India High Court Halts Mandatory Measles-Rubella Vaccinations for Children
The Delhi government in India issued a notice on Dec. 19, 2018 making the measles and rubella (MR) vaccine mandatory for students between the ages of nine months and 15 years old without the consent of student or their parents.1 Parents received an email from the schools in Delhi informing them that all students would […]
Richard Halvorsen, MD on the Safety and Effectiveness of Vaccines
Vaccinations, in order to be used in the way they [are], need to be effective and they need to be safe. From an evidence-based point of view, they have failed on both counts. The huge reduction in diseases in this country, or the deaths from diseases in this country, happened long before vaccination. So the […]
Experimental Drugs and Vaccines on FDA’s Fast Track
Story Highlights The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) increasingly applies “fast-track” licensing status to experimental drugs and vaccines in the research pipeline. The accelerated pharmaceutical product licensing approval system was originally created to give patients suffering with serious diseases or disorders quick access to important new drugs where no—or inadequate—treatment options were otherwise available. The […]
‘Vaccines save lives, but all vaccines have side effects’
Vaccines have been credited with reducing some of the world’s most deadly diseases. But while the market for vaccinations has tripled since the turn of the century, representing over $25 billion a year and is expected to rise rapidly, questions over the safety and effectiveness of many of them remain. As new diseases develop or […]
Will AFM Cases Decline in 2019?
The number of confirmed cases of the polio-like disorder known as acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) reached 196 in 2018 in the United States. This was up significantly from 35 confirmed cases in 2017, 149 in 2016, 22 in 2015 and 120 in 2014. Strictly on the basis on this up-and-down annual cycle, some “experts” are […]
Drop in Measles Cases in 1960s Coincided With End of “Baby Boomer” Babies
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that, prior to the introduction of the first measles vaccine in the United States in 1963, it had been receiving nearly 500,000 reported cases of measles each year.1 2 3 4 That number is correct if you average the total number of measles cases reported during 1958-1962. […]