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The Make America Healthy Again movement, also known as MAHA, accomplished something unusual in American politics. In one fell swoop, it got millions of people to care, all at once, about what is in our food, our water, and our medicine. In a nation riddled with illness and disease, the health-driven energy behind MAHA is…Continue reading MAHA: The Gap Between the Promise and the Paperwork
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Making the rounds of shock on social media has been this year’s advertising from CHOP’s (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) “Close Your Eyes, We’ll Immunize!” Program. Active since 2023 across CHOP campuses for patients under general anesthesia or sedation, medical teams administer vaccines to children after induction – the transition phase where a patient is taken…Continue reading Medicine’s New Priorities: Flu Shots During Surgery and Climate Rules in the OR
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On October 12, with little to no media coverage, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Political Declaration on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response. The vote was 153 in favor and 3 against. The United States, Israel, and Argentina voted no, and New Zealand and Paraguay abstained. The scant headlines moved on within a day,…Continue reading The UN’s “Non-Binding” Pandemic Declaration: Sequence In, Shot Out
The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it will expand its recall of blood pressure medicines to include four lots of losartan after they were found to contain a cancer-causing chemical. This is the fifth recall in 2019; over the past year, dozens of batches of medications used to treat hypertension have been recalled…Continue reading FDA expands blood pressure drug recall for fifth time this year
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By Jefferey Jaxen 2019 has seen a rapid acceleration of the Overton window with respect to the conversation, as well as the political and social moves, surrounding the vaccine debate. The Overton window is a term for the range of ideas tolerated in public discourse. Before California’s Senate Bill 277 passed, few in the state…Continue reading America’s Social & Medical Turning Point
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National Institutes of Health keeps scientists critical of clinical trial from responding to U.S. agency inquiry The National Institutes of Health, the U.S. government’s premier health research agency, is refusing to allow two of its doctors to respond to government investigators looking into the quality of a continuing clinical trial of new blood-infection treatments on…Continue reading NIH Blocks Two Doctors From Speaking Out to Investigators
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By Jeremy R. Hammond In the mainstream discourse about the subject of vaccines, one issue that is never directly raised is the right to informed consent. This right is one of the most fundamental ethics in medicine, and yet the government and media treat it as uniquely irrelevant when it comes to this one particular…Continue reading How Public Vaccine Policy Violates Our Right to Informed Consent
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by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, parents whose children have been injured by vaccines are being demonized and discriminated against for speaking publicly about what happened to their children after vaccination.1 There is no other minority in America being subjected to public humiliation and censorship for simply speaking the truth.2 Pediatricians are also cruelly bullying and coercing…Continue reading No Mercy for Mothers Or Their Vaccine Injured Children
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“A prominent pediatrician and medical researcher in the Philippines has been indicted over the failed—and many say premature—introduction of Dengvaxia, a vaccine against dengue that was yanked from the Philippine market in 2017 because of safety issues. If convicted of accusations leveled at her by the national Department of Justice (DOJ), Rose Capeding, 63, former…Continue reading Dengue vaccine fiasco leads to criminal charges for researcher in the Philippines
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