Chelating

Chelating: To remove (a heavy metal, such as lead or mercury) from the bloodstream by means of a chelate, such as EDTA.

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Boy dies during autism treatment
Thursday, August 25, 2005

By Karen Kane and Virginia Linn, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A 5-year-old autistic boy died Tuesday in a Butler County doctor's office while undergoing an increasingly popular though controversial medical treatment touted by some as a cure for the lifelong neurological and developmental disorder.

Abubakar Tariq Nadama died while receiving chelation therapy, an intravenous injection of a synthetic amino acid that latches onto heavy metals and is then passed in the urine.

State police at Butler are investigating Nadama's death, which occurred at about 10:50 a.m. Tuesday in the office of Dr. Roy Eugene Kerry in Portersville.

Authorities said Kerry's office reported that the child was receiving an IV treatment for lead poisoning when he went into cardiac arrest.

The boy was being treated with EDTA, or ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid, which has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use only after blood tests confirm acute heavy-metal poisoning.

Exposure to heavy metals, especially mercury, has been linked by some researchers as a contributing cause to autism.

Removing those metals, they believe, can improve a child's condition. The theory is a matter of dispute among scientists and within the autism community.

A family friend said the boy and his mother, Marwa, who are from England, moved here in the spring, specifically to receive chelation therapy, and were living in Monroeville.

In the autism community, the use of chelation as a way to detoxify environmental contaminants in children has exploded since 2000 as more and more families have reported miraculous improvements and even cures. But skeptics in the community say they fear the procedure is at best risky and possibly lethal. "It was just a matter of time before something like this would happen," said Howard Carpenter, executive director of the Advisory Board on Autism-Related Disorders.

"Parents of children with autism are desperate. Some are willing to try anything," he said.

"I can't sit there and endorse it as a viable treatment. It's not something published in peer review journals and studies," said Dr. Gary Swanson, a child psychiatrist at Allegheny General Hospital who works with autism patients. "It's probably a quack kind of medicine."

If the child's death is tied to chelation therapy, it would be the first associated with the procedure since the 1950s, said Dr. Ralph Miranda of Greensburg. Miranda is the former president of the American College for Advancement in Medicine, a group that sets clinical practice and education standards for chelation and other, similar therapies.

Chelation can be administered through pills, skin creams or other transdermal methods, nasal sprays, sauna baths and intravenously. Miranda said it is unusual to give a young child IV treatments unless he has an extremely high level of heavy metals.

He said although EDTA is a "very safe drug" he usually administers an oral form of chelation drugs to children to remove toxins because pills are safer. It does, however, take longer to remove the toxins with the pills.

"There are people out there suggesting using the IV to get faster results. I'm not," he said.

Marwa Nadama said yesterday she did not want to comment except to say that she is not blaming chelation for her son's death, at least not at this point.

"Let's wait until we have the results of the autopsy," she said.

An autopsy conducted yesterday on the child's body by the Allegheny County coroner's office was inconclusive. Results on the cause and manner of death are pending additional testing which could take up to five months to complete, authorities said.

Kerry, who is a board-certified physician and surgeon, advertises himself as an ear, nose and throat specialist, dealing with allergies and environmental medicine. He operates out of offices in Greenville and Portersville under the name Advanced Integrative Medicine Center Inc. Kerry did not return calls to his offices yesterday.

Doctors affiliated with the National Institutes of Mental Health and American Academy of Pediatrics do not endorse the use of chelation therapy to remove heavy metals for autism. Such drugs used in the process can cause liver and kidney damage and other problems.

Cindy Waeltermann, director of the Pittsburgh-based national advocacy group AutismLink, issued a statement to members yesterday warning that caution needs to be used as parents seek help for their autistic children.

"Please, before you try any new therapies, we urge you to research the physician, the methods, and the safety. Some of these therapies are quite dangerous. We're not telling you what to do, we're just urging you to use caution. We all do what we think is best for our children, and sometimes we are desperate. While we've heard stories of chelation success, it is definitely a dangerous process," Waelterman wrote.

She said parents on her group's online forum have referred to Kerry as a known practitioner of chelation therapy.

News of the death soared across the autism community yesterday, alarming proponents and foes of the treatment.

"It's just terrible. My heart is just dying for the family," said J.B. Handley of San Francisco, who helped found Generation Rescue, an international advocacy program for the use of biomedical treatments that include chelation therapy to help autistic children.

He claims his son Jamison, now 3, has dramatically improved since undergoing chelation therapy to remove mercury, the metal most associated with autism because of its presence in some childhood vaccines. He and his wife launched their international group in May.

He said that, in 2000, perhaps a dozen autistic children were treated with chelation therapy. This year, it's more than 10,000.

(Karen Kane can be reached at kkane@post-gazette.com or 724-772-9180.)

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DESPERATE parents seek autism's cure
Providence Journal (subscription) - Providence,RI,USA

A child's death near Pittsburgh heightens the controversy surrounding popular chelation therapy.

01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, August 27, 2005

BY JENNIFER LEVITZ
Journal Staff Writer

When Dr. Julia McMillan, a professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, arrived at work yesterday, she had an e-mail from a colleague with the subject line, "This was bound to happen."

The e-mail said a 5-year-old autistic boy, Abubakar Tariq Nadama, had gone into cardiac arrest and died in suburban Pittsburgh on Tuesday after receiving chelation therapy, a treatment that uses drugs to strip toxic heavy metals from the body.

The Butler County coroner's office said yesterday that tests had not yet concluded what killed the boy, who had been receiving his third treatment.

But his death brings to light the desperation of the growing number of parents seeking chelation, based on the theory -- rejected by the American Academy of Pediatrics -- that autism is caused by a mercury-based preservative formerly used in vaccines. Many are seeking to "detoxify" their children with expensive, unproven therapies such as chelation, in which drugs are administered either orally, topically or intravenously.

The parents say they have no choice but to search for answers -- the mainstream medical community offers no precise reason for autism, nor a cure or specific medical treatment, only behavioral therapies. Autism is a developmental disorder that affects a child's ablity to communicate or interact.

"It's truly devastating for families; it's not surprising they would look for some cure," said McMillan, of Johns Hopkins. "I don't fault those families, except when what they're doing is more dangerous. . . . It's a known dangerous treatment."

CHELATION is considered a valid treatment for exposure to lead paint and certain other acute heavy-metal poisonings. But its effect on autism is mostly anecdotal, shared among parents who gather in support groups -- such as Moms For Options to Treat and Heal Autism and Related Syndromes -- which meets in Providence once a month.

"We think our kids were poisoned," said Sherri Crohan, of Lincoln, the president. "The bottom line is: if you get the mercury out, the kids get better."

Matthew and Kristine Rogan, of Cranston, drive their 5-year-old son to an alternative doctor in Rhinebeck, N.Y., every six weeks for a $700 chelation treatment, which isn't covered by insurance.

Some parents have sought to sue vaccine makers. But Kristine Rogan, a teacher in North Providence, says she just wants to help her son. "I want to fix him, and if that happens, I don't care about anything else," she said.

The couple were off to Rhinebeck yesterday, undeterred by the news of the boy in Pittsburgh. Matthew Rogan, a nurse at Rhode Island Hospital, says the couple have weighed the risks and benefits and believe that chelation is the way to rid their son of the mercury that they suspect damaged him.

