Andrew Wakefield is accused of paying children for blood samples

doi:10.1136/bmj.39280.513310.4E

BMJ 2007;335:118-119 (21 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.39280.513310.4E

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Andrew Wakefield is accused of paying children for blood samples

Owen Dyer

London

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Andrew Wakefield, whose warnings about a possible link betweenthe measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism sparkeda public health scare, was accused this week by the GeneralMedical Council of paying children £5 ( ${euro}$ 7.40; $10) eachto give blood samples at his son's birthday party.

The accusation was made in the GMC's case involving three doctorswho collaborated on a 1998 Lancet paper on developmental disordersin children. Dr Wakefield, John Walker-Smith, and Simon Murchare accused of ignoring limitations placed on them by the researchethics committee of the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust and subjectingchildren to procedures that were not clinically indicated, includinglumbar punctures, barium meals, general anaesthesia, and colonoscopy.

Dr Wakefield is also accused of misleading the Lancet in failingto disclose his involvement in an application for a patent fora new type of MMR vaccine and his receiving funding . . . [Full text of this article]

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