A Cleveland Clinic consultancy has agreed to help a hospital in one of Pennsylvania’s most medically underserved regions to design and staff a treatment center for autistic children.Highlands Hospital, a community hospital in Connellsville, Pa., has hired Cleveland Clinic Autism Development Solutions to help it open an autism center next year, according to a [...]

A recently introduced Senate bill called the “Minnesota Expanded Healthcare Practices Act” seeks to preserve access to alternative medicine. S.B. No. 3419 defines expanded health services as those “that are not generally considered to be within the prevailing minimum standards of care of a profession.” The bill sets loose limitations on when alternative medicine practices [...]

But will a study like this do anything in the battle between medical knowledge and fear over vaccines? It’s hard to believe so, considering the mountains of evidence already about autism and vaccines.