Swedish Study Investigates Food Allergy Increases in Children But Big Questions Remain

An estimated 1 in 13 children in the United States now have food allergies, a 50 percent increase in the incidence of food allergies between 1997 and 2011. Food allergy researchers have suggested there are several factors contributing to this increase, including shifts toward more processed diets, insufficient levels of vitamin D from limited sun […]
CDC Picks Thimerosal Researcher for Vaccines, Autism Study

On Mar. 7, 2025, the Associated Press and other media sources reported that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is planning to conduct a study to determine possible links between vaccines and autism. In a prepared statement, the DHHS vaccine policymaking agency said that the “CDC will leave no stone unturned in its […]
CDC Plans to Conduct Study on Reported Link Between Vaccines and Autism

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is planning to conduct a study to explore persistent reports that there is a link between vaccines and autism, according to a Mar. 7, 2025 report first published by Reuters1 and followed by The Washington Post on Mar. 7, 2025.2 A Department of Health and Human Services […]
The Science and Politics of Eradicating Measles

In this special report on measles and measles vaccine, NVIC Co-founder and President Barbara Loe Fisher asks, What’s Going On With Measles? and reviews the history of measles and measles vaccine in the U.S. As measles outbreaks are being reported in the U.S. in March 2025, she reveals the facts about the vaccine’s risks and failures […]
Microbiologist Howard Urnovitz: Each Person’s Unique Ancestral Genes Interact with Viruses to Cause Chronic Disease

He calls it “The Golden Age of Virology,” a time for science to acknowledge that Koch’s Postulates1 published in 1884 and used to identify and associate bacteria, fungi and parasites with disease, cannot be used to associate diseases with viruses, which were not discovered until later.2 “Viruses do not act alone to cause disease,” says […]
DHHS Secretary RFK, Jr. and USDA Secretary Both Say “No” to Bird Flu Vaccine for Chickens

Opinion | Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr announced on Mar. 4, 2025 that the avian influenza (“bird flu”) vaccine should not be given to chickens in the U.S. based on emerging evidence that injecting poultry with avian influenza virus (AIV) vaccine could lead to mutations accelerating evolution of the animal […]