The Pertussis Vaccine Blame Game
It is a primitive bacterial vaccine licensed in 1914. It has not been given to babies in America for 20 years. It is the vaccine that had brain damaged so many children and caused so many vaccine injury lawsuits that Big Pharma used it to blackmail Congress into giving vaccine manufacturers a partial product liability […]
Gardasil: One Mom’s Story
She had gotten the Gardasil shot on June 3rd and… her dad had taken her… a few days later she was telling me, she said… mom, I feel really tired. And she also said, I feel like dizzy when I stand up. She had never complained of anything like that before. But I didn’t think […]
ACIP Voting On a New Vaccine
Is there any comment on using this vaccine at the same time as other adjuvented vaccines? We have no data to make a recommendation one way or the other. So just to sort of put this in context of other vaccines, while pre-clinical studies were not done using this vaccine simultaneously, our general approach to […]
Doctors, Money, and Conflicts of Interest
I’m a doctor. My father’s a doctor. My colleagues are doctors. The people I train are doctors. Lots and lots of my friends are doctors. But that doesn’t mean that doctors sometimes are not blind to certain issues, like their own financial conflicts of interest. Sometimes we have to poke doctors with a stick. That’s […]
When Autism Grows Up
When we were told that there was some behavior problems that he had and he might be autistic, I never felt that he was going to be someone that couldn’t grow and be on his own. I’m a bagger. I bag groceries for customers. Sometimes I help take them out to the car. I was […]
China Vaccine Scandal
[T]his is an unfortunate case because there are now 252,000 doses of a DPT vaccine—the diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus vaccine—that have been released to the Center for Disease Control in Shandong, which is responsible for 100 million people and their public health. And, unfortunately, while we know that these vaccines are substandard and may not be […]