British Medical Journal calls for inquiry into role of UCL academics who linked vaccine to autism. A leading medical journal today calls on MPs to launch a parliamentary inquiry into research linking the MMR vaccine with autism and bowel disease, after claiming to have exposed evidence of widespread fraud behind the work of Andrew Wakefield involving up to 18 researchers and academics – including "senior personnel at the highest level".
A high court has ruled that two sisters must have the MMR jab against their wishes and the wishes of their mother. The decision was made after the father of the girls, aged 15 and 11, brought the case to the High Court in September.