The Today show did a segment this week on vaccines and autism. Along with Dr. Paul Offit, Kristina Chew (AutismVox) was interviewed.
As an aside from the vaccine debate, I think we all need to say, “Go Charlie!!!”. I’ve read about Charlie (and dad) and the bike rides, now I’ve seen it. [...]

Let’s start with a cool comment I read early in the week. This is from Jeanette, aka mom26children.
I rest my very tired head, every night…I say my prayers and thank God for giving me the ability to be these children’s Mother. I thank God for the blessings I have received. I thank God for [...]

It’s pretty clear, I think, to anyone reading the variety of blogs in the autism “community” that there are big divisions. No factor is as divisive as the vaccine/autism notion, and in a short time Jenny McCarthy has come to be the representative of it.
Blogs have been covering Jenny McCarthy since her [...]

As a break from the usual blogfare, there is a Titoism post up at\LeftbrainRightBrain this week. If you haven’t read blog posts by Tito Mukhopadhyay (a young adult with autism), or even if you have, it’s worth reading Creativity.
Probably the big news item for the week was the Presidential Debates. Senator McCain pulled [...]

I started this blog by doing some pieces on blogs I’ve liked–as I’ve added them to the blogroll, I gave a description of why. I haven’t done it in a while, but I’ve got a lot of blogs I’d like to add.
This addition is sWell, written by Dr. Rahul Parikh. Dr. Parikh is [...]

These are blog posts that have caught my eye recently. I am not trying to read all the blogs and filter the best, rather just point out which ones in my own random walk through the internet I thought were worth a mention.
First, the blog posts on the PETA “Got Autism” campaign.
Perseveration.org tried to [...]

I recently blogged about frustrations with the way the Institute of Medicine was portrayed by Dr. Bernadine Healy.  My frustrations led me to do what Dr. Healy and Sharyl Attkisson did not do: contact the IOM for a comment.
After posting that, I sent the following email to Dr. Healy through the web-based interface at US [...]

There is a recent paper out on mitochondrial mutations and made the news. The LeftBrain/RightBrain blog discussed this some, but since Mitochondrial medicine in currently a hot-topic in the autism community, I was planning on taking a close look at the paper. But, “Prometheus” at the “Photon in the Darkness” blog has taken [...]

Epiwonk isn’t a specifically autism blog. Instead, it is a blog that multiple issues in the current news/literature. As you can imagine from the name, epiwonk has a very strong epidemiology leaning. Taken from the main page:
Epi Wonk (that’s me) has a Ph.D. in epidemiology. I worked for more than 30 [...]

There are a number of blogs that I have found useful and/or informative. I’ll be adding those to the blogroll on the right. As I do, will likely add a post like this about the blog.
The first blog I’ve chosen* is “AutismVox“. Kristina Chew writes it. Kristina (just in case you [...]