MMR in the clear
The combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine does not cause autism, according to the most powerful study yet. Researchers from London and Montreal studied 1200 children with autism and 4400 unaffected children. They found that the autistic youngsters were in fact slightly less likely to have been vaccinated.
Fruit fight
Papaya wars have broken out across the Pacific. In Hawaii on 10 September organic farmers protested against the discovery that half the papaya seeds tested from their fields contained genes from plantations of genetically modified papaya. Two days before, Thai fruit exporters had complained that European…