"In our circle of friends, everyone is doing it," he said. "You go to an autism conference and start talking about mercury, and people look down on you and think you're crazy. But if you read the books, it's a no-brainer."

He says his son hasn't had side effects and seems to be improving, though it's difficult to tell whether it's the chelation, because the couple is trying numerous alternative treatments, including supplements suggested by the Rhinebeck Health Center & the Center for Progressive Medicine. "He's doing better," Matthew Rogan said of his son. "We're not there yet."

"We have a lot of hope for our son," he said.

THE ROGANS, who have also taken their son to California and Chicago for alternative treatments, say they expect that mercury will eventually come out in their son's urine. So far, it has not. Matthew Rogan said he was told that mercury is the last metal to come out during chelation, and that it will take more treatments.

"He just excreted a bunch of lead," he said. "It was off the charts what came out of his body. We're working on lead right now. We have to keep chipping away at that to get down to mercury."

Barbara Coddington, an assistant at Rhinebeck Health Center, said yesterday that the children taking chelation are typically hooked up to an IV and given a drug called EDTA -- ethylene-diamine-tetra-acetic acid. The clinic is a member of Defeat Autism Now, a national network of alternative doctors started in 1995.

Coddington said autistic children come from all over, "from Iraq, from England, from Pakistan. It's been wonderful to watch how some of the kids didn't speak or interact very well when they started coming here, and they do now."

DR. ROBERT BARATZ, an internist and the president of the National Council against Health Fraud, in Peabody, Mass., said parents are being sold false hope. "It's a group of people preying upon the desperate," he said.

Baratz said that even if one accepts the hypothesis that mercury caused autism, there's no evidence that chelation can help. He said that the way organic mercury poisoning occurs -- it's "not a reversible problem."

"What people have to know when they start this is that it's totally unproven -- disproven -- and dangerous," Baratz said. "It is bogus; there is no evidence it works, and plenty of evidence it doesn't."

Dr. Richard Deth, a professor at the College of Pharmaceutical Studies at Northeastern University, has testified before Congress and believes there is a link between autism and Thimerosal, the mercury preservative widely used in vaccines until a few years ago. Deth says autistic children lack the ability to cope with, or excrete, mercury like other children. "Where did it go? The answer is, probably in the brain," he said.

Deth said chelation would be a logical treatment for acute mercury poisoning, but he questioned whether "chelation could get at mercury in the brain." Another problem, he said, is that chelation drugs can remove metals that have an essential role in the body.

Doug Kertscher, a lawyer in Atlanta, has handled cases of botched chelation therapy and has found that some doctors are better than others.

He said: "I don't think in any way, shape or form that chelation cures autism." But he said that the alternative doctors who are part of Defeat Autism Now do seem to follow strict guidelines for administering chelation.

Last year, Kertscher was part of a team of lawyers that settled multiple lawsuits against a Georgia doctor who performed chelation on autistic children. The Edelson Center for Environmental and Preventative Medicine, a Georgia clinic, had been kicked out of the Defeat Autism Now network and is now closed, he said. Lawsuits alleged that children had been hurt by Edelson's treatments, which "included not just chelation but this really awful sauna therapy," Kertscher said. He said a witness testified that children would be held down in the sauna. "They would be screaming to get out and kicking."

"The parents are very vulnerable. . . . Wouldn't you give up all your retirement [money] if this guy really convinced you and was a great salesman and showed you all kinds of charts?" Kertscher said. "You'd sell your cars and triple-mortgage your house to try to cure your child, and that's what happened, time and time again."

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Boy's death prompts questions about chelation

By Jennifer Bails
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, August 26, 2005

Marla Green said her 6-year-old autistic son, John, seems to benefit tremendously from daily treatments to remove heavy metals built up in his body.

Every day, the Lower Burrell mother administers a "natural" oral spray to her son, which she says binds the mercury, lead and other metals in his system, neutralizes them and allows them to be excreted -- a controversial therapy called chelation (pronounced key-LAY-shun).

"I'd consider it a safe process," said Green, who helps to run an education and advocacy organization called FightingAutism based in Pine. "We're going slow, but steady, to try to help his body do what it can't do by itself. I don't think we're doing any damage to our son. John has only improved."

But the death of a 5-year-old autistic Monroeville boy earlier this week while undergoing a more aggressive form of chelation therapy has raised new questions about the safety of this type of treatment.

Pennsylvania state police in Butler County said Thursday they are investigating the death of Abubakar "Tariq" Nadama. The child's heart stopped beating Tuesday in the Portersville office of Dr. Roy Eugene Kerry, of the Advanced Integrative Medicine Center, as he received a chelating agent called ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid intravenously.

No information has been found to indicate criminal activity in connection with the youngster's death, state police said yesterday.

Nadama died after receiving his third treatment of chelation therapy for autism, a neurological disorder characterized by a range of behavioral, communication, social and learning disabilities varying widely in severity.

The incidence of autism is reaching epidemic proportions in America. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one of every 166 children is born with the disease.

Neighbors said the boy's funeral was being held yesterday afternoon. No one answered the door of the family's Colgate Drive home.

Detailed autopsy results probably won't be available for at least a month to establish whether there was a link between the child's death and the chelation therapy, according to the Butler County Coroner's Office.

Chelation therapy was developed by the United States Navy in the 1950s as a way to remove lead and other toxic metals from the bodies of military personnel.

Its use in treating autism stems from the idea -- dismissed by medical orthodoxy and federal health authorities -- that the disorder is actually mercury poisoning in a different guise, caused by a preservative added to childhood vaccines rather than a hereditary neurological imbalance. Some experts also blame exposure to heavy metal pollution in the environment for causing autism.

"It's a logical approach that if the metals are creating some of the problem, you could remove them and see improvements," said Dr. Ralph Miranda, a general practitioner in Greensburg whose Wholistic Health Center specializes in blending traditional and alternative medicines.

Miranda is the former president of the American College for Advancement in Medicine, a California-based nonprofit group that sets clinical and education standards for chelation and other practices.

"When done appropriately, chelation therapy can be extremely safe and effective," Miranda said. "But it does take some training. You can't just fall out of bed and say, 'I'm going to chelate.'"

Critics of chelation therapy say no rigorous scientific studies have been mounted to prove its safety or effectiveness as a treatment for autism.

Consequently, doctors affiliated with the National Institutes of Mental Health and American Academy of Pediatrics recommend it be avoided by autistic patients until valid research studies are performed.

The drug used to treat Nadama, abbreviated as EDTA, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in treating acute heavy-metal poisoning only.

It is not illegal for a physician to prescribe chelation therapy to autistic children, Miranda said.

Kerry, who also has an office in Greenville, Mercer County, is a member of the Mercer County Medical Society and the American Medical Association, according to Chuck Moran, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Medical Society.

An electronic background check revealed he is affiliated with UPMC-Horizon, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh Medical School 41 years ago and is certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology, an ear, nose and throat specialty.

Brian McDonald, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of State, said Kerry's license as a medical physician and surgeon is in good standing and no disciplinary actions have been taken against him.

Kerry did not return phone messages left yesterday at either of his offices or his home.

Green said at least 100 members of the FightingAutism support group -- of which Nadama's mother, Marwa, is a member -- rely on chelation therapy and other "biomedical treatments," such as detoxifying vitamin supplements and restricted diets, to help their autistic children rather than psychotropic medications.

