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 […]
COVID Antiviral Paxlovid Provides “No Significant Benefit” to Vaccinated Seniors
Paxlovid, the antiviral drug that became the go-to treatment for SARS-CoV-2 infections during the pandemic, did not reduce hospitalizations or death in older adults who had gotten COVID-19 shots, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) last month. Researchers who tested the COVID treatment Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir-ritonavir) on […]
Study Finds Sudden Infant Deaths Have Increased
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) last month has found that rates of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) increased 12 percent during 2020-2022, during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. SIDS is the unexplained death of an otherwise healthy infant, typically occurring in babies under one year old. […]
Antibiotic Use Linked to Chronic Disease, Colon Cancer
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that antibiotics have serious unintended downstream health effects including colon cancer and chronic diseases such as allergic, autoimmune, metabolic, and psychiatric disease.1 A research article published in the journal Gut Microbes outlines several major studies linking antibiotics to adverse health outcomes, potential causes, and what health care providers should […]
FDA Approves GSK’s 5-in-1 Meningococcal Vaccine
On Feb. 14, 2025, British pharmaceutical and biotechnology company GSK plc announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved its 5-in-1 meningococcal vaccine PENMENVY for licensure and use in individuals aged 10 through 25 years. The vaccine targets five major serogroups of the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis (A, B, C, W, and Y), which […]
Measles Outbreak in Texas
There has been a lot of media attention given lately to the measles outbreak in Texas. The outbreak now accounts for 90 cases—77 of them involving children under the age of 18. It has been reported that “most of those infected” either have not be vaccinated for measles or have an “unknown vaccination status,” while […]
