Is it time to look again at how psychiatric drugs work? Psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff thinks that if doctors change their view of the action of these drugs they may change their prescribing habits. She talks to Tessa Richards about her theory. In the UK, the controversy over the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine is finally waning; but in the US it is intensifying. Rebecca Coombes talks to Paul Offit - one of the country’s most vocal vaccine cheerleaders - about his new book, Autism’s False Prophets, and some of the public reaction to it. Birte Twisselmann takes us through the news.

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Vaccine disputes