To monitor John's chelation treatments in the past year, Green visits an out-of-state doctor who comes to the Pittsburgh area every eight weeks and sees several other patients from the FightingAutism group, too.

She will continue to administer this therapy to her son in the wake of Nadama's death.

"People are devastated that this happened. He was a beautiful boy," she said. "My heart is breaking for the family, but we're not going to stop. We're going to keep going.

"It all comes down to research. If they would spend more money on research and figure out what causes this disease, then parents wouldn't be faced with all of these difficult choices."

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Official response from Dr. Garry Gordon, regarding the recent death of a 5 Y.O. autistic boy, while undergoing IV EDTA chelation. Dr. Gordon is considered one of the most knowledgeable sources on EDTA chelation.

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Dear Health Care Professionals:

You may soon read and hear the kind of hysteria and negative press that I expected to see, but it will get FAR WORSE before it gets better. As of this moment, I can only assume that there must have been a substantial deviation from the standard procedures that I, and all of you, have established for the safe administration of Calcium EDTA.

As incredible as it may seem to those of you belonging to this discussion group, the possibility exists that the child was treated with Disodium EDTA administered by IV Push.

I am forced to consider this unfortunate explanation unless there was some major undiagnosed illness in the child that no one suspected, such as a major heart defect or perhaps an aneurism that ruptured at the exact time the patient was receiving the IV Push of Calcium EDTA.

However, the autopsy has been completed and the results were inconclusive so that they have ordered additional tests, which may take up to 5 months to complete.

This means that there is no obvious explanation for the death of this child. My fear is that if someone who is not knowledgeable in chelation and has not learned that this is complex chemistry assumes, for example, that all that they have to do to provide magnesium EDTA or Calcium EDTA is just add either magnesium or calcium to a syringe containing Disodium EDTA.

We could have a serious problem because Disodium EDTA has a black box warning about rapid administration to children and simply adding something like Calcium or Magnesium does not fully convert Disodium EDTA to Calcium EDTA. Then there is also a problem with discomfort, if you tried to give yourself an IV push of diluted Disodium EDTA the pain could be extreme so you might wind up increasing the dose of Lidocaine and again we can get into problems with the heart if too much of a "caine" if given intravenously.

So let's look at the big picture, there are NO DEATHS occurring when EDTA, either calcium or Disodium are PROPERLY administered. Now the media will try to make chelation out to be fraudulent and the tests that we do to measure lead etc as being meaningless. Amazingly they will bring out Quack buster Barrett who with a little more effort we may be able to one day put behind bars for his lies and incompetence.

Thus I have to conclude some error in rate of administration, dosage, method of preparation probably occurred; in fact, I now believe this is most likely rather than administering the correct drug, Calcium EDTA, intravenously, which even in children is safe and effective.

Doctors who have been providing this treatment to children can hardly stop talking about the remarkable successes they have been witnessing with children responding far more rapidly than we could ever do with just the oral Calcium EDTA that I have been advocating for so long.

We know that worldwide sales of all forms of EDTA have been steadily increasing and that based on logical calculations it appears that well over 10 million patients have been safely treated with either Calcium or Disodium EDTA over the past 32+ years without a single documented fatality, as long as the established protocols were followed. All the evidence to date that EDTA is perhaps the safest therapy offered in medicine, outside of placebos.

To my knowledge, EDTA has been safely administered for nearly 50 years with the only deaths occurring in the beginning, with terminal cancer patients suffering uncontrolled hypercalcemia where inappropriate doses of Disodium EDTA were administered by rapid infusion to patients with known compromised renal status.

With the extensive proof now existing that everyone today has nearly 1000 times too much lead in their bones and Harvard publishing that this bone lead will compromise vision there can be no argument that we all have some heavy metal toxicity. Then once we conclude that government cannot stop the mercury, cadmium, lead etc from going in the air, and thus into everyone anywhere on earth, then it becomes a matter of personal choice, live with these heavy metals or remove them.

Oral chelation is clearly necessary since bone lead will take 10 years to turn over for the average adult, but some of us want results NOW. Nothing is as effective as the 147 fold increase in lead excretion over base line that IV Calcium EDTA, PROPERLY FORMULATED, was documented to induce by Doctors Data with the help of Dr Whitaker's staff.

Thus I must extend my sympathy to the family of the deceased 5-year-old boy from Nigeria whose brave mother came to the Pittsburg area from the United Kingdom to seek treatment for her autistic child. She was seeing clear improvements in her son. This was the third infusion he had received. He apparently had a cardiac arrest and was unable to be resuscitated immediately following this third infusion of what I fear was not Calcium EDTA, which is the ONLY form of EDTA that I have advocated for the exciting rapid infusion technique.

I hope those who have experience with it in their practice are NOT GOING TO STOP USING it that you have the "rest of the story", as best as we can establish it at this time. Please understand that the involved doctors cannot be expected to admit anything on advice of their attorneys. I have only checked to see if they have ever purchased Calcium EDTA and found the answer was ?no??. leading me to compose this email in an attempt to diminish the harm that the media will do to everyone who otherwise could have been receiving oral and or IV chelation and will now be afraid.

This email may be copied and handed to your patients in an effort to meet the need for a fully informed consent.

Garry F. Gordon MD, DO, MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
http://www.gordonresearch.com

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Chelation Therapy and Autism

Adelle Jameson Tilton,Your Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorders.

A New Hope for Autism?

Chelation therapy was first developed by the United States Navy as a way of removing toxic metals from the bodies of military personnel exposed to high concentrations of lead during the 1940's. Since that time, it has been used in the treatment of people exposed to lead paint particles and other environmental exposures, and is a recommended treatment by the American Academy of Family Practice and the American Academy of Pediatrics for this purpose. Now, however its use is being expanded to the treatment of other medical conditions such as autism.

The chemical process that takes place in chelation is complicated, but put in simple terms, the heavy metals, such as mercury, bind to the chelating agent and then are eliminated from the body. In theory, once they are removed, their toxic effects are eliminated and the individual begins to show improvement in the areas which were exposed to these metals. There are several products which are in use as chelators and are prescribed for use by some physicians.

One of the best and safest chelators is DMSA. While not approved by the FDA for use in autism, it is approved for removal of lead from children who have been diagnosed with lead poisoning. Due to the nature of DMSA, however, it does not simply bind to lead, but to any heavy metal, and therefore will bind to mercury, such as has accumulated due to vaccinations containing thimerosal. It has been tested in children and found to be safe and effective when properly used.

Another common chelator is DMPS. This substance,however, has never been tested in children and has not been found to be safe and effective. It also is very expensive and can only be purchased through a compounding pharmacist. For these reasons, it is usually not covered by health insurance policies. Because of these factors, it is not recommended for use with children and is a poor alternative to DMSA according to many specialists.

Another product in use is lipoic acid. This is an excellent chelator, since it is lipid soluble, and is therefore able to cross cell membranes better than the water soluble product DMSA. In theory, this makes it more effective, since most of the mercury is stored within the cells and is harder to reach and create bonds with.

There are two steps to chelation therapy that are essential if it is to work. First, the loosely-bound body mercury must be eliminated. This can be done with DMSA. It is given in a one week on, one off pattern with dosages being administered every four hours. Once the urine mercury levels have stabilized, the next step is chelating the mercury that is tightly bound within the cells. This is done using lipoic acid.

