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• MMR: Don't treat parents like children

  It’s all unravelling badly for our health guardians who have been trying their upmost to convince us that the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine is perfectly safe. In the past few weeks we’ve heard from the US that a court has awarded substantial Read More... Posted 28 March 2008 12:10 by Bryan Hubbard | 37 Comments Filed under: MMR, autism, Andrew Wakefield, mumps, measles, rubella

• MMR: Mercury, the bringer of autism

  The MMR-autism debate just isn't letting up, especially in the States where a TV drama has this week jettisoned it back onto the front pages. The programme, Eli Stone, features a lawyer who wins a $1 million lawsuit for a mother whose child became Read More... Posted 15 February 2008 16:08 by Bryan Hubbard | 21 Comments Filed under: MMR, autism, Nancy Minshew, Eli Stone, thimerosal

• MMR: Parents do it for themselves

  Advocates of childhood immunisation consistently argue that there is no evidence to suggest that vaccines are dangerous. Claims that the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine in particular causes autism has never been established. In fact, they say, every Read More... Posted 07 December 2007 11:36 by Bryan Hubbard | 23 Comments Filed under: ADHD, MMR, autism, Generation Rescue

• MMR: The myth of the herd

  Health experts are concerned that the uptake of the MMR vaccine is still far too low to provide ‘herd immunity’ for the population. Vaccination levels have risen to 85 per cent overall following the autism scare - but they are still well below Read More... Posted 28 September 2007 13:16 by Bryan Hubbard | 9 Comments Filed under: MMR, autism, herd immunity, vaccine

• Autism and the MMR

  Times are hard for our health regulators, who have been trying for years to put the lid on the theory that the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine may be linked to autism. A new study, prepared by the prestigious autism research team at Cambridge University, Read More... Posted 10 July 2007 12:00 by Bryan Hubbard | 36 Comments Filed under: MMR, autism, Dr Andrew Wakefield