Guillain-Barré Syndrome Warning Added to Shingrix Vaccine in Australia
In February 2024, Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the country’s national regulatory authority for drugs and, initiated an investigation into a potential association between GSK plc’s Shingrix shingles vaccine, Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), which causes inflammation and damage to the nerves, that may include paralysis.1 The investigation was prompted by two reports of GBS following Shingrix […]
FDA Bans Red No. 3 Used in Many Processed Foods
The artificial coloring known as Red Dye No. 3 has been banned in cosmetics in the U.S. for 35 years, but it has been allowed to stay in food and medicine. The synthetic dye that gives foods a cherry red color is an ingredient in more than 9,200 products on store shelves in the country. […]
WHO Declares HMPV Outbreak in China a Global Health Emergency
Are we looking at the early stages of what will become yet another declaration of a global pandemic? The World Health Organization (WHO) last week declared that an outbreak of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in China is a global health emergency. At a press conference in Geneva on Jan. 2, 2025, WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus announced […]
Protestors Target Kellogg’s Over Cereal Dyes
It has been nearly a decade since the cereal brand giant Kellogg’s announced that it would remove artificial colors and ingredients from its cereals and other food products by the year 2018. Last month, more than a thousand people1 gathered outside of Kellogg’s headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan to deliver petitions with over 400,000 signatures […]
I Was a Super-Fit Mum-of-Two Who Ran Triathlons—Until I Got the Second COVID Vaccine
Initially, I didn’t hesitate to get the vaccine, and I thought I was doing the right thing to do so we could all move on. I’m not an anti-vaxxer, I’ve had vaccines before. It’s never been a problem… I thought it was the right thing to do. I had my first Pfizer vaccine in 2021. […]
Triathlete Who Suffered Torn Coronary Artery Days After COVID Shots Undergoes More Surgery
In mid-2021, triathlete and fitness instructor Ingi Doyle of Queensland, Australia received two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech Comirnaty mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) COVID-19 biologic. The first shot on June 12, 2021 left her with a sore arm. After the second shot on July 4, she developed a severe adverse reaction that resulted in an aortic […]