Friday, July 07, 2006

Judge: suit lacks evidence linking mercury, autism

Judge: suit lacks evidence linking mercury, autism
Associated Press

Raleigh, N.C. - Parental advocates fighting to prove a link between mercury-containing vaccines and autism had a setback Thursday when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against a producer of a treatment given pregnant women.

U.S. District Court Judge James Beaty determined that a mother of an autistic child "failed to present sufficient evidence" that would suggest a link between RhoGAM and autism. The anonymous mother had sued producer Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.

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