Big Pharma Pays Universities for Most Medical Research in U.S. Today
In the past, collaboration between scientists in academia and pharmaceutical companies was relatively uncommon. However, lately there has been a growing interest in developing financial partnerships between these two sectors. The drug industry’s funding patterns for academic research has shifted from handpicked projects on investigation of…
Comparative Diets to Address Chronic Inflammation
One of the hallmarks of many chronic diseases and disorders is unresolved inflammation in the body. Chronic inflammation can develop when the immune system’s normal inflammatory response to an implied threat continues unabated rather than turning off once the threat is gone. Chronic inflammation…
White House Backs Development of Heroin Vaccine
On Mar. 19, 2018, the White House announced the “President Donald J. Trump’s Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand.” The program will include “supporting research and development for a vaccine to prevent opioid addiction and non-addictive pain management options.”
Jury Still Out on Link Between Vaccines and Autism
“There is no link between vaccines and autism.” The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) clearly states it on its website. It is stated in nearly every newspaper or magazine article written, either by the author or by someone the author has quoted. In a recent article in HealthDay, postdoctoral fellow Ousseny Zerbo of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center was quoted as saying, “[W]e know through numerous scientific…
Just a Bunch of Crazy Mothers | Hillary Simpson
As a mother of a vaccine injured child, the hardest comment to hear from people is when they say, over and over again… “Don’t listen to them. They’re just a bunch of crazy mothers.” I am a mother. I am the one who knows the rhythm of my child’s heartbeat. I am the one who […]
Baylor’s Doc Hotez Bullies Parents of Vaccine Injured Children | Barbara Loe Fisher
Many years ago when I was having a conversation with a senior official at the Centers for Disease Control during a public engagement meeting, we explored the reason for why public health officials and parents of vaccine injured children were at such odds with each other. I said it was because we disagreed about the […]