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...plausible conclusion is that pediatricians should avoid giving small children a large number of vaccines at once, even if they are thimerosal-free. Young children have an immature immune system that's ill-equipped to handle an overload, says Dr. Judy Van de Water, an immunologist who works with Pessah at U.C. Davis. "Some vaccines, such as those aimed at viral infections, are designed to ramp up the immune system at warp speed," she says. "They are designed to mimic the infection. So you can imagine getting nine at one time, how sick you could be." In addition, she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Case Study: Autism and Vaccines | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

Could thimerosal or some other aspect of vaccines be one of these factors? "It's always possible that there's a small subset of kids that have this vulnerability," says Dr. Isaac Pessah, director of the Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention at the University of California, Davis. Pessah's lab is looking at dozens of possible environmental factors, including pesticides, plastics and flame-retardants. "This is a very emotional debate," he says, "and we need more research directed at these questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Case Study: Autism and Vaccines | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

...Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention at the University of California at Davis, toxicologist Isaac Pessah is studying hair, blood, urine and tissue samples from 700 families with autism. He's testing for 17 metals, traces of pesticides, opioids and other toxicants. In March Pessah caused a stir by releasing a study that showed that even the low level of mercury used in vaccines preserved with thimerosal, long a suspect in autism, can trigger irregularities in the immune-system cells - at least in the test tube. But he does not regard thimerosal (which has been removed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Autistic Mind | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...Israel, every half-hour we get news. Here you can't follow so closely," said Hannah Himan-Pessah, head of the Strategic Planning and Information Unit in the Dimona Municipality. "Our impression is that we're not getting the full picture...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nine High-Ranking Israeli Officials, K-School Fellows Speak at Hillel | 9/24/1997 | See Source »

...Eighth Day. Eight miles from Dr. Yadin's Cave of Letters in the Wilderness of Judah, the second archaeological team, headed by grey-haired Polish Emigré Pessah Bar-Adon, 53, dug through six feet of debris in another cave. On the eighth day, behind a smooth stone that blocked a wall niche, it discovered a collection of artifacts that Bar-Adon quietly described as "probably archaeologically sensational": 432 copper, bronze, ivory and stone decorated objects that seem to be mace heads, scepters, crowns, powder horns, tools and weapons. Ranging in size from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

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