It is important to provide nutritional support designed to counteract mercury's known effects and to use monitoring tests to check on blood counts, kidney and liver function, and mineral levels, and to gauge how much mercury is being eliminated from the body. These tests must be done under supervision of a physician, and as in any medical treatment should be closely supervised and the recommendations of the physician should be followed by the patient.

For more information on physicians who practice Chelation Therapy, contact the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM). Their database includes over 600 physicians and clinics that are certified in this treatment method. Part 2 of this article will discuss the viewpoint of the traditional medical community toward this method of treatment.

The Opposing View of Chelation and Autism

While much publicity has been given to chelation therapy within the autism community, the overwhelming opinion of the traditional medical community is that it is an unproven therapy that should be avoided. According to Saul Green, PhD, the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM), the primary proponents of chelation, and its Board Certification program are not recognized by the scientific community.

Green also points out that the typical treatment program costs between $75 and $125 per treatment, takes between 20 and 100 treatments to show results, and is not covered by insurance. Other physicians point out that some chelation therapists attempt to secure insurance coverage by misrepresenting the patient's treatment to the insurance companies, therefore practicing insurance fraud rather than medicine.

It is interesting that none of the material discussed above is related to chelation therapy in the treatment of autism or other developmental disorders. It relates to claims that chelation is an effective treatment for heart disease. The implication, however is that if it is a fraudulent treatment for heart disease, then all treatments using this procedure are suspect and should be avoided.

It is obvious that more research needs to be done into this treatment. In November 2000, Cure Autism Now (CAN), a leading autism research organization called for research proposals to finally investigate the effectiveness of chelation therapy in autism treatment. Since there has been no research studies done to validate the claims of those who tout chelation in the treatment of autism, this treatment should be considered unproven and the safety and effectiveness of it are still undetermined.

This viewpoint is supported by the Autism Biomedical Information Network, which lists chelation as an unproven treatment. They point out that no reliable research studies have been made on many treatments being offered as alternatives to traditional autism treatments, and that most of the information available on their effectiveness is anecdotal rather than based on valid scientific research techniques.

While it is not illegal for a physician to prescribe chelation therapy for the treatment of autism, without valid research studies, any treatment that has not been properly researched should be undertaken with a degree of skepticism. Until chelation is approved for use for people with autism and until valid research is conducted, the traditional medical community recommends that it be avoided.

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'Mercury Reverses Autism'

150 Parents of Autistic Children Launch Organization, Ad

Campaign with Stunning Message: Removing Mercury Reverses Autism in KidsSAN FRANCISCO, May 24 /U.S. Newswire/

More than 150 parents of autistic children launched a new nonprofit organization, Generation Rescue, today with a full-page advertisement in USA Today bearing a stunning message: autism is preventable and reversible. Generation Rescue parents are successfully treating their children biomedically and removing mercury from their bodies through a safe and proven detoxification treatment known as chelation therapy.

The organization's Web site, http://www.GenerationRescue.org provides treatment information and connects parents with more than 150 "Rescue Angels," parents who are successfully treating their own autistic children using a variety of biomedical interventions individualized for each child. Also announced was the availability of 1,000 parents around the country to talk to media about the reversal of autism in their children.

"Our message for parents is very simple: autism is reversible," said J.B. Handley, one of the organization's founding parents and father of a son diagnosed with autism. "I see every day with my own eyes how my son Jamie is recovering from what was previously perceived as an untreatable disorder. With the removal of mercury, Jamie's autistic symptoms go away. He got a second chance at life, and we want to let other parents who are struggling out there know it's possible to get their children back."

Charlie Hoover's 7-year-old son Lenny of Royal Palm, Florida, suffered the classic symptoms of autism - spinning in circles, repetitive behaviors and tantrums. "After Lenny's diagnosis, the more I read, the more the knot in my stomach tightened," said Hoover. "It was as if our son had died."

But after chelation therapy rid Lenny's body of mercury, his symptoms disappeared. Lenny, who loves to play T-ball, is now enrolled in regular kindergarten. "If your child got lead poisoning from eating paint chips, you would certainly do something about that," Hoover said. "What's the difference between mercury and lead?"

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that more than 1 in 166 children are diagnosed with autism, up from 1 in 2,500 since the 1970s. According to the CDC, autism is a life-long disorder that is not treatable.

"For years we have heard the experts say that autism is a lifelong disability. This simply is not true anymore, thanks to effective biomedical treatments that can restore many, if not a majority, of autistic children to full recovery," said Bernard Rimland, Ph.D., Director of the Autism Research Institute and co- founder of Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!), a network of doctors throughout the country who treat autistic patients.

"Thousands of formerly autistic patients have shed their autistic symptoms. They now relate normally to their families and to other children. The hand-flapping is gone. The tantrums are gone. Most of these children who used to be lost in their own worlds are now indistinguishable from other children."

The Autism Research Institute has nearly 1,000 parents nationwide who are available for media interviews about their successful biomedical treatment of their autistic children with DAN! doctors (contact media@AutismResearchInstitute.com).

"Our DAN! doctors determine what each individual child needs, then use safe biomedical interventions to heal that child. Many DAN! Doctors report excellent results from using chelation to rid the body of mercury and other toxic metals," said Dr. Rimland.

Recent studies and investigations have indicated that mercury may be behind the autism epidemic. Mercury, the second most toxic element after plutonium, is estimated to be 500 to 1,000 times more toxic than lead. The heavy metal burrows deep into the cells of the brain and other organs and can lead to serious central nervous system damage and crippling neurological disorders. Scientific evidence pointing to mercury poisoning as the cause behind rising autism rates has led many medical doctors to remove the toxin from the bodies of autistic children through chelation.

"The symptoms of early infant mercury poisoning and autism are virtually identical," said Dr. Boyd Haley, chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky.

"Furthermore, research indicates that autistic children genetically have a harder time excreting mercury from their bodies. This is why chelation has become such a powerful key for unlocking and undoing the disorders associated with autism."

Chelation has been used for decades to detoxify people of dangerous levels of heavy metals, due to industrial accidents or other causes. According to the CDC, 60,000 Americans underwent some form of chelation last year, and the therapy is currently under clinical trial with heart disease patients. In autism treatments, chelating "agents" may be administered orally or transdermally (through the skin). Once in the bloodstream, the chelating agent binds to heavy metals and helps remove them from the body.

"Chelation is one of the most effective ways to rid autistic children of the mercury poisoning which is at the root of their disorder," said Lynne Mielke, M.D., a Pleasanton, California physician, who is part of the DAN! network. "The medical establishment already endorses chelation for acute metal toxicity disorders, and the number of doctors who realize chelation's benefits for the chronic metal toxicity found in autism is rapidly growing."

Parents are also eager to help fellow parents navigate the road to treatment for their autistic children. The Generation Rescue Web site, http://www.GenerationRescue.org, offers contacts for more than 150 volunteer "Rescue Angels," who Handley calls the "heart and soul" of Generation Rescue. "We're parents who want to help other parents caught in the nightmare of autism find hope and recovery for their kids," said Handley, who added that the organization is completely founded, funded and run by parents. "Too often parents believe the outdated myth that autism is not treatable or reversible. We're here to tell them otherwise."

