FDA No Longer Requires Animal Testing Before Human Clinical Trials
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is no longer requiring pharmaceutical companies to test new drugs and biologics (vaccines) on animals prior to human clinical trials and licensure. This is a change that animal welfare advocates have been pushing for a long time. In December 2022, President Biden signed legislation ending a requirement that […]
U.S. Government is Funding Gain-of-Function Research in China to Make Bird Flu More Infectious
The U.S government is again funding gain-of-function (GoF) research with Chinese scientists to make a dangerous virus even more potent. This time it is with birds not bats. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) gave $1 million to fund risky research on bird flu viruses to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China; the […]
FDA Removes Informed Consent Protections from Some Human Clinical Trials
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule that authorizes some experimental human clinical trials to operate without first obtaining informed consent from participants. The new rule, which took effect on Jan. 22, 2024, allows clinical investigations that pose no more than a “minimal risk” and have appropriate safeguards to protect […]
Dopamine Neurons May Be Damaged by SARS-CoV-2
A new study provides evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus can infect brain cells responsible for mood, movement and stress, causing a disruption in dopamine production and leading to symptoms such as feeling sad and brain fog. The study, which was conducted by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, Columbia University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, […]
Court Orders CDC to Release Millions of Texts from V-Safe COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Monitoring System
A federal court in the Northern District of Texas has ordered officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to release approximately 7.8 million text responses from the V-safe COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring system following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Freedom Coalition of Doctors Choice.1 The Freedom […]
New Bat Virus Identified in Thailand
Eco-Health Alliance, the New York-based non-profit that used U.S. government money to fund gain- of-function research on coronaviruses in bats at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), research that has been implicated in the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, recently announced that a new virus has been identified in bats in Thailand.1 2 Dr. Peter […]