Archive for March, 2012
Monday, March 19th, 2012 @ 11:36AM
Professor John Walker Smith Exonerated in Autism MMR Case
The recent ruling by Judge Mitting, quashing the GMC verdict against Professor Walker-Smith, is very welcome news! Professor Walker-Smith acted as medical professionals should, using his extensive knowledge and skills to help children who were truly ill. Very sadly, there are thousands upon thousands of children with autism who are…
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Monday, March 12th, 2012 @ 11:36AM
NAC supplement useful for treating irritability in children with autism
An imbalance in the excitatory/inhibitory systems with abnormalities in the glutamatergic pathways has been implicated in the pathophysiology of autism. Furthermore, chronic redox imbalance was also recently linked to this disorder. The goal of this pilot study was to assess the feasibility of using oral N-acetylcysteine (NAC), a glutamatergic modulator…
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