When one study linked childhood vaccines to autism, it set off a panic. The research didn't hold up, but some wounded families can't move on....

Filed under: Medical conditions, Development In 1998, the medical journal The Lancet published a paper that claimed there was a clear link between the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, and rubella) and autism. As a result, parents of autistic children began clamoring for changes in the vaccines and in th...

Claims about Dr Andrew Wakefield have reopened the debate about the controversial jab says Liz Hunt....

It is sad that Dr Andrew Wakefield's research on a gut condition linked to autism has been lost along with his reputation says Gill Hornby....

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A constant theme in 2008 was the rebranding of autism, as Orac at Respectful Insolence referred to how the likes of David Kirby have been constantly saying that “autism isn’t autism”—-it’s “mercury poisoning,” “vaccine-aggravated mitochondrial disorder...

A 17-year-old from West Yorkshire is the first person to die of measles in the UK in two years. He was admitted to a hospital in April with pneumonia, which he got after getting measles. More in today’s Telegraph, which notes that MMR vaccination coverage has been “sub-optimal” in ...

Slowly but surely the damage done by Andrew Wakefield is being systematically undone by rational scientific research. The so called leaky gut theory is that vaccines like MMR damage the gut wall, causing increased levels of peptides which can be detected in urine; it is claimed these raised peptide ...

A new study in the Archives of Disease in Childhood suggests that autistic children do not appear to have proteins leaking into their intestinal systems and causing damage, today’s BBC News reports. Researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and the ...

12 cases of measles have been reported in the San Diego area, all in children who were not vaccinated due to their being too young, or due to their parents choosing not to vaccinate them. A story last week in the San Diego Union-Tribune noted that more and more parents have been exercising their rig...