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All the latest breaking news on MMR vaccine. Browse The Independent’s complete collection of articles and commentary on MMR vaccine.
If MMR was the cause of illness, say the experts, the number of autism diagnoses would also have levelled off by now. September 2001: Researchers from St George's Hospital, London, UK, and the Institute for Child Health give the vaccine the all-clear after examining all the studies into MMR that have been carried out. The research is published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Hypothesis testing and presentation of the outcome—either positive or negative—is a fundamental part of the scientific process. Accordingly we have published studies that both do,1 and do not2 support a role for measles virus in chronic intestinal inflammation: this is called integrity. The latest of these studies was strongly positive,3 and was accepted by the MRC Review in February, 1998.
MMR is a combined vaccine for the three potentially highly harmful childhood diseases - measles, mumps, and rubella (also known as German measles). It is given to children on the NHS in two doses: the first between the ages of 12 and 15 months and a second 'booster' dose, typically before a child goes to school between the ages of three and five years. All EU member states, the USA, Canada.
All the latest breaking news on MMR. Browse The Independent’s complete collection of articles and commentary on MMR.
Immunisation is a cost effective and critical element of preventive care around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that it prevents between two and three million deaths each year. Nurses have a major role in advising and promoting immunisation. This includes administering vaccinations included in the childhood immunisation programme and those recommended for adults.
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