Biomedical treatments for autism require the support of a specialized healthcare provider who can tailor treatment to the individual needs of a child. While chelation therapy shows great promise, there are many biomedical treatments being used to heal autistic children.

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EVIDENCE OF HARM
DAVID KIRBY
Brooklyn, New York

David Kirby has been a professional journalist for over 15 years, and has written for The New York Times for the past eight years. Kirby was a contracted writer with the weekly City Section at The Times, where he covered public health, local politics, art and culture, film and theater, architecture, zoning and land use, among many other subjects. Currently, Kirby has contributed to The Magazine, Arts & Leisure, Personal Health, Men’s Health, Science Times, Escapes, Travel, Weekend and other sections of the paper. Kirby has also written for a number of national magazines, including Glamour, Redbook, Marie Claire, Mademoiselle, Self, Art News, and others. In addition, Kirby was a foreign correspondent in Mexico and Central America from 1986-1990, where he covered the wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, and covered politics, corruption and natural disasters in Mexico. From Latin America, he reported for UPI, the San Francisco Examiner, Newsday, The Arizona Republic, Houston Chronicle and the NBC Radio Network.

Kirby has also worked in politics, medical research and public relations. He worked for New York City Council President Carol Bellamy as a special assistant for healthcare, cultural affairs and civil rights, followed by employment as chief scheduler to Manhattan Borough President David N. Dinkins. He also was a senior staff adviser to Dinkins’ successful 1989 run for Mayor of New York City. From 1990-1993, Kirby was Director of Public Information at the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), where he acted as press spokesman for Chairwoman Elizabeth Taylor, and witnessed first-hand the inner workings of Congress, the White House and powerful Federal agencies like the FDA, CDC and NIH. Kirby also ran his own public relations agency in New York for four years, from 1993 through 1996, with clients that included the National Cancer Institute, AmFAR, ABC, BBC, Absolut Vodka, Dean Witter Discover & Co., and others.

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Practitioners who Offer Heavy Metal Detoxification Services Recommended by Dr. Amy Holmes

Index of DAN! Practitioners (by State) who Offer Mercury Detoxification and/or Other Heavy Metal Detoxification Services

Since its establishment in 1967, the Autism Research Institute has had as a major priority the tracking of promising treatments for autism. To accelerate the development and dissemination of information that will be helpful to many families of autistic children, the Autism Research Institute convened the first Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!) conference in Dallas in January, 1995. Follow-up DAN! conferences have been held each Spring and Fall to further advance the treatment of autism. The conferences have produced a base of physicians who wish to employ rational, scientifically sound approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of autism, and who regard psychoactive drugs as their last choice, not their first.

Previously, some parents had reported to the Autism Research Institute that certain DAN!-listed practitioners they contacted were in fact not truly sympathetic to the DAN! approach, despite their having requested to be on ARI's DAN! referral list. In response to this problem, in July 2002 ARI requested all those on the DAN! practitioners list to sign a statement asserting that they subscribe to the DAN! philosophy, and conduct their practice in accordance with the DAN! philosophy. (Click here to read the DAN! philosophy statement.) They were also asked to indicate which DAN!-related interventions they offer.

The following is a list of physicians and other health practitioners who utilize the DAN Protocol in their practices and have indicated that they specifically offer intervention for mercury and other heavy metal detoxification. While it is a current as possible, there may be changes and additions that have not been included. If you have information on other physicians who use this protocol or who no longer are in practice, please email the Webmaster of this site. We will update this list, as a service to you, on a regular basis. This list is as accurate as possible, however no claim is made that it is completely accurate. To find out for sure if a physician or practitioner on this list is using the DAN Protocol, contact their office for information. Also, note that some health care practitioners listed below are not physicians, and therefore are not able to provide many of the DAN! diagnostic and treatment options. However, many of these practitioners do provide extremely helpful treatments and advice, and may be able to suggest helpful local physicians who are not yet on the DAN! list.

· Alaska

Joan Priestley, M.D.
3705 Arctic, #1321
Anchorage, AK 99503
Adam Grove, N.D.
3330 Eagle Street
Anchorage, AK 99503
tel: 907-561-2330
fax: 907-561-1280

· Arizona

Cheryl Harter, M.D., M.D.(H.)
80 Raintree Road
Sedona, AZ 86351
tel: 928-284-9777
Paul S. Charnetsky, M.D.
195 La Mar Boulevard, Suite B
Goodyear, AZ 85338
tel: 623-932-2200
fax: 623-932-2242
Jeanette Gallagher, N.M.D.
6980 East Sahuaro Drive, #1046
Scottsdale, AZ 85254
tel: 602-881-5816
fax: 480-998-1399
Alan K. Ketover, M.D., M.D.H.
The Valley Clinic
10595 N. Tatum Boulevard, Suite E-146
Paradise Valley, AZ 85253
tel: 602-381-0800
fax: 602-381-0054
Abram Ber, M.D.
5011 N. Granite Reef Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85250
tel: 480-941-2141
fax: 480-941-4114

· Arkansas

Alice R. Laule, M.D.
P.O. Box 1670
Harrison, AR 72602
tel: 870-741-9596
fax: 870-741-9687

· California

Terrance Chang, M.D.
6910 Douglas Boulevard, Suite F
Roseville, CA 95746
tel: 916-791-0797
Charles F. Milazzo, M.D.
404 Sunrise Avenue, Suite C
Roseville, CA 95661-4183
tel: 916-782-3786
fax: 916-773-6251
Erin C. King, C.Ph.T.
1694 Myrtle Avenue
Eureka, CA 95501
tel: 707-443-4885
fax: 707-443-6527
Robert Rowen, M.D.
95 Montgomery Drive, Suite 220
Santa Rosa, CA 95472
tel: 907-571-7560
fax: 907-571-8929
Kathy Kaufmann, R.D., C.C.N.
2505 Samaritan Drive, Suite 104
San Jose, CA 95124
tel: 408-358-5540
fax: 408-358-5269
Julie Griffith, M.D., M.S., C.M.T.
1375 Eliseo Drive, Suite G
Greenbrae, CA 94904
tel: 415-925-1616
fax: 415-925-1416
John Toth, D.O.
2299 Bacon Street, #10
Concord, CA 94520
tel: 925-687-9447
fax: 925-687-9483
Julie Matthews, Certified Nutrition Consultant
1274 Waller Street, #6
San Francisco, CA 94117
tel: 415-437-6807
Robert Cathcart, M.D.
127 Second Street, #4
Los Altos, CA 94022
tel: 650-949-2822
fax: 650-949-5083
Raj Patel, M.D.
5050 El Camino Real, Suite 110
Los Altos, CA 94022
tel: 650-964-6700
fax: 650-964-3495
Barbara Lundeen, Ph.D.
2733 East Garland Avenue
Fresno, CA 93726
tel: 559-222-2555
fax: 559-222-7104
Jack Warner, M.D., F.A.A.P.
1023 East Chapman Avenue
Fullerton, CA 92831
tel: 714-411-2600
fax: 714-441-2522
Robert Sears, M.D.
655 Camino DeLos Mares, #117
San Clemente, CA 92673
tel: 949-493-5437
fax: 949-493-0535
Dorothy V. Calabrese, M.D.
24953 Paseo de Valencia, Suite 4A
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
tel: 949-454-0509
fax: 949-454-2033
Ronald Wempen, M.D.
14795 Jeffrey Road, Suite 101
Irvine, CA 92618
tel: 949-551-8751
fax: 949-551-1272
Priscilla Slagle, M.D.
946 Avenida Palos Verdes
Palm Springs, CA 92262
tel: 760-323-4259
fax: 760-322-7608
Tracy Tranchitella, N.D.
Stillpoint Integrative Medical Associates
11770 Bernardo Plaza Court, Suite 212
San Diego, CA 92128
tel: 858-385-8980
Kurt Norman Woeller, D.O.
Stillpoint Integrative Medical Associates
11770 Bernardo Plaza Court, Suite 212
San Diego, CA 92128
tel: 858-385-8980
fax: 858-385-9440
Shawn K. Centers, D.O., F.A.C.O.P., M.H.
Osteopathic Center for Children
4135 54th Place
San Diego, CA 92108
tel: 619-583-7611
fax: 619-583-0296
David Getoff, N.D., C.C.N., C.N.C.
19096 Deerhorn Valley Road
Jamul, CA 91935
tel: 619-468-6846
Alan Schwartz, M.D.
Holistic Resource Center
29020 Agoura Road, A8
Agorua Hills, CA 91301
tel: 818-597-0966
fax: 818-597-8668
Adrienne Grant, D.O.
720 North Tustin Avenue, #206
Santa Ana, CA 90230
tel: 714-565-1032
fax: 714-565-1033
Karima Hirani, M.D., M.P.H.
12732 West Washington Boulevard, #B
Los Angeles, CA 90066
tel: 310-577-0753
fax: 310-577-0724

