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Wakefield leaves US clinic
Before After Andrew Wakefield has apparently left his job with the US autism clinic he helped to found. Wakefield, the doctor whose research fuelled fears over a link between autism and the MMR vaccine, is no longer listed among the staff of Thoughtful House (shown right). A number of newspapers report that he left his role as executive director after a damning ruling from a panel convened by UK medical regulator the General Medical Council (GMC). “We fully support his decision to leave in order to make sure the recent GMC findings did not interfere with the important work that
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