Artigo Revisado por pares

Cleveland Clinic to re-evaluate its Wellness Institute after director questions vaccines

2017; BMJ; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.j253

ISSN

0959-8138

Autores

Owen Dyer,

Tópico(s)

Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare

Resumo

The renowned US hospital the Cleveland Clinic is to re-examine the provision of alternative medicine services at its Wellness Institute after the institute’s medical director suggested a link between vaccines and autism in a blog published by local news sites. Homeopathic products will no longer be sold at the site, and other services will be re-evaluated to determine whether they meet the clinic’s goal of providing evidence based medicine, a spokeswoman for the hospital said. The Wellness Institute’s medical director and chief operating officer, Daniel Neides, a family doctor, sparked an online uproar when he wrote in a regular blog last week, “What I will stand up and scream is that newborns without intact immune systems and …

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