· Colorado

Joe Wezensky, M.D.
Kokopelli Health & Wellness, PC
2650 North Avenue, Suite 101
Grand Junction, CO 81501
tel: 970-263-4660
fax: 970-248-9519
John Kucera, M.D.
1304 North Academy Boulevard, #209
Colorado Springs, CO 80909
tel: 719-596-1118
fax: 719-573-9774
Mary Frazel, N.D.
104 East Saint Vrain, Suite 10
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
tel: 719-635-2050
fax: 719-635-2625
Glen Nagel, N.D.
104 East Saint Vrain, Suite 10
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
tel: 719-635-2050
Terry Grossman, M.D.
Frontier Medical Institute
2801 Youngfield Street, #117
Golden, CO 80401
tel: 303-233-4247
fax: 303-233-4249

· Connecticut

Renee Simon, M.S., C.N.S.
470 Main Street, Suite 301
Ridgefield, CT 06877
tel: 203-438-1709
fax: 203-438-2275
Victoria Zupa, N.D.
397 Post Road
Darien, CT 06820
tel: 203-656-4300
fax: 203-656-1444
James Sensenig, N.D.
2558 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518
tel: 203-230-2200
fax: 203-230-1454
Enrico Liva N.D.
87 O'Rourke Drive
Middletown, CT 06457
tel: 860-347-8600
fax: 860-347-8434

· Delaware

M.C. Cossaboon, Ph.D., I.C.M.
Psychophysics Research Int. (PRI)
15 Forest Gate Lane, Suite 4
Wilmington, DE 19810
tel: 302-529-9333
fax: 302-475-9797

· District of Columbia

George Mitchell, M.D. & Julie Leonard, P.A.C.
2639 Connecticut Avenue NW, #C-100
Washington, DC 20008
tel: 202-265-4111

· Florida

Albert Robbins, D.O.
400 South Dixie Hwy
Boca Raton, FL 33432
tel: 561-395-3282
fax: 561-395-3304
Gary S. Snyder, D.C., D.N.B.H.E.
Clinical Nutrition Center
1400 E. Oakland Park Boulevard
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33334
tel: 954-486-4000
fax: 954-564-5598
David Berger, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Vitality Health & Wellness
2999 NE 191st Street, #905
Aventura, FL 33180
tel: 305-466-1100
fax: 305-466-1160
Andrew Levinson, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Vitality Health & Wellness
2999 N.E. 191 Street, #905
Miami, FL 33180
tel: 305-466-1100
fax: 305-466-1160
David Sontag, Licensed Nutritionist, Acupuncture Physician
17027 West Dixie Hwy, #101
North Miami, FL 33160
tel: 305-891-3449
fax: 305-895-1877
Eric N. Rydland M.D., F.A.A.P.
2121 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Suite 250
Coral Gables, FL 33134
tel: 305-448-1752
fax: 305-447-1263
William Hoffman, D.C., D.A.C.B.N., C.C.N.
950 North Courtenay Parkway, Suite 1
Merritt Island, FL 32953
tel: 321-453-2844
fax: 321-452-6452
Jerrold J. Kartzinel, M.D.
International Autism Research Center
1663 Georgia Street NE, Suite 700
Palm Bay, FL 32907
tel: 321-953-0278
fax: 321-953-3983
Jeff Bradstreet, M.D., F.A.A.F.P.
International Autism Research Center
1663 Georgia Street NE, Suite 700
Palm Bay, FL 32907
tel: 321-953-0278
fax: 321-953-3983
Roy B. Kupsinel, M.D.
1325 Shangri-La Lane
PO Box 620550
Oviedo, FL 32765
tel: 407-365-6681
fax: 407-365-1834
Stephen E. Grable, M.D.
Complementary Care Center
7563 Philips Highway
Suite 206, Bldg. 100
Jacksonville, FL 32256
tel: 904-296-9355
fax: 904-296-1472

· Georgia

Karyl Bental, D.O.
1227 Augusta West Parkway, Suite 14
Augusta, GA 30909
tel: 706-627-1301
John Allen, M.D.
1512 Anthony Road, Suite C
Augusta, GA 30904
tel: 706-738-9110
fax: 706-738-9097
Janine Romaner, N.D.
75 Wade Green Business Center
1301 Shiloh Road, Suite 730
Kennesaw, GA 30144
tel: 770-640-6690
Linda Nathanson-Lippitt, M.D.
2400 Herodian Way, Suite 150
Smyrna, GA 30080
tel: 770-850-8588
fax: 770-850-8789
Donna Gates, M.Ed.
544 Medlock Road, #210
Decatur, GA 30030
tel: 866-423-3438

· Illinois

Anjum Usman, M.D.
HRI - Pfeiffer Treatment Center
1804 Centre Point Circle, Suite 102
Naperville, IL 60563
tel: 630-505-0300
fax: 630-505-1907
Ross Hauser, M.D.
Caring Medical & Rehabilitation Serivces
715 Lake Street, Suite 600
Oak Park, IL 60301
tel: 708-848-7789
fax: 708-848-7763
Joseph M. Mercola, D.O.
1443 West Schaumburg Road
Schaumburg, IL 60194
tel: 847-985-1777
fax: 847-985-0693
Richard Hrdlicka, M.D.
302 Randall Road, #206
Geneva, IL 60134
tel: 630-232-1900
fax: 630-232-1937
John Hicks, M.D.
15 Commerce Drive, Suite 109
Grayslake, IL 60030
tel: 847-548-3441

· Kansas

Hugh Riordan, M.D.
3100 N. Hillside Avenue
Wichita, KS 67219
tel: 316-682-3100
fax: 316-682-5054
Jeremy Baptist, M.D., Ph.D.
4601 W. 109th Street, Suite 314
Overland Park, KS 66211
tel: 913-469-4043
fax: 913-469-6580

