HSE boss Tony O’Brien has launched a scathing attack on campaigners against the HPV vaccine, accusing them of “emotional terrorism”.

Vaxxed, the controversial movie on the conspiracies surrounding the MMR vaccine, lacks credibility, says Michael Clifford.

Dublin City University has denied the suggestion that it had accepted a booking to host a controversial film by a discredited campaigner who claims there is a link between autism and vaccines.

A US film studio has threatened to sue an Irish autism-rights advocate if she continues to speak out against its controversial anti-vaccine documentary, Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe,.

Irish parents are sending children to a clinic in Bulgaria for dangerous treatments that “cure” autism.

Robert De Niro is removing Vaxxed, the anti-vaccination documentary from the lineup of his Tribeca Film Festival, after initially defending its inclusion.

While nearly all health professionals deny a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, rates of measles are rising in the US and the author of the discredited study is unapolegitic, writes Stav Ziv

It’s like a mad extension of that “mistakes” and “bad choices” scenario.

Almost a thousand young children in North Cork are being put at risk of serious illnesses due to an extremely low take-up of the potentially lifesaving MMR and 4-in-1 vaccines.

One of the doctors struck off over the MMR jab controversy in the UK asked the High Court today to rule his treatment “unfair and unjust”.

MORE than one in 10 British-based scientists or doctors have witnessed colleagues intentionally altering or fabricating data during their research, according to a survey by the British Medical Journal.

DR ANDREW Wakefield, the-now disgraced doctor who published studies linking vaccines with autism, committed an “elaborate fraud” by faking data, the British Medical Journal has said.

ANDREW WAKEFIELD, now struck off the medical register in Britain because of his dangerous campaign falsely to link the MMR vaccine to autism, is a lucky man that being disbarred from practice is all that has happened to him. Why are there no laws in Britain to prosecute charlatans like him when their lies damage the public health and become common currency worldwide?

A “DISHONEST” doctor at the centre of an MMR row will be struck off the medical register, the General Medical Council (GMC) ruled yesterday.

The doctor who claimed the MMR vaccine could cause autism in children is planning to appeal against his ban from practicing in the UK.

The doctor at the centre of the MMR row was today struck off the medical register in the UK.

AN eminent journal which published a controversial research paper sparking concerns over a possible link between the MMR vaccine and autism retracted it from the public record yesterday.

An eminent journal which published a controversial research paper sparking concerns over a possible link between the MMR vaccine and autism retracted it from the public record today.

WITH tousled brown hair and sporting a check shirt, Dr Andrew Wakefield, 52, cuts an unassuming figure. It is hard to imagine that he almost single-handedly sparked one of the world’s biggest health scares.

There is no evidence of a link between the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and autism according to a new independent virus study published in the UK today.

The doctor who sparked the MMR controversy is appearing before a disciplinary panel in Britain today.

THE British doctor who sparked the MMR controversy will appear before a disciplinary panel today.

YOUR reporter Claire O’Sullivan covered the National Immunisation Conference hosted by the Health Service Executive in Cork (Irish Examiner, May 4).

THE majority of parents who are reluctant to have their children immunised are well-educated, high-income parents who are influenced by the media and internet, according to a study.

Experts conclusively rejected any suggestion that the triple measles, mumps and rubella jab was linked to disorders including autism.

EXPERTS who analysed 31 studies conclusively rejected any suggestion that the triple measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jab was linked to disorders including autism.

There is no evidence to support a link between the controversial MMR jab and the development of autism in children, researchers in Britain said today.

EVER since Dr Andrew Wakefield's medical research showed a link between the MMR vaccine and the onset of autism in child recipients, he has been demonised by the British establishment. It is now said that his findings are flawed by conflict of interest.

THE row over the doctor who sparked the MMR controversy intensified last night after the British Chief Medical Officer made stinging criticisms of his research.

THE doctor whose research linking MMR to autism in children was described as “flawed” hit back yesterday, saying he welcomed an investigation into his claims.

IRELAND is facing a measles epidemic this winter unless parents stop boycotting the MMR jab.

The British Department of Health will provide top-up funding for "on-going" research into the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine.

Further doubts about the safety of the MMR vaccine have been raised after research said trials of the jab were inadquate.