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LONDON, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- An investigative journalist says the former physician whose study purported to find a link between autism and toddler vaccines created an "elaborate fraud."
LONDON, May 24 (UPI) -- A British doctor who aroused widespread concerns about the MMR vaccine that ultimately were proved unfounded, has had his medical license lifted, officials say.
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LONDON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The Lancet, a British medical journal, retracted a 1998 study that linked the childhood measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism.
LONDON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A British doctor says he did not manipulate data that concluded vaccines against measles, mumps and rubella potentially could cause autism.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Parents' push for progress in autism research and discovery has meant a pull for political allies.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Exactly what and even how much doctors know about autism and its causes is a matter of debate.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Now in full bloom among many parents and even scientists and doctors, the budding view of vaccine as agent of autism began sprouting in the 1980s.
WASHINGTON, June 12 (UPI) -- Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the British gastroenterologist who first raised the prospect of a link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism, is being purs
LONDON, June 12 (UPI) -- The British doctor who sparked an international scare over the safety of MMR vaccine reportedly faces charges of alleged professional misconduct.
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