Welcome to HAPI

Welcome to Health Advocacy in the Public Interest (HAPI). Please browse through our site and partake of our vision of medication-free, healthy children. HAPI's primary goal is to seek and provide funds for the first study ever done comparing the health of vaccinated to unvaccinated children. That’s right, it has never been done. This study will look at the increasing rates of neurological disorders and autoimmune diseases, including autism, ADD, ADHD, SIDS, asthma, diabetes, MS and other maladies now prevalent in our nation's offspring.

'91 Memo Warned of Mercury in Shots
A memo from Merck & Co. shows that, nearly a decade before the first public disclosure, senior executives were concerned that infants were getting an elevated dose of mercury in vaccinations containing a widely used sterilizing agent. Read the entire article here or here.

Visit Our Petition Site!
HAPI believes in correcting the media when they are blatantly inaccurate and misleading. So far, HAPI has successfully collected over 1,100 signatures for a petition to People Magazinewhich prompted a productive conversation with the senior editor of medical content and a letter to be printed on our behalf.

HAPI also sent 3,154 signatures and comments in hard copy to 60 Minutes II after their October 20, 2004 segment on vaccines and autism. Click here to read their response. Full text of our very educational petitions and letters can be viewed at www.autismtruth.org

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Thoughtful House Center for Childrenis proud to present their first scientific meeting, Austin in Action: The Evolving Medical Model in Childhood Developmental Disorders: Implications for Clinical and Educational Care.

This meeting will be held on April 3, 2005 at the Omni Downtown in Austin, TX. Presenters include: Dr. Paul Ashwood, Mark Blaxill, Dr. Jane El-Dahr, Alan Goldblatt, Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh, Dr. Boyd Haley, Dr. Arthur Krigsman, Dr. Elizabeth Mumper, Dr. Carol Stott, Dr. Anju Usman, Dr. Andrew Wakefield and Dr. Steve Walker.

For more information or to register online visit our website at www.thoughtfulhouse.org or call 512.732.8400.

PRESS RELEASE
August 12, 2004
Health Advocacy in the Public Interest (HAPI)
Contact: Dawn Winkler 970-641-7413
Vaccines Are Not Mercury Free
After much controversy surrounding the mercury content of childhood vaccinations, HAPI raised $500 to have four vaccines tested for heavy metal content at Doctor's Data, an independent lab specializing in heavy metal testing. Many vaccine manufacturers voluntarily began producing supposed "mercury-free" vaccines in 1999. The June, 2004 lab results from Doctor's Data run counter to vaccine manufacturers’ claims. For example, some product inserts currently claim that a "trace" amount of mercury still exists in the final product but that the amount has been greatly reduced. Others claim to be producing completely mercury-free products.

All four vaccine vials tested contained mercury despite manufacturer claims that two of the vials were completely mercury free. All four vials also contained aluminum; one contained nine times more than the other three, tremendously enhancing the toxicity of mercury which causes neuronal death in the brain. (to see the lab test click here).

Thimerosal, a 50% mercury compound is still being used to produce most vaccines, but the manufacturers claim to be “filtering it out” of the final product. However, according to Boyd Haley, PhD, Chemistry Department Chair, University of Kentucky, mercury binds to the antigenic protein in the vaccine and cannot be completely filtered out. It is now well known that mercury in vaccines is associated with autism and other neurological disorders in children; 1 in 166 children is now autistic and 1 in 6 have neurological disorders such as ADD, ADHD, etc.

It is the position of Dr. Haley and HAPI that the mercury content of vaccines should be disclosed in the product insert, and that manufacturers should not be allowed to call the product “mercury-free” if mercury can be detected using standard instrumentation. Dawn Winkler, co-founder of HAPI, met with FDA officials in Silver Spring, Maryland on July 27, 2004 to discuss the blatant mislabeling and misrepresentation of ingredients in vaccinations with are licensed by the FDA.

Dawn learned that the FDA has the ability and authority to take on the necessary testing but is unwilling to do so at present. Therefore, this important and expensive task sadly appears to be up to the public. HAPI is attempting to raise more funds for further testing in an effort to pressure the FDA to enforce manufacturers to label their products correctly.

Please help fund further testing.Anything you contribute could well make the difference in children’s lives between chronic illness and a normal, healthy future.

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