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Condemned by the medical establishment, Andrew Wakefield still believes in the link between autism and vaccines.

Scientists have shown how a single protein may trigger autistic spectrum disorders by stopping effective communication between brain cells.

Just a slim majority of Americans 52% think vaccines don't cause autism, a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll found

Finally, after 13 years of needless controversy, the British Medical Journal determined that Andrew Wakefield's vaccine-autism link constituted an "elaborate fraud."

Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children....

The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research.

A new study suggests jaundiced newborns have a higher risk of autism than other babies.

A new government study adds to the evidence that thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative until recently found in many vaccines, does not increase children's risk of autism.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a decision last year by a special vaccine court, which concluded vaccines are not to blame for autism.

The Irving, Tex. mother who strangled her two children earlier this week told a 911 operator she did so because they were both autistic and she wanted normal children, myFOXdfw.com reported Wednesday.