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Lori McIlwain is with the National Autism Association, which recently launched a new program called Family First, which is designed to give assistance to couples whose relationships are strained by caring for an autistic child. She recently joined Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to explain.
Investigative Journalist Dan Olmsted has written some of the best work about the autism epidemic. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to discuss his Age of Autism series which includes over 100 columns covering the history and science of autism. Dan recently authored his last installment in the UPI series.
Wendy Fournier of the National Autism Association joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss legislation that contains an amendment that would restrict the federal government’s ability to purchase vaccines with thimerosal. President Bush has threatened a veto.
New York Times Reporter David Kirby’s book Evidence of Harm: Mercury and Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic – A Medical Controversy won the 2005 Investigative Reporters and Editors’ Award. Now in paperback, Kirby says his work has helped change the course of the debate over whether thimerosal is a factor in the growing number of …
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Wendy Fournier is the president of the National Autism Association. She joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about her own family’s experience with autism as well as the latest research. She also updates listeners on legislation in the Senate to give the Food and Drug Administration oversight of the nation’s compounding pharmacies. …
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One in one hundred and fifty American children have some form of autism. That’s according to the latest research from the Centers for Disease Control. Reporter Dan Olmstead joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss possible causes of the autism epidemic.
Dan Olmsted is a senior editor for United Press International, and writes a regular column called “The Age of Autism” where he studies the link between Mercury in vaccines and Autism in children. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now in response to his recent article, “Problems in CDC data.” Some topics discussed were …
Laura Bono is a co-founder and Board Member of the National Autism Association, an organization that has been active in legislation and fundraising for the Autism Community. On this segment of Charlottesville-Right Now with Coy Barefoot, she discusses the Combating Autism Act, signed by President Bush on December 19th. This landmark piece of legislation authorizes …
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Laura Bono, founder of the National Autism Association, joins Coy Barefoot on the October 26th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now. Her son Jackson was born in 1989, and Laura says his health began to decline after his 16-month vaccinations. Jackson began to withdraw and regress developmentally, and was diagnosed as being autistic. “My husband Scott …
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Dan Olmsted is an investigative reporter for UPI who has written extensively about the autism epidemic, including a series called The Age of Autism. He joined Coy Barefoot on the August 24th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to speak with Coy Barefoot about his work. He’s been described as autism’s “Dick Tracy” by writer Evelyn …
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A Professor of Pharmacology at Northeastern University in Boston, Dr. Richard Deth is one of the leading scientists in the United States that is helping to unravel the mystery of autism– an illness which now effects 1 in 150 children in America. Dr. Deth joined Coy to discuss the very latest and exciting discoveries in …
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Secretary of Transportation Shannon Valentine and District Engineer for the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Culpeper District John Lynch talk about transportation in Central Virginia at the November meeting of the Senior Statesmen of Virginia.