Huston v. Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services

OPINION

MARGOLIS, Judge.

This case is before the Court on petitioner’s motion for review of the Special Master’s May 12, 1997 decision denying petitioner’s claim for compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (“Vaccine Act”), 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-l et seq. Special Master John F. Edwards denied petitioner compensation because he found that *634petitioner failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that a measles-mumps-rubella (“MMR”) vaccination caused him to suffer transverse myelitis. After carefully reviewing the record, and after hearing oral argument, the Court…