The program and its popular helplines were shut down in April after Sick Kids said it couldn’t find funding to continue the service, a decision that followed a series of scandals. “This was an oversight and multiple departments within Sick Kids are working to put procedures in place to prevent this type of occurrence in the future,” she said. “Sick Kids has alerted the public and the medical community that the information currently on Motherisk.org is not endorsed by, and in no way represents, Sick Kids or the former Motherisk Helplines. Aryal said the owners are taking steps to make it clear Sick Kids is not associated with the new website. But in 2018, Sick Kids announced a review of Koren’s research after the Star flagged possible problems in more than 400 of his research papers.

Source: thestar December 04, 2019 22:30 UTC