Use of Vaccination Metrics in Physician Payment Programs Discouraged by CMS
A new State Health Official (SHO) letter from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)—the federal agency that oversees Medicaid and sets quality and payment standards for state health programs nationwide—provides new federal guidance that challenges a long-standing federal policy financially incentivizing physicians to vaccinate their patients, particularly children.1 CMS announced on Dec. 30, […]
CDC Awards $1.6 Million Grant to Study Hepatitis B Vaccination in Newborns
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded a $1.6 million federal grant to Danish researchers to study hepatitis B vaccination in newborns, with a stated focus on determining the optimal timing and delivery of the vaccine routinely administered in the U.S. to infants on their first day after birth. Researchers from […]
Causal Link Found Between COVID Vaccine and Six Autoimmune Disorders
A recently published peer-reviewed scoping review of 109 studies identified consistent patterns of reported associations between COVID-19 vaccination and six autoimmune disorders, including multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Graves’ disease, and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. The authors reported that, “across the 109 studies, relapses or flares in patients with autoimmune disorders were […]
Former CDC Director Says mRNA COVID-19 Shots Should Be Pulled from Market
The former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Robert Redfield, MD, is calling for Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA COVID-19 shots to be removed from the market. “I really would like to see the mRNA vaccine use curtailed, and personally, I’d like to see it eliminated, because I think there’s too […]
U.S. Stillbirth Rates 17 Percent Higher Than CDC Reporting
A significant number of stillbirths are happening in pregnancies the medical system labels as safe and at a higher rate in the U.S. than previously reported, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Mass General Brigham. The study, published in JAMA on Oct. 27, 2025, […]
European Medicines Agency Issues Support for New Recombinant Pertussis Vaccine
A new pertussis vaccine, which has been designed to be used as a booster and for vaccinating pregnant women, has received “positive regulatory support” from the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP). Marketed under the name VacPertagen, the recombinant pertussis vaccine—formulated with genetically engineered proteins rather than inactivated whole […]