Downing St---MMR - support http://www.number-10.gov.uk/default.asp?pageid=6034  

In this country the following independent groups of medical and scientific experts support the use of MMR and believe that it is safe:

• British Medical Association
• Royal College of Nursing
• Royal College of General Practitioners
• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
• Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association
• Faculty of Public Health Medicine
• Royal College of Midwives
• Unison
• Sense
• Royal Pharmaceutical SocietyPublic Health Laboratory ServiceMedicines Control Agency

"A Sunday Express investigation has found that nearly a third of the 181 experts who sit on the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) committees are linked to GlaxoSmithKline, Aventis Pasteur or Merck, Sharpe and Dohme."--Sunday Express

"In the latest annual report for the "Medicines Act 1968 Advisory Bodies", she (Miller of the PHLS) lists five "non-personal" interests — payments which benefit her department rather than herself personally. They are grants from Baxter Healthcare, Wyeth Lederle Vaccines, Chiron Biocine, and SmithKline Beecham and "CMI testing in adolescent sera", courtesy of Aventis Pasteur."--Private Eye

• Dr Vas Novelli, Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Great Ormond Street Hospital
• Child health consultant, Professor David Elliman

"Professor David Elliman, whose study said fears of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism were unfounded, admitted that he and Dr Helen Bedford had been given money by drugs giants SmithKline Beecham and Pasteur Merieux Merck Sharp & Dohme. Their report, MMR Vaccine - Worries Are Not Justified, is published in the current issue of the medical journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, and was used by the government to reiterate its view that the vaccine is safe."--Media    Makers of MMR II---Aventis Pasteur MSD

• Dr John Chisholm of the BMA
• George Kassianos Royal College of General Practitioners
• Dr Helen Bedford, Institute of Child Health

"Professor David Elliman, whose study said fears of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism were unfounded, admitted that he and Dr Helen Bedford had been given money by drugs giants SmithKline Beecham and Pasteur Merieux Merck Sharp & Dohme. Their report, MMR Vaccine - Worries Are Not Justified, is published in the current issue of the medical journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, and was used by the government to reiterate its view that the vaccine is safe."--Media    Makers of MMR II---Aventis Pasteur MSD

• Professor David Hall, Royal College Paediatrics & Child Health