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GMC resumes Wakefield hearing

Jo Carlowe

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Tuesday, 25 March 2008

The GMC today resumed its hearing against Dr Wakefield, who

sparked controversy ten years ago by suggesting a possible link

between autism and MMR.

The hearing, which began in July 2007 and was initially only supposed

to last 16 weeks, is to continue into August.

Included among the allegations is the suggestion that Dr Wakerfield

took blood from a child at a birthday party to use for research

purposes without ethics committee approval, and that he failed to

disclose to the editor of The Lancet his involvement in MMR

litigation and in a patent relating to a new vaccine.

The fitness to practice panel will also consider allegations of

serious professional misconduct by Professors - and

Simon Murch, who worked with Dr Wakefield at the Royal Free Hospital

of Medicine in London on the research project from 1996-1998.

As has been widely publicised, all three practitioners at the time

undertook a study entitled: A new paediatric syndrome: enteritis and

disintegrative disorder following measles/rubella vaccination.

This was followed by the publication of a paper in The Lancet

sparking a national outcry among parents who feared the triple

vaccine could put their children at risk of autism.

The Panel is to inquire into allegations that the three practitioners

undertook this research without proper ethical approval, failed to

conduct the research in accordance with the application submitted to

the ethics committee, and failed to treat the children admitted into

the study in accordance with the terms of the approval given by the

ethics committee.

The allegations to be raised at the hearing are many - including the

claim that some of the investigations carried out on the children,

such as colonoscopies and lumbar punctures, were contrary to their

clinical interests.

Today and tomorrow have been set aside as reading days for the panel

but the hearing will resume in public session on Thursday.

The parents' pressure group JABS stands by Wakefield and colleagues -

accusing the GMC of a " witchhunt " .

" The GMC had brought the case itself claiming that it was in the

public interest. In our view no parent of a child has complained, "

says a spokesperson for JABS.

She accused the GMC of bringing the case because Wakefield's work had

brought to attention " questions over the MMR programme " .

" JABS believes that if MMR vaccines had not been mentioned within the

[Lancet] report there would have been no criticism of the report and

no GMC hearing would be pending for these three doctors. "

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Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK

Vaccines - http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm Vaccine Dangers &

Childhood Disease & Homeopathy Email classes start in March

[Guest guest]

GMC resumes Wakefield hearing

Jo Carlowe

http://www.onmedica.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=f8756492-a3c5-419e-bff8-77cd4bb74a90

Tuesday, 25 March 2008

The GMC today resumed its hearing against Dr Wakefield,

who sparked controversy ten years ago by suggesting a possible link

between autism and MMR.

The hearing, which began in July 2007 and was initially only supposed to

last 16 weeks, is to continue into August.

Included among the allegations is the suggestion that Dr Wakerfield took

blood from a child at a birthday party to use for research purposes

without ethics committee approval, and that he failed to disclose to the

editor of The Lancet his involvement in MMR litigation and in a patent

relating to a new vaccine.

The fitness to practice panel will also consider allegations of serious

professional misconduct by Professors - and Simon Murch,

who worked with Dr Wakefield at the Royal Free Hospital of Medicine in

London on the research project from 1996-1998.

As has been widely publicised, all three practitioners at the time

undertook a study entitled: A new paediatric syndrome: enteritis and

disintegrative disorder following measles/rubella

vaccination.

This was followed by the publication of a paper in The Lancet sparking a

national outcry among parents who feared the triple vaccine could put

their children at risk of autism.

The Panel is to inquire into allegations that the three practitioners

undertook this research without proper ethical approval, failed to

conduct the research in accordance with the application submitted to the

ethics committee, and failed to treat the children admitted into the

study in accordance with the terms of the approval given by the ethics

committee.

The allegations to be raised at the hearing are many - including the

claim that some of the investigations carried out on the children, such

as colonoscopies and lumbar punctures, were contrary to their clinical

interests.

Today and tomorrow have been set aside as reading days for the panel but

the hearing will resume in public session on Thursday.

The parents' pressure group JABS stands by Wakefield and colleagues -

accusing the GMC of a " witchhunt " .

" The GMC had brought the case itself claiming that it was in the

public interest. In our view no parent of a child has complained, "

says a spokesperson for JABS.

She accused the GMC of bringing the case because Wakefield's work had

brought to attention " questions over the MMR

programme " .

" JABS believes that if MMR vaccines had not been mentioned within

the [Lancet] report there would have been no criticism of the report and

no GMC hearing would be pending for these three doctors. "

--------------------------------------------------------

Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales

UK

Vaccines -

http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm Vaccine Dangers &

Childhood Disease & Homeopathy Email classes start in March