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MMR vaccination take-up rises
By Laura Lee Davies on 29/09/2006 01:15:59
The Government says more parents are having their children vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella again.
report linked the vaccine (which covers measles, mumps and rubella) to a risk of autism, some years ago, health bodies have battled with public confidence overthe treatment. Many health areas have taken to policies such as demanding that a child be given
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Know-how: MMR vaccine
By Laura Lee Davies on 01/10/2007 01:59:32
Although the MMR jab has courted some controversy, experts are convinced of its safety and its importance
taking their children to have the jab (at 12 months and a booster at four years). Since then the work which questioned the vaccine's safety has been discredited because one of the areas of study was being paid for in a manner which constituted 'a conflict
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Doctors call for higher MMR take-up
By Laura Lee Davies on 27/06/2006 12:49:48
Vaccine experts and pediatricians call for parents to take up the MMR vaccine to guard against growing measels outbreaks.
A conference by the British Medical Association this week includes the release of an open letter from 30 pediatricians and vaccine experts, calling on the media and other health professionals to stop casting doubt over the safety of the MMR vaccine
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