Five Vaccines Added to DoD’s “Standing Orders” Program
Story Highlights Standing orders authorize non-physician health professionals (NPHP) to provide patient care following protocols often based on national clinical guidelines, including administering federally recommended vaccines without a physician’s pre-screening examination prior to vaccination. Civilians…
CONTINUE READINGChildren Given Flu Shots in School Classrooms
Story Highlights School districts have partnered with a for-profit corporation, CareDox/Healthy Schools, to provide students with free influenza vaccinations in…
Medical Freedom & Vaccine Choice Just “Phony Nonsense”?
In an opinion piece in the Houston Chronicle titled “Why I’m standing up to the anti-vaccine nonsense,” pediatrician and vaccine…
Pediatricians Turn Well Baby Checkups Into Vaccine Battlegrounds
I remember when I took my first-born baby to the pediatrician for his first checkup 40 years ago. Like most…
Professor Says Parents Have No Right to Refuse Vaccines for Their Children
In a recent video commentary published in Medscape, New York University professor Arthur L. Caplan, PhD offered his views on…
UK Health Officials Hide Results of Major Vaccine Trials
Public Health England (PHE), an agency within the United Kingdom’s Department of Health and Social Care, has failed to publish the…
Soft-Pedaling the Unintended Consequences of Vaccination
There are a few terms that are commonly used to describe an undesired outcome of a vaccination. Perhaps the most…