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The Coalition for SafeMinds (Sensible Action For Ending Mercury-Induced Neurological Disorders) is a private nonprofit organization founded to investigate and raise awareness of the risks to infants and children of exposure to mercury from medical products, including thimerosal in vaccines. SafeMinds supports research on the potential harmful effects of mercury and thimerosal.
Our Year in Review: 2009 Accomplishments
As SafeMinds undertakes new goals for the New Year, we look at our 2009 accomplishments and are amazed by the hard work and commitment to excellence it represents on the part of our Board and volunteers. Read more.
SPEAK UP ABOUT VACCINE SAFETY
For anyone concerned with vaccine safety, now is the time to speak up!
Join SafeMinds and the Coalition for Vaccine Safety in calling for Congressional hearings to investigate the Department of Health and Human Services for failure to address vaccine safety issues. Click here to contact your representative. Read press release.
News and Updates
SafeMinds Advocates for an Energy Policy that has Mercury Reduction as its Primary Goal
Scott Laster, SafeMinds Environmental Committee
Coal naturally contains high amounts of mercury. When coal is burned in coal power plants to produce electricity, it creates two sources of mercury exposure: a) mercury emissions into the atmosphere and b) mercury in coal-combustible by-products (CCBs) such as fly ash. Read more. Download SafeMinds energy policy.
GMC Rules Against Wakefield et al., Yet Medical Establishment Agrees
Further Study of GI Disease in Children with Autism Is Top Priority
JANUARY 27, 2010 SAFEMINDS PRESS RELEASE
Today the General Medical Council (GMC), the regulatory body for doctors in the UK, made findings of fact in connection to a complaint filed by journalist Brian Deer. The complaint alleged conflicts of interest and unethical research against Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Dr. John Walker-Smith and Dr. Simon Murch relating to their 1998 case series published in the Lancet. As a result of these findings, the GMC will now determine the severity and appropriate sanctions, which could go so far as the loss of their licenses to practice medicine. Download full release here.
Autism - CDC Avoids the Elephant in the Room
A study released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that
autism prevalence has increased a staggering 57% from the 1994 rate of 1 in 150 to 1 in 110
for children born in 1998. SafeMinds is extremely dissatisfied with CDC’s lack of commitment to
researching environmental causes and the timing of their announcement. Download full release.
CDC Study Expected to Announce 1 in 100 Autism Rate—A Startling 50% Jump in Just Two Years. Evidence Points to an Environmental Trigger. SafeMinds calls for more targeted environmental research and vaccine safety studies to begin immediately.
DECEMBER 16, 2009 SAFEMINDS PRESS RELEASE
Atlanta, GA – Researchers report that autism has risen to an epidemic rate of 1 in 100 children in a study to be released on Friday by the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network office of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), This rate represents a 50% increase between the two birth cohort years of 1994 and 1996 and mirrors a recent study released by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which found a rate of 1 in 91 children, 1 in 58 boys. Read more.
Is Your Baby Crawling On Carpet Made Of Coal Ash?
Deirdre Imus (SafeMinds Board Member), Huffington Post, 11/23/09
People are getting fed up with the broken promises made by bureaucrats who say one thing and do another. They consistently use our children and their "future" as props to advance their agendas on a variety of issues but are equally consistent in doing "too little, too late" when it comes to taking the necessary actions that will actually give those children a healthy future. Read more.