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/ 18 November 2011
Childcarers and educators say the same thing: early neglect of children is catastophic for later learning.
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/ 25 February 2011
But some patient groups denounced the trial in its entirety.
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The <i>Lancet</i> has formally retracted a paper that caused an international battle over links between childhood vaccine MMR and autism.