San Francisco Transit Workers Awarded $7.8M for Denial of Religious Exemption to COVID Shots
A federal court in San Francisco, California has confirmed a ruling granting $7.8 million to Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) employees who were fired for failing to get COVID-19 shots.1 In October 2024, a federal jury awarded the transit workers $1.3 million each in a class action lawsuit in which a half a dozen transit […]
Hospitals Give Pain Control Drugs to Women During Childbirth, Then Report Them for Illicit Drug Use
Fentanyl and other drugs administered by health care professionals during childbirth can show up in toxicology reports done on the mother or baby. Not only can this presence be shocking to mothers who do not realize the drugs have the ability to cross the placenta to reach their babies, but many women are being reported […]
COVID Shot Injury Claims Rarely Being Paid by U.S. Government
A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) showed that claims made under the Health and Human Services (HHS) Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) during the first few years of the COVID-19 pandemic have risen 27 percent since the program started receiving claims in 2009. However, only three percent of the COVID shot injury […]
AAPS Sues to Stop U.S. Government from Electronically Tracking Certain American Workers
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a pro-patient association of physicians and surgeons, has filed a preliminary injunction in Texas in an attempt to stop a government mandate compelling Americans to disclose personal information to a national and international electronic database.1 The new mandate would demand that managers of small medical practices, political […]
Michigan Woman Awarded $12 Million After Being Fired for Refusing COVID Shot
A former Blue Cross Blue Shield employee was recently awarded $12 million by a federal jury in Detroit when she sued the insurance company for religious discrimination. Lisa Domski had worked at Blue Cross Blue Shield for almost 40 years when she was denied a religious exemption to the employee COVID-19 shot mandate.1 2 Although […]
Pharmaceutical Companies Pay Billions of Dollars to Influence Medical Journal Reviewers
More than half of peer reviewers for four of the top medical journals received $1.06 billion in payments from the pharmaceutical industry during 2020-2022 alone, according to a research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The payments went to peer reviewers for four of the leading scientific journals—JAMA, the British […]