The report, published in the medical journal Clinical Review, said that there was 'no evidence' that either MMR or single measles vaccines are associated with autism or inflammatory bowel disease after the authors, Dr Anna Donald and Dr Vivek Muthu, conducted a detailed search of the world's scientific literature on MMR and single measles vaccination.
The authors considered the 1998 study by Dr Andrew Wakefield that originally raised the question of a link between MMR and developmental disorder in 12 children with bowel symptoms. They criticised the study as being 'retrospective', saying that parents were surveyed up to eight years after vaccination, the number of cases was small, the study lacked a control group, and it was selective in its sample.
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