· Kentucky

Tracy Barnes, D.C.
1101 Herr Lane
Louisville, KY 40222
tel: 502-339-6550
fax: 502-339-6501
Judy Minogue, R.Ph.
4014 Dutchmans Lane
Louisville, KY 40207
tel: 502-894-4464
fax: 502-893-4460

· Maryland

Laura R. Chaffiotte, D.C., C.C.N., D.A.C.B.A.
812 Tollhouse Avenue
Frederick, MD 21701
tel: 301-694-7774
fax: 301-694-9396
Kelly Dorfman, M.S.
10828 Tuckahoe Way
N. Potomac, MD 20878
tel: 301-340-2239
fax: 301-340-6499
Joyce Benjamin, R.N., P.A.-C.
7507 Old Chapel Drive
Bowie, MD 20715
tel: 301-805-8399
fax: 301-805-9417

· Massachusetts

Gerard DiFiore, N.D.
Brookline, MA 02446
Melrose, MA 02176
tel: 617-852-7887 (Brookline) tel: 781-643-4066 (Melrose)
Jeanne Hubbuch, M.D.
288 Walnut Street, Suite 420
Newton, MA 02460
tel: 617-965-7770
fax: 617-965-7378
Peggy Chapman, R.N., C.S.
62 Derby Street, #11
Hingham, MA 02043
tel: 781-740-8300
fax: 781-740-8242
Joseph Py, D.O.
38 Market Street
Amesbury, MA 01913
tel: 978-388-2782
fax: 978-388-4340
Carol Englender, M.D.
160 Speen Street, Suite 203
Framingham, MA 01701
tel: 508-875-0875
fax: 508-875-0005
Barry Elson, M.D.
Northampton Wellness Associates & The Pain Relief Center
Maplewood Shops
2 Maple Avenue, Suite 52
Northampton, MA 01060
tel: 413-584-7787
fax: 413-584-7778
Andrea L. Vianna, M.D.
Pediatric Holistic Center
Kids Towards Wholeness
8 River Drive
Hadley, MA 01035
tel: 413-549-4390

· Michigan

Robert DeJonge, D.O.
2251 East Paris Avenue
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
tel: 616-956-6090
fax: 616-956-6099
Mark Leventer, M.D.
P.O. Box 246
12337 East Michigan
Grass Lake, MI 49240
tel: 517-522-8403
fax: 517-522-4275
Angela Brockman, R.N.
A.L.A.R.M.
685 Island Drive
Grass Lake, MI 49240
tel: 517-522-6767
Eric Born, D.O.
2350 East G Avenue
Parchment, MI 49004
tel: 616-344-6183
fax: 616-349-3046
Thomas Kabisch, D.O.
2330 East Stadium, #3
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
tel: 734-971-5483
fax: 734-971-7585

· Minnesota

Richard Mayfield, D.C., C.C.N.
7901 Xerxes Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55431
tel: 952-885-0822
fax: 952-885-9180
Kevin Wand, D.O.
Midwest Wellness Center
10564 France Avenue South
Bloomington, MN 55431
tel: 952-942-9303
fax: 952-881-6871
Mary Nash, D.C., C.C.N. & Paul Nash, D.C., N.D.
17 10th Avenue South
Hopkins, MN 55364
tel: 952-541-5669
fax: 952-927-0178

· Mississippi

Lauren Underwood, Ph.D.
Developmental Delay Consultant, Inc.
1328 Enos Street
Diamondhead, MS 39525
tel: 228-255-1238
fax: 228-255-1238

· Missouri

James Smith, D.C.
211 South Hwy 169
Box 228
Gower, MO 64454
tel: 816-424-3858
fax: 816-424-3878
Tipu Sultan, M.D.
11585 West Florissant Avenue
Florissant, MO 63033
tel: 314-921-5600
fax: 314-921-8273

· Nebraska

James F. Murphy, Jr., D.O.
8031 West Center Road, Suite 221
Omaha, NE 68124
tel: 402-343-7963
fax: 402-343-1330

· New Jersey

Richard B. Menashe, P.O.
15 South Main Street
Edison, NJ 08840
tel: 732-906-8866
fax: 732-906-0424
James Neubrander, M.D., F.A.A.E.M.
15 S. Main Street, Suite 6
Edison, NJ 08837
tel: 732-634-3666
fax: 732-634-8008
Stuart H. Freedenfeld, M.D.
56 So. Main Street
Stockton, NJ 08559
tel: 609-397-8585
fax: 609-397-9335
Roberta Foss-Morgan, M.D.
30 N. Haddon Avenue
Haddonfield, NJ 08033
tel: 856-216-9001
fax: 856-616-9837
Scott R. Greenberg
1907 Greentree Road
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
tel: 856-424-8222
fax: 856-424-2599
Allan Magaziner, D.O.
1907 Greentree Road
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
tel: 856-424-8222
fax: 856-424-2599
Emar Vogelaar, M.D.
European Lab of Nutrients, Vitamin Diagnostics Inc.
Route 35 and Industrial Drive
Cliffwood Beach, NJ 07735
tel: 1-732-583-7773
fax: 1-732-583-7774

· New York

Paul Cutler, M.D.
1081 Long Pond Road
Rochester, NY 14626
tel: 585-720-1980
Paul Cutler, M.D.
652 Elmwood Avenue
Niagara Falls, NY 14301
tel: 716-284-5159
fax: 716-284-5159
Marvin Boris, M.D.
Allergy and Immunology
77 Froelich Farm Boulevard
Woddbury, NY 11797
tel: 516-921-3456
fax: 516-364-1844
Allan Goldblatt, P.A.-C.
77 Froehlich Farm Boulevard.
Woodbury, NY 11797
tel: 516-921-3456
fax: 516-364-0144
Alan Sherr, D.C.
220 Ft. Salonga Road
Northport, NY 11768
tel: 631-262-8505
fax: 631-754-2909
Andrea Vianna, M.D.
6 Pine Street North
Lake Grove, NY 11755
tel: 631-580-3307
fax: 631-580-3307
Mitchell Kurk, M.D.
Lawrence Family Medical Practice, P.C.
310 Broadway
Lawrence, NY 11559
tel: 516-239-5540
fax: 516-371-2919
Alan Dattner, M.D.
17 Rodman Oval
New Rochelle, NY 10805
tel: 914-637-0908
fax: 914-636-2503
Susan Varsames Young, M.Ed.
Holistic Learning Center
575 White Plains Road
Eastchester, NY 10709
tel: 914-793-9100
fax: 914-793-3988
Jeffrey C. Kopelson M.D.
221 Clock Tower Commons
Brewster, NY 10509
tel: 914-278-6800
fax: 914-278-6897
Eugenia Corriero, M.S., P.A.-C.
192 Route 22, Suite 100
Brewster, NY 10509
tel: 845-277-7900
fax: 845-277-7905
Peta Cohen, M.S., R.D.
Total Life Center
1317 3rd Avenue, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10021
tel: 201-541-7601
fax: 201-547-7876
Warren Levin, M.D.
31 East 28th Street
New York, NY 10016
tel: 212-679-9667
fax: 212-679-9730
Ronald Hoffman, M.D.
40 E. 30th Street
New York, NY 10016
tel: 212-779-1744
fax: 212-779-0891
Stephen Cowan, M.D.
32 W. 22nd Street
New York, NY 10010
tel: 212-255-1800
fax: 212-255-0714

