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Cost of autism in Britai	Hits:1
Autism is important because it condemns children to a lifetime of difference. Right now we don’t know the cause, nor do we have any effective remedies. That will change, and at some point decisions will need to be made not...	03/01/2014
Measles vaccination sche	Hits:1
In areas without recurrent measles transmission WHO recommends the first dose of measles immunisation is MMR at 12-15 months of age. In areas where there is recurrent measles transmission, a two-dose schedule is used with a...	03/01/2014
Gastrointestinal disease	Hits:1
Clinical bottom line Children with autism have gastrointestinal disease no more frequently than children without autism. Reference C Black et al. Relation of childhood gastrointestinal disorders to autism: nested case-control study using...	03/01/2014
MMR and autism - US conf	Hits:1
Britain these past few weeks has seen an unprecedented spate of media-inspired hype over the safety of MMR. Some people give us their views, others present the facts, and a presenter then tells us they can’t make sense of it all...	03/01/2014
MMR and autism: UK datab	Hits:1
Clinical bottom line A large UK case-control study showed no association between MMR and subsequent development of autism. It also performed a meta-analysis of studies, which overall showed a non-significant reduction of autism rates...	03/01/2014
MMR vaccination	Hits:1
More media circuses about vaccinating children with MMR, and the "association" of MMR vaccination with autism and inflammatory bowel disease. Frightening stuff, but much heat and little light. One of Bandolier 's informal team asked us...	03/01/2014
More on MMR and autism	Hits:1
UK study California study Comment If you came to a small Oxfordshire village during the day and counted the number of lights that were on, you would find few. Come at night and you would find many. One conclusion might be...	03/01/2014
Even more on MMR	Hits:1
Measles vaccines and inflammatory bowel disease Results Autism, MMR and GP visits Results Comment Previous issues of Bandolier ( 84 and 86 ) have addressed the safety of MMR vaccines, with strong evidence that there is no...	03/01/2014
MMR and febrile seizures	Hits:1
Clinical bottom line MMR vaccination can produce a fever, and therefore increases the risk of a febrile seizure. The absolute risk is one or two per 1,000 doses of vaccine. Children with a personal history of febrile seizures have a higher...	03/01/2014
Thiomersal not linked to	Hits:1
Study Results Comment Thiomersal (UK spelling) or thimerosal (US spelling) is an organic compound that contains ethylmercury, and which is frequently used as a preservative in chemistry and biochemistry. It has also been used...	03/01/2014
No evidence for new vari	Hits:1
Bottom line No evidence was found to support the existence of a distinct syndrome of MMR-induced autism, or of autism linked with gastrointestinal problems. Reference: E Frombonne, S Chakrabati. No evidence for a new variant of Measles...	03/01/2014
Prophylactic removal of	Hits:1
Prophylactic removal of impacted third molars Results of reviewing the reviews And what was their conclusion? What to do when systematic reviews disagree Never mind the quality? Did quality make a difference? Comment Mindstretcher What...	03/01/2014
Juvenile arthritis	Hits:1
In these pages are collected the stories from Bandolier relating to juvenile arthritis. It includes all the useful studies we could find, but if we missed any, please let us know. Resources for this were made available through a no-strings...	03/01/2014
Antibiotics do not preve	Hits:1
Inclusion criteria Results Comment The team that brought us the analysis of antibiotics in dog bites ( Bandolier 16 ) has also produced a meta-analysis of the use of antibiotics in simple non-bite wounds [1]. Inclusion criteria The...	03/01/2014
Ingrowing toenail treatm	Hits:1
Studies Results Comment Why are ingrowing toenails a source of humour? As one Bandolier confidant said - 'they hurt'. Ingrowing toenails predominantly affect the big toe, often in adolescents and young adults because they have sweaty...	03/01/2014