Topic: The Age of Autism

Susan Lynn would like some information, please: What is the autism rate among people living in the United States right now who have never been vaccinated? If yo

What do the experts say about the idea that genes could explain a lower rate of autism among the Amish? Well, two noted medical geneticists say it's entirely po

A specter is haunting the medical and journalism establishments of the United States: Where are the unvaccinated people with autism?

Throughout the 1920s a scientist named Morris Kharasch filed a blizzard of applications with the U.S. Patent Office.

Until now the debate over a possible link between ethyl mercury and autism has focused on its use in vaccines beginning in the 1930s, when the first children diagnosed with the disorder were born, but medicines were not the only commercial products to har

This column receives a welcome avalanche of correspondence, but our recent discussion of autism as a "whole-body illness" has generated more e-mail and faster than any other topic we've considered.

In our last column, "A whole-body illness," we wrote: "Something is medically wrong with many, many autistic children. To be more precise, many things are wrong

One advantage of writing an ongoing column is trends become evident as readers respond over time -- trends that might not emerge in a single installment, no matter how detailed.

Several readers have taken us to task for continuing to highlight what they consider unsupported beliefs that might scare parents away from life-saving vaccinations for their children. Here are comments that summarize that viewpoint.

Regression, regression, regression. That's the theme of much of the e-mail this column has received, sparked by two recent installments.