There’s No Need to Ban These Vaccines
Opinion | Individual sovereignty means that people can make their own choices, based on their own assessment of risk. It means that others can advise them, but not compel them. It is a basis for modern human rights and natural law. Public health practitioners like to voice support for these principles, but also really feel […]
New York Repeals COVID Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers
New York health officials have repealed the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers. This state public health law reversal came only minutes before oral arguments in a lawsuit brought by health care workers challenging the COVID vaccine mandate were set to be heard before the New York state Appeals Court in Rochester, NY.1 New […]
Most Authors of Psychopharmacology Textbooks Have Financial Conflicts of Interest
A 2022 study published in Community Mental Health Journal examined nine commonly used psychopharmacology textbooks to identify financial conflicts of interest of their authors and editors. The findings showed that two-thirds of psychopharmacology textbooks authors or editors received personal financial payments from pharmaceutical companies. Unlike most medical journals that require authors to disclose their financial […]
Homebirthed Newborn in Texas Forcibly Taken Away from Parents
In a case that highlights the growing power struggle between doctors, government officials and parents over medical treatment of children, a Black couple was finally reunited with their newborn daughter more than three weeks after the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services placed her in foster care over a disagreement about how the infant […]
Health Care Workers Offered Money to Raise COVID Shot Uptakes
U.S. Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky has released a document titled “Vaccine Provider Incentive Program” drafted by health insurance provider Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s for Kentucky-based health care workers that outlines monetary incentives for convincing patients to get COVID-19 shots in 2021 during the coronavirus pandemic.1 Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s “Vaccine […]
U.S. Government Pockets $400 Million from Moderna mRNA COVID Shots
A recently disclosed contract reveals that the U.S. government received millions of dollars in licensing fees from Moderna, Inc. The company paid the National Institutes of Health (NIH) $400 million to use NIH’s spike protein technology in Moderna’s Spikevax messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 biologic.1 2 The large payment was part of a royalty-bearing license agreement […]