For more than a year, Springfield radiologist David Ayoub has immersed himself in the noisy politics of a silent disease. He’s familiar with the characteristic blank stares of autistic toddlers and the quiet panic of parents wandering uncharted medical, financial, and emotional territory. He’s equally familiar with the quiet panic of pharmaceutical giants who can […]
Michleen Collins
Michleen Collins is a Springfield-based
freelance writer. Her work has appeared
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Toxic Rx
Dr. Spomemka Luedi is used to being ignored. Miles, her 9-year-old autistic son, won’t look her in the eye, talk, or listen. The Downers Grove dentist is one of many Illinois parents whose children began to show signs of autism after being vaccinated. In the ’90s, some research had identified a possible link between thimerosal, […]
