ABSTRACT
In the summer of 2005, Abubakar Tariq Nadama, a five-year-old boy with autism, was taken by his mother Marwa from his home in the south-west of England to the USA for biomedical treatment. He was seen by Dr Anju Usman, a family practitioner and director of the True Health Medical Center in Naperville, Illinois Center in Naperville, Illinois. He was subsequently seen by Dr Roy Kerry, a retired ear, nose and throat surgeon who offered chelation therapy at the Advanced Integrative Medicine Center, in Portersville, Pennsylvania. Medical records released in the course of the subsequent inquiry report the sequence of events. (Kane and Linn 2005; Barrett 2006; see also Citizens for Responsible Care and Research, www.circare.org/).
