CDC Awards $1.6 Million Grant to Study Hepatitis B Vaccination in Newborns
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded a $1.6 million federal grant to Danish researchers to study hepatitis B vaccination in newborns, with a stated focus on determining the optimal timing and delivery of the vaccine routinely administered in the U.S. to infants on their first day after birth. Researchers from […]
CDC Will Offer Contract to Investigate Link Between Autism and Vaccination
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) intends to award a contract to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to investigate links between autism prevalence and vaccination according to a notice on the federal website. The notice, posted in September 2025, indicated that the CDC planned to issue the fixed-price contract to the New York […]
CDC Changes Hepatitis B Vaccine Birth Dose Recommendation for Newborns
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stopped recommending that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, marking a significant shift in a policy that has been in place for decades. The change followed a vote by members at a Dec. 5, 2025 meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization […]
Former CDC Director Says mRNA COVID-19 Shots Should Be Pulled from Market
The former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Robert Redfield, MD, is calling for Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA COVID-19 shots to be removed from the market. “I really would like to see the mRNA vaccine use curtailed, and personally, I’d like to see it eliminated, because I think there’s too […]
Data on Myocarditis Risk from COVID-19 Shots Hidden
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH recently said in a prepared statement that the Biden administration withheld data on heart inflammation risks from the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. The statement was made less than a week after the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH confirmed that at least […]
U.S. Stillbirth Rates 17 Percent Higher Than CDC Reporting
A significant number of stillbirths are happening in pregnancies the medical system labels as safe and at a higher rate in the U.S. than previously reported, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Mass General Brigham. The study, published in JAMA on Oct. 27, 2025, […]