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  • Confusion can cost lives

    A UK company is visiting Dublin to offer the MMR vaccine in separate doses. But why do the allegations, based on 'spurious science', that the MMR is linked to autism create more fear than the likely prospect of another fatal measles epidemic? p

  • MMR vaccine in the dock - verdict, not guilty

    With significant public concern about the safety of the MMR vaccine, this week's column examines the scientific evidence for and against an association between MMR, autism and inflammatory bowel disease. p

  • The effects of childhood diseases and the MMR vaccine

    MEASLES Almost one child in five is hospitalisedOne child in 16 gets pneumoniaOne child in 20 suffers from ear infections or diarrhoeaOne child in 200 suffers febrile convulsionsOne child in 1,000 gets encephalitis (brain inflammation)One child in 2,500 diesFive children in 1,000,000 get SSPE (fatal brain damage which follows many years after apparent recovery) p

  • Lifelines

    Bereavement: St Francis Hospice provides a comprehensive specialist palliative care service serving north Dublin city and county. As part of its services, a new day-care and children's bereavement centre was recently opened by the President of Ireland, Mrs McAleese. p
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