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Britain bans doctor who linked autism to vaccine

Headlines from the Associated Press  Mon, 05/24/2010 - 18:31

LONDON (AP) -- The doctor whose research linking autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella influenced millions of parents to refuse the shot for their children was banned Monday from practicing medicine in his native Britain....


 

Autism and diet: Many questions to digest

washingtonpost.com - Health  Wed, 02/10/2010 - 23:00

Last week, the British medical journal the Lancet, which had originally published a controversial 1998 study by British researcher Andrew Wakefield that implied a link between autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, formally retracted that study .

In the wake of this, one of the...


 

300 people diagnosed with mumps in suburban NY

Headlines from the Associated Press  Sat, 02/06/2010 - 19:55

MONSEY, N.Y. (AP) -- More than 300 people have been diagnosed with the mumps in suburban New York as the nation's largest outbreak of the disease in years spreads....


 

Mumps Shots Didn't Fully Protect in 2006

Headlines from the Associated Press  Wed, 04/09/2008 - 15:09

Most of the college students who got the mumps in a big outbreak in 2006 had received the recommended two vaccine shots, according to a study that raises questions about whether a new vaccine or another booster shot is needed.

The outbreak was the biggest in the U.S. since shortly before states began requiring a second shot for youngsters in 1990....