“You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know.”
— William Wilberforce
The COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers in New York has been overturned by the New York Supreme Court, which found that Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York Department of Health exceeded their authority when implementing the vaccine mandate. Siding with the plaintiffs, Medical Professionals for Informed Consent, Judge Gerard Neri ruled that […]
According to a new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), type 2 diabetes is predicted to surge almost 700 percent in young people by 2060 if current trends continue. Currently, 37 million or one in 10 Americans suffer from diabetes.1 Type 2 diabetes occurs when the pancreas fails to produce […]
In early December 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna/NIAID mRNA COVID-19 shots to include administration of the Omicron COVID booster shots to children as young as six months old. The action allows everyone over the age of six months to get the […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the preliminary injunction against the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contract workers. The 2-1 decision by the court in New Orleans directly affects Indiana, Louisiana and Mississippi, while half of the other states have had their mandates blocked or partly blocked by other […]
A large retrospective cohort study conducted by researchers in Germany and the University of Virginia compared the incidence of shingles among individuals who did and did not get a Covid-19 shot and found a statistically significant difference providing evidence for an association between Covid vaccinations and increased risk for developing shingles or herpes zoster (HZ). […]
Parents in New Zealand temporarily lost medical custody of their four-month-old son when the Auckland High Court granted temporary medical custody to treating pediatricians after Health New Zealand, which manages the country’s health service and hospitals, took the parents to court seeking guardianship. The parents had refused an operation requiring a blood transfusion for their […]
Monoclonal antibodies, which are synthetic versions of antibodies that are produced in a lab, appear to have lost effectiveness against COVID-19 disease as new variants of the virus emerge. Previously touted as the top-of-the-line outpatient treatment by public health officials and many clinicians, monoclonal antibodies have fallen out of favor as outpatient treatment for patients […]
There have been a number of reports published in the medical literature describing cases of thyroid autoimmunity developing in individuals, who have received different types of COVID-19 shots.1 Cases occur in individuals who have never been diagnosed with a thyroid disorder and in those whose thyroid disorders worsen after COVID vaccinations. The thyroid is an […]
Judge Ralph Porzio, a Superior Court judge in Staten Island ordered that 16 city sanitation workers who lost their jobs for rejecting the COVID-19 shot mandate be reinstated for work and receive back pay. The ruling does not affect the city’s mandate or the other approximate 1,700 workers who were fired for failing to follow […]
A new law in California will punish doctors if they give their patients information related to COVID-19 that does not conform to “contemporary scientific consensus” and can be deemed “misinformation” or “disinformation” by the California Medical Board or California Osteopathic Board. Assembly Bill 2098 was sponsored by State Senator Richard Pan, a pediatrician, and signed […]