Topic: The Lancet

AP Features | 2010-02-02 14:56:33

A major British medical journal on Tuesday retracted a flawed study linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease. The retraction by The Lancet comes a day after a competing medical journal, BMJ, issued an embargoed commentary calling for The Lancet to formally retract the study. The commentary was to have been published on Wednesday. The ...

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AP Features | 2010-02-02 13:24:25

British medical journal The Lancet says it has retracted a flawed study linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease. The Lancet published the controversial paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues in 1998. British parents abandoned the vaccine in droves, leading to a resurgence of measles. Subsequent studies found no proof the vaccine is connected to ...

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Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-01-22 18:45:59

LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly 80 percent of the 300,000 conflict-related deaths in Darfur were due to diseases like diarrhea, not violence, Belgian scientists said on Friday. An analysis of deaths dating from 2003, when rebels took up arms against the government of Sudan, showed that after an initial peak of violent deaths in the still-ongoing conflict, diseases associated with diarrhea ...

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AFP Global Edition | 2010-01-22 18:10:26

The leading medical journal The Lancet on Friday accused major aid organisations of corporate preening and self-interest that had contributed to bedlam in the effort to help Haiti. "International organisations, national governments and non-governmental organisations are rightly mobilising, but also jostling for position, each claiming that they are doing the best for earthquake survivors," it said in an editorial. "Some ...

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Vaccines and autism

Windsor Star, Canada | 2010-02-09 03:21:51

Medical journal retracts autism paper

National Post, Canada | 2010-02-08 19:03:56

UK medical journal retracts flawed vaccine study

ABC 7 Washington (WJLA) | 2010-02-08 17:38:25

Retracting a Controversial Autism Study

New York Times | 2010-02-08 11:34:39

Review spotlights clues to serious childhood infection

NBC 4 Sioux City (KTIV) | 2010-02-08 11:22:55

Denying vaccines, evolution, and … dialog?

Thoughts from Kansas | 2010-02-06 01:14:17

How not to report science and medical news, vaccine edition

Respectful Insolence | 2010-02-04 07:26:39

The Debate Over Vaccines And Autism

CBS4 Denver Video | 2010-02-03 09:54:48

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