In 1998, Andrew Wakefield and colleagues published a paper in The Lancet linking the MMR vaccine to autism. This coincided with a growing belief that environmental cues were causing the increase ...

In 2004 he sought a spending earmark for an autism research center led by Andrew Wakefield, whose 1998 study in The Lancet claimed to link autism to MMR vaccines. The Lancet retracted the study ...

I was just starting out in pediatrics in 1998 when Andrew Wakefield published the study that would haunt my entire career in ...

In 1998, British doctor Andrew Wakefield published a widely publicized study in The Lancet that suggested a link between autism and the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR). Though the study ...

The original notion that there is somehow a link between vaccines and autism in children stems from a widely debunked study ...