New CDC Autism Study Results
From the desk of Sofia Shakir, MD In light of National Autism Month I thought it would be apropos to broach that topic that excites both parents and pediatricians alike- vaccines. Some of you may be scratching your heads wondering why I am mentioning vaccines along with autism. If that is the case then not only am I excited; I am ecstatic. But more than likely you are not surprised at all. Neither is the medical community which is why the federal government is still spending valuable resources, time and tax dollars on looking into any possible relation between vaccines and autism. Fears of the MMR vaccine really took off after British physician Andrew Wakefield published a small study of 12 children in the journal Lancet in 1998. In the study Wakefield suggested a link between the vaccine and autism. It was later found that the study was deemed to be unethical with improper oversig...