SAN MATEO, Calif., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- San Mateo Calif.-based Autism Recovery Consortium today announced that Dr. Jeff Bradstreet, as well as a number of parents of autistic children, are available for comment on the hearing being held by The Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C. where Dr. Bradstreet will present his latest findings in a paper entitled "Biological Evidence of Significant Vaccine Related Side-Effects Resulting in Neurodevelopmental Disorders."
Dr. Bradstreet will introduce new information on possible links between autism (a rapidly rising epidemic among children throughout the United States), the mercury preservative thimerosal, and the Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) vaccine. Dr. Bradstreet, who is also the father of a child recovering from autism, has the largest patient population of children with ASD (autistic spectrum disorder) in the U.S.
While experts in the medical field are striving to find causes and cures for autism, desperate parents of autistic children are fiercely fighting to bring their children back. Elizabeth Horn, president of Autism Recovery Consortium and mother of a child with autism, is a filmmaker producing a PBS documentary on how autistic children recover. Ms. Horn, along with a growing number of doctors working to recover these children, created the Consortium to share information on successful protocols and to get the message out that kids can recover.
Both Jeff Bradstreet, M.D. and Elizabeth Horn, together with other parents of autistic children, are available to comment on today's debate. Please contact Mei Li at 650-627-1063, or meili_2000@yahoo.com.
About Jeff Bradstreet MD FAAFP
Dr. Bradstreet is the founder of the International Child Development Resource Center in Florida and serves as the Director of Clinical Programs for children with ADHD and Autism. He is an Adjunct Professor of Neurosciences at Stetson University in Florida and the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Phoenix, Arizona. He has presented his findings on childhood environmental and developmental disorders to the Institute of Medicine- National Academies of Science, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, the US Congress, and numerous medical symposia around the world. Dr. Bradstreet serves as an active collaborator on research projects at numerous medical schools, and recently published a landmark case controlled study of the levels of mercury in children with autism spectrum disorders. He is in the process of submitting a case series on measles viral detection in the cerebral spinal fluid of children with autism. Dr. Bradstreet received his medical degree from the University of South Florida College of Medicine and his residency training at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center.
About Elizabeth Horn
For the past twenty years Elizabeth Horn has been the president of Horn Productions, Inc., a San Mateo, CA-based film production company specializing in high-end corporate films. The company enjoys a reputation as one of the leading production companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ms. Horn has produced documentary films for Apple Computer including "Jacksonville," the story of what happened to a little town in Oregon when Apple gave a majority of the small businesses in town their first computers; and "Search for the Z," a film for the BBC on the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's atom-smashing collider project. She has also developed several Silicon Valley-based films for production including "My Dinners with Apple," chronicling the history of the most famous start-up in the Valley through the eyes of the two founders, its current chairman and a cast of original Apple employees; and "Silicon Valley," a comprehensive and ambitious series for PBS. Currently, Ms. Horn is producing a documentary for PBS entitled "Finding the Words" about children recovering from autism. Prior to her work in the production field, she was director of marketing communication for a number of Silicon Valley firms, as well as a marketing consultant to several start-ups.
Autism Recovery ConsortiumCONTACT: Mei Li, +1-650-627-1063, or meili_2000@yahoo.com, for AutismRecovery Consortium