February 11, 2010 – 7:39 pm
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
Defective serotonin pathways in the brain stem may increase infants’ vulnerability
Children’s Hospital Boston
October 31, 2006
New autopsy data provide the strongest evidence yet that sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is not a “mystery” disease but has a concrete biological basis. In the November 1 issue of JAMA, researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston document abnormalities in the brainstem — a part of the brain that regulates breathing, blood pressure, body heat, and arousal — in babies who died from SIDS. SIDS is the leading cause of death in American infants after the newborn period, affecting 0.67 in 1,000 live-born babies.
February 5, 2010 – 10:02 pm
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
A Survey of Internal Medicine Physicians’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Barriers.
Teratogen: Any agent that can disturb the development of an embryo or fetus. Teratogens may cause a birth defect in the child. Or a teratogen may halt the pregnancy outright. The classes of teratogens include radiation, maternal infections, chemicals, and drugs.
January 25, 2010 – 10:23 pm
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
Shaken Baby Syndrome and vaccines
American Chronicle
by Christina England
January 25, 2010
For many years around the world, doctors, scientists and professors of medicine have been debating as to whether ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ or SBS as it is known, actually exists. For a diagnoses of SBS a baby will need to display a serious acquired brain injury, which is said to be caused when a frustrated or angry adult holds an infant or toddler by the trunk or arms and shakes back and forth in a jerking, whiplash motion. Most cases occur in children under one year of age, although there are documented cases of SBS in older children.
January 19, 2010 – 5:41 pm
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
by Viera Scheibner, PhD
Published in the “Journal of Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine”, Vol. 20 No. 2; August 2001
ABSTRACT
An epidemic of accusations against parents and baby sitters of Shaken Baby Syndrome is sweeping the developed world. The United States and the United Kingdom are in the forefront of such questionable practice. Brain (mainly subdural, less often subarachnoid) and retinal haemorrhages, retinal detachments, and rib and other bone ‘fractures’ are considered pathognomic. However, the reality of these injuries is very different and well documented: the vast majority occur after the administration of childhood vaccines and a minority of cases are due to documented birth injuries and pre-eclamptic and eclamptic states of the mothers.
January 19, 2010 – 4:08 pm
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
Washington Post
By Tom Jackman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
As a criminal trial in Fairfax County tries to determine who, or what, caused 4-month-old Noah Whitmer’s brain hemorrhage, the debate over whether “shaken baby syndrome” exists has erupted into a national battle of the experts.
Most criminal trials focus on what the defendant did and didn’t do. But in this case, the complicated matter of what’s humanly possible is at center stage.
January 3, 2010 – 8:25 pm
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
Body Burden
The Pollution in Newborns
A benchmark investigation of industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides in umbilical cord blood
Environmental Working Group, July 14, 2005
Summary. In the month leading up to a baby’s birth, the umbilical cord pulses with the equivalent of at least 300 quarts of blood each day, pumped back and forth from the nutrient- and oxygen-rich placenta to the rapidly growing child cradled in a sac of amniotic fluid. This cord is a lifeline between mother and baby, bearing nutrients that sustain life and propel growth.
January 3, 2010 – 12:59 pm
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
American Chronicle
December 30, 2009
by Christina England
Christmas time is a time for families and a time for children but sadly many families this year faced a Christmas without their children because child protection agencies and paediatricians misdiagnosed very real conditions, opting instead to accuse parents of shaking their babies. As a result many families could not join in the seasons festivities with the children they love, they could not buy them presents or prepare their Christmas stockings and some were left with no idea where their children were or even who they were with. One such family is Zabeth and Paul Baynes, their children were removed from their care on October 22, 2007 after they say they were falsely accused of Shaken Baby Syndrome.
December 12, 2009 – 1:34 pm
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
Court tells Sherry Sherrett-Robinson it was ‘profoundly regrettable’ that she was convicted and jailed for crime she didn’t commit.
The Globe and Mail
By Kirk Makin
December 7, 2009
The ranks of the wrongly convicted grew by one Monday as an Ontario woman who served a year in jail for the death of her baby boy was acquitted of infanticide by the Ontario Court of Appeal.
After hearing a joint submission in favour of Sherry Sherrett-Robinson by the Crown and defence, the court told the 34-year-old woman it was “profoundly regrettable” that she was wrongly convicted based on errors by Charles Smith, who was once the toast of the pathology community.
December 5, 2009 – 11:22 am
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
One Click Group
By Lisa Blakemore Brown
Psychologist
Dec. 2, 2009
On 1st October 2009, Sir Roy Meadow relinquished his status as Doctor/Professor after applying to have his name removed from the UK GMC Register. To check these facts, go to the GMC website, then to Check a Doctors Registration on the right of the opening page. Sir Roy’s GMC Registration details were: 0533 803. Type these in and follow the links.
The result of this action is that he can no longer work as a Doctor in the UK and can no longer work as an Expert Witness in Court cases. He can no longer use his title of Professor. In addition, and worryingly, anyone who wants to complain about his actions in their cases can no longer do so through the General Medical Council (GMC).
November 21, 2009 – 10:46 am
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
WCBD TV
South Carolina
November 19, 2009
“This case, from when I got the call, was in reference to what appear to be a shaken baby syndrome; therefore what I responded by assuming that the child had been shaken by somebody,” state witness Karen Sams, of the state Department Social Services Office in Charleston, testified.
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