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Saturday, March 27, 2004Dr Harris said: 'In the scandal over Dr Andrew Wakefield's failure to declare financial and conflicts of interest when his research group's article was published in the Lancet six years ago, the welfare of the children who were his research subjects seems to have been forgotten. 'In 1996, and subsequently, researchers in the inflammatory bowel disease study group subjected children to a battery of invasive tests.' These included upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, ileocolonoscopy, and lumbar punctures, he said. 'Those procedures are not trivial on consenting adults, let alone autistic children, who must be heavily sedated or even anaesthetised.' Dr Harris said that guidelines from the British Paediatric Association (now the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health), the General Medical Council, and other bodies at the time laid down that research where there was no likely clinical benefit to children should not involve anything worse than a blood test, and that prior approval from an ethics committee was necessary. posted by Sydney on 3/27/2004 08:36:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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