FDA links child deaths to chelation therapy

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Thu Mar-02-06 05:13 PM
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FDA links child deaths to chelation therapy

Drug used to treat lead, mercury poisoning; often used for autism

ATLANTA - A drug that is sometimes used to treat lead poisoning — and is also believed by some parents to be effective against autism — caused the deaths of two children last year, the government said Thursday.

One youngster was autistic; the other had lead poisoning.

CDC officials are also looking into the 2003 death of a 53-year-old woman in Oregon who was given chelation therapy by a practitioner of natural medicine.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11640868/

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Thu Mar-02-06 05:45 PM
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1. MSNBC got it wrong with the PA death

Last year, a 5-year-old Pennsylvania boy undergoing chelation went into cardiac arrest and died. A CDC doctor later blamed the death on a drug mix-up. Rather than receiving the intended chelation drug, the boy was given a look-alike and sound-alike drug that pulled too much calcium from his blood.

A survey by the Autism Research Institute, which promotes alternative therapies, found that 76 percent of parents who have tried chelation say their children improved. That's a higher reported success rate than for any other drug, supplement or special autism diet, the survey found.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/sunpub/naper/news/n14autism.htm

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