MMR vaccine

(ĕm′ĕm-är′)

A combination of live measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, administered subcutaneously to immunize children against measles, mumps, and rubella infections.

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Translations

MMR vaccine

[ˌememˈaːˌvæksiːn] N (against measles, mumps, rubella) → vacuna f triple vírica

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References in periodicals archive

A federal appeals court upheld the rulings last August, stating, "Petitioners' arguments linking injuries to thimerosal and the MMR vaccine are without merit."

It's past time to bury the idea of a vaccine-autism link

Vaccinated children were actually less likely to develop autism-especially those receiving the MMR vaccine. The researchers suspect this may reflect some other unmeasured factor affecting the children's health status.

Further evidence debunks measles vaccine-autism link

The researchers looked at 240 children ages ten to twelve years old who had received the MMR vaccine. Ninety-eight of the children were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), 52 with special educational needs but not ASD, and 90 with no developmental disorder.

Autism-MMR vaccine myth

MEDICAL experts want a chickenpox vaccine added to the children's MMR vaccine - boosting it to a quadruple jab.

Jab No4 'a boost for MMR'

The real danger may not be the MMR vaccine, but fear of using it.

Foul shot? Autism and the MMR vaccine

Two doses of MMR vaccine are recommended for school and college entry unless the student has other evidence of immunity.

CDC sets vaccine guidelines for mumps outbreak

The study involved more than 535,000 children, 82% of whom were given the MMR vaccine. Of all the children studied, 17,986 experienced febrile seizures at least once.

Danish study shows slight risk of seizure following MMR

Professor James Chipman from Birmingham University, a member of the Committee on Safety of Medicines, received research funding from GlaxoSmithKline, suppliers of the MMR vaccine Priorix.

'MMR SAFE' DOCS HAVE LINKS WITH DRUG FIRMS

The MMR vaccine has been controversial since a British medical study published in 1998 raised fears about a link to autism and bowel disease.

Measles risk for UK organ transplant patients

Of 537,303 children in the study, 82 percent received the three-in-one MMR vaccine. The rates of autism among vaccinated and unvaccinated children--both less than 0.6 case per 1,000--were statistically equivalent, Kreesten Meldgaard Madsen of the Danish Epidemiology Science Center in Arhus and her colleagues report in the Nov.

Study exonerates childhood vaccine. (Immunology)

Andrew Wakefield has found that some children with autism cannot react to the live, modified measles virus present in the MMR vaccine. This data demonstrates a connection, but nut necessarily a causal relationship.

Vaccinations: searching for the middle ground

HEALTH experts are to launch a massive advertising blitz to calm parents' fears over the MMR vaccine.

STOP THIS HYSTERIA; Blair and top doc will use TV adverts to tell parents MMR vaccine is safe