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| | The Royal Free hospital scandal - Brian Deer investigates |
 | | In February 2004, research by Dr Andrew Wakefield and other doctors at the 1000-bed Royal Free hospital, Hampstead, north London (pictured above), purporting to show a link between the MMR vaccine and autism in children, was exposed as a sham. |
 | | But overlooked in a media storm that greeted the revelations was the care, or possibly lack of it, accorded to first 30, then at least 170, autistic children who were used in the research. |
 | | Brian Deer would be interested to hear from anyone with information, insights or ideas about MMR, the Wakefield affair, including its pursuance in the United States, the publishing standards at the Lancet, or the events at the Royal Free hospital and its medical school. |
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