public has many questions about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. While more parents are showing increased concern about these issues and the growing number of vaccines to be administered to infants and children from day one of life, there is a growing interest on the part of vaccine manufacturers, state legislatures and medical societies to enforce vaccination on all children, through the passing of more and more state vaccine mandates, without first having a dialogue with the public, or the medical community." - Dr Lawrence Palevsky, MD. Pediatrician.

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