http://www.mitoaction.org/taxonomy/term/16 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.mitoaction.org/blog/autism-and-mitochondrial-disease <p>This week, a finding from November of 2007 hit the news, after being sealed by Federal Courts to protect the plaintiff’s identity. The US government has conceded one vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims. Of significant interest, the vaccine is thought to have triggered the onset of an underlying mitochondrial disease.</p><p><a href="http://www.mitoaction.org/blog/autism-and-mitochondrial-disease">read more</a></p> http://www.mitoaction.org/blog/autism-and-mitochondrial-disease#comments Autism News POV Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 admin 89 at http://www.mitoaction.org http://www.mitoaction.org/blog/looking-normal <p>For six months we have been fighting with our insurance company in order to get our daughter Eva a wheelchair. She turns 4 in April, and all of a sudden we left the world of overgrown baby items and crossed over into the land of special needs and durable medical equipment. Eva has Leigh’s disease, a form of mitochondrial disease, that affects her muscles and neurologic system such that she cannot walk or talk. Sounds terrible, right?<p><a href="http://www.mitoaction.org/blog/looking-normal">read more</a></p> http://www.mitoaction.org/blog/looking-normal#comments Living with Mito Our Stories POV Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 admin 84 at http://www.mitoaction.org