· North Carolina

John Wilson, M.D.
Great Smokies Medical Center
1312 Patton Avenue
Asheville, NC 28806
tel: 828-252-9833
fax: 828-255-8118
James Biddle, M.D.
Asheville Integrative Medicine
239 South French Broad Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
tel: 828-252-5545
Keith E. Johnson, M.D.
1852 US Hwy #1 South
Southern Pines, NC 28387
tel: 910-695-0335
fax: 910-695-3697
Anne Hines, M.D.
401 Northgate Park Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
tel: 336-896-0954
fax: 336-896-0955

· Ohio

Terry Chappell, M.D.
P.O. Box 248
122 Thurman Street
Bluffton, OH 45817
tel: 419-358-4627
fax: 419-358-1855
Meredith Skotschir, R.N.C.
1557 Limonis NW
Uniontown, OH 44685
tel: 330-823-5335
fax: 330-823-9177
Elizabeth A. Finley-Belgrad, M.D.
146 Forest Hill Road
Boardman, OH 44512
tel: 330-533-6767
fax: 330-782-2591
Sherri Tenpenny, D.O.
13550 Falling Water Road, #202
Strongsville, OH 44136
tel: 440-572-1136
fax: 440-572-2195
Donald R. Blair, D.C.
574 W. Dussel Drive
Maumee, OH 43537
tel: 419-893-1225
fax: 419-893-8995

· Oregon

Alan Kadish, N.M.D., N.D., A.B.A.A.M.
2612 East Barnett Road
Medford, OR 97504
tel: 541-773-3191
fax: 541-779-5647
Rob Dramov, N.D.
9735 SW Shady Lane, Suite 302
Tigard, OR 97223
tel: 503-639-6454
fax: 503-639-6584
Richard Heitsch, M.D., M.P.H.
171 NE 102nd, Building V
Portland, OR 97220
tel: 503-257-3327
fax: 503-257-3374
Larry Herdener, N.D.
415 E. 3rd Street
McMinnville, OR 97128
tel: 503-434-6170
fax: 503-472-2711
Jennifer Reid, N.D.
Columbia River Natural Medicine
226 West Historic Columbia River Hwy
Troutdale, OR 97060
tel: 503-492-9427
fax: 503-492-7958
John Green, M.D.
516 High Street
Oregon City, OR 97045
tel: 503-722-4270
fax: 503-722-4450

· Pennsylvania

Conrad G. Maulfair, Jr., D.O.
Maulfair Medical Center
P.O. Box 98
403 North Main Street
Topton, PA 19562
tel: 610-682-2104
fax: 610-682-9781
W. Wm. Shay, D.O.
19 Anthony's Mill Road
Barto, PA 19504
tel: 610-845-8400
fax: 610-845-8426
Peter Prociuk, M.D.
322 North High Stret West Chester, PA 19380
tel: 610-701-5702
fax: 610-701-4225
Philip L. Bonnet, M.D.
1086 Taylorsville Road
Washington Crossing, PA 18977
tel: 215-321-8321
fax: 215-321-9837
Arthur Koch, D.O.
57 W. Juniper Street
Hazleton, PA 18201
tel: 570-455-4747
fax: 570-455-6312

· South Carolina

Allan Lieberman, M.D.
7510 N. Forest Drive
N. Charleston, SC 29420
tel: 843-572-1600
fax: 843-572-1795

· Texas

Francisco Soto, M.D.
5744 Tablerock Drive
El Paso, TX 79912
tel: 915-581-2273
fax: 915-585-2274
Robert R. Somerville, M.D.
720 N. 77 Sunshine Strip
Harlingen, TX 78550
tel: 956-428-0757
fax: 956-428-8560
Jesus Antonio Caquias, M.D.
625 East Price Road
Brownsville, TX 78521
tel: 956-831-9353
fax: 956-831-7749
Lawrence D. Ginsberg, M.D.
17115 Red Oak Drive, #109
Houston, TX 77090
tel: 281-893-4111
fax: 281-893-8082
Arturo M. Volpe, D.C., C.C.N.
5555 Morningside Drive, Suite 214-D
Houston, TX 77005
tel: 713-529-5669
fax: 713-529-5590
Mary Ann Block, D.O.
1750 Norwood Drive
Hurst (Dallas Area), TX 76054
tel: 817-280-9933
fax: 817-280-9966
Constantine Kotsanis, M.D.
1600 W. College Street, Suite 260
Grapevine, TX 76051
tel: 817-481-6342
fax: 817-488-8903

· Utah

Dennis W. Remington, M.D.
1675 No. Freedom Boulevard, #11-E
Provo, UT 84604
tel: 801-373-8500
fax: 801-373-3426

· Virginia

Anne Wilgus, P.A.-C.
1120 McConville Road, Suite B
Lynchburg, VA 24502
tel: 434-582-4700
fax: 434-582-4704
Margaret Gennaro, M.D.
Natural Horizons Wellness Center
10640 Main Street, #300
Fairfax, VA 22030
tel: 703-246-9355, x 105
fax: 703-267-6977

· Washington

Stephen Smith, M.D.
1516 Jadwin Avenue
Richland, WA 99352
tel: 509-946-1695
fax: 509-946-7666
Geoffrey S. Ames, M.D., P.L.L.C.
P.O. Box 430
Richland, WA 99352
tel: 509-943-3934
fax: 509-943-4016
Richard Wilkinson, M.D.
302 S. 12th Avenue
Yakima, WA 98902
tel: 509-453-5506
fax: 509-575-0211
Liliane J. Bartha, M.D.
3425 Ensign Road NE, Suite 250B
Olympia, WA 98501
tel: 360-456-2967
fax: 360-357-6443
Mark Steinberg, N.D.
2505 Cedarwood, #5
Bellingham, WA 98225
tel: 360-738-3230
fax: 360-738-4955
Que Areste, N.D.
1605 12th Avenue, #16
Seattle, WA 98122
tel: 206-328-2926
Sally Rockwell, Ph.D., C.N.
4703 Stone Way North
Seattle, WA 98103
tel: 206-547-1814
fax: 206-547-7696
Jonathan Wright, M.D.
801 Southwest 16th
Renton, WA 98055
tel: 425-264-0059
fax: 425-264-0071

· Wisconsin

Channing Wiersema, M.D.
Plover Family Practice
2401 Plover Road
Plover, WI 54467
tel: 715-295-3800
fax: 715-295-3833
Jeanie Muckian, B.S., M.S.
55 Oaks
700 Rayovac Road
Madison, WI 53711
tel: 608-278-1606
fax: 608-273-5081
Bohn, M.D. R.Ph.
6 Grand Canyon Court
Madison, WI 53705
tel: 608-836-6323
fax: 608-831-9546
M. Hintz, R.N.
W23437 New Deal Avenue
East Troy, WI 53120
tel: 262-745-1472
fax: 262-642-2421
John Hicks, M.D.
5411 Hwy 50
Delavan, WI 53115
tel: 262-740-3000
fax: 262-740-3001

Source: http://www.healing-arts.org/children/amyholmes.htm

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