The Truth About Pet Vaccines
Needless to say that if your children are vaccinated, you eventually stop. Dogs and cats receive vaccine almost always at six, eight, 10, 12, 14, 16 weeks, a booster at one year of age and then annually thereafter, which ends up being a tremendous amount of vaccine over a lifetime. Not to mention that once […]
Is Merck’s Measles Vaccine Monopoly a Cause for Concern?
First, how did Merck become the country’s sole supplier of these measles vaccines, and is that a problem? Well, is it a problem depends on who you talk to. But Merck became the sole supplier because the vaccine market is highly concentrated. It’s incredibly expensive to make vaccines. It takes a lot of time to […]
My Son Was Harmed by the DPT Shot | Barbara Loe Fisher
I was a first-time mom. [I had] a little boy in 1980, when I took him in for a fourth DPT shot. And back then, parents hadn’t been told anything about vaccines, the fact that they could cause reactions, injuries, deaths. So he actually had DPT and oral polio vaccine that day, and within hours […]
Harvard Lawyer’s Vaccine Injured Son
I’m also a proud father of a severely vaccine injured child. I’d like to tell you, a minute or two, about my boy. He was our first-born, perfectly healthy at birth, hitting all of his milestones. As first time parents, we were very conscious about hitting all of his pediatrician visits and staying on schedule. […]
Metcalfe Informed Consent Press Conference
We’re here today to talk about informed consent protection. … House Bill 286 is legislation I’ve introduced to ensure that children still have access to pediatric care and cannot be denied care because their parents are exercising their parental rights and doing their own due diligence in making what they believe is the best informed […]
Pharmaceutical Fraud
The story I’m going to tell today begins just before the turn of the century. The year is 1999 and Merck has brought a new pain killer onto the market called Vioxx. According to a paper published in the British Medical Journal, since the early development of Vioxx some scientists at Merck were concerned that […]