FDA Approves Medical Device to Treat Children With ADHD
Story Highlights The FDA recently approved a medical device known as called Monarch external Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation System (eTNS) for treating children diagnosed with ADHD. The methodology of the clinical trial used to test the safety and efficacy of the electrical nerve stimulation device was flawed, which has raised concerns about safety. There are glaring […]
How Come the “Settled Science” People Keep Moving the Goalposts?
How often have you read or heard, “Vaccine science is settled”? The mantra is repeated so often by physicians, public health officials, the media and legislators that it’s hard to argue with it. But the reality is that science is never settled, because it’s a process, not an endpoint. It’s an evolutionary endeavor, and so […]
Talking Trash About Parents at the World Health Assembly 2019
More than 4,000 representatives from 194 member states gathered in Geneva, Switzerland during May 20-28, 2019 to discuss human-related health issues at the 72nd World Health Assembly, a meeting of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) top decision-making body.1 On the second day of the meeting, the U.S. and 14 other governments sponsored an event “Promoting […]
Eight Chinese Babies Die After Hepatitis B Vaccination
There are calls within China for tough action to be taken after up to eight babies died following vaccination against hepatitis B. As investigations continue, authorities already suspended use of the vaccine at the center of the scandal produced by the Chinese drug manufacturer BioKangtai. Only a few areas bought this vaccine, says this official, […]
Children in Two States Get Vaccine Strain Measles from MMR Vaccine
Media sources in Michigan reported in April 2019 that two children in the state who were believed to have measles turned out not to have disease, after all. Genotype lab testing of the measles virus identified in the children’s blood was conducted and it was found to match the attenuated (weakened) vaccine strain measles virus […]
Market for Breathing Machines Alive and Well
The market for “iron lung” machines is estimated at well over $2 billion annually. Of course, the machines are no longer referred to as iron lungs, because the technology has advanced and they’re now called “ventilators.” Several studies have been published during the past year estimating the annual value of the market for ventilators and […]