On baby teeth, metals and autism

So: " using novel biomarkers of early life exposure, we observed differences in uptake of multiple toxic and essential elements over th...

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Blood heavy metal levels and autism (yet again)

" Data showed that the children with ASD  [autism spectrum disorder]  had significantly (p < 0.001) higher levels of mercury and ar...

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Heavy metals, heavy conflicts and autism?

Two papers are presented for your reading delight today, both based on the often contentious issue of heavy metals and autism . The first pa...

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Cochrane does chelation for autism

Cochrane, in the title of this post, refers to the Cochrane Collaboration  and the sterling work done throughout health care synthesising pe...

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Toxic metal accumulation and autism?

To quote from the recent paper by Altaf Alabdali and colleagues [1] (open-access) " This study confirms earlier studies that implicate...

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Environmental toxicants and autism reviewed

So: " The findings of this review suggest that the etiology of ASD [autism spectrum disorder]  may involve, at least in a subset of chi...

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