Wakefield’s paper on MMR finally retracted

The editors of the journal announced that following the judgment of the UK.

General Medical Council's Fitness to Practise Panel on Jan 28, 2010, “it has.

become clear that several elements of the 1998 paper by Wakefield are incorrect,.

contrary to the findings of an earlier investigation..

“In particular, the claims in the original paper that children were.

‘consecutively referred’ and that investigations were ‘approved’ by the local.

ethics committee have been proven to be false. Therefore we fully retract this.

paper.”.

The 1998 research paper linked MMR vaccine to autism and this resulted in a.

surge in measles as the MMR vaccination rates declined after its publication..

The full retraction comes a week after the UK General Medical Council ruled.

that the lead researcher of the paper Wakefield has “broken research rules”..

Concerns about the paper were first raised almost seven years ago, in 2004..

At that time, Lancet asked London’s Royal Free Society, where Wakefield worked.

as a gastroenterologist at that time, to look into the matter..

The Society investigated and responded saying there was no problem with the.

research paper..

The date of the final ruling from the watchdog has not yet been announced.

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