By MARIA CHENG
AP Medical Writer
Associated Press
The Albany Herald
May 24, 2010
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's top medical group on Monday banned a doctor whose research suggesting a link between a common vaccine and autism caused millions of parents worldwide to abandon the shot for measles, mumps and rubella.
Dr. Andrew Wakefield was the first to publish peer-reviewed research suggesting such a connection, even though the study was later widely discredited. The ruling by Britain's General Medical Council found him guilty of serious professional misconduct.
Wakefield, 53, then moved to the U.S. and set up an autism center in Texas, where he has a wide following, but faces similar skepticism from the medical community. The ruling in Britain only applies to his right to practice medicine in the U.K., not in other countries.
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General Medical Council's ruling on Wakefield: http://www.gmc-uk.org/Wakefield-SPM-and-SANCTION.pdf-32595267.pdf
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