Forced Vaccine Lawsuit in North Carolina Allowed to Move Forward
The State Supreme Court in North Carolina has ruled that a mother may sue the public school system and a physician’s group for giving her son the COVID-19 shot without her informed consent. In a split 5-2 decision, the state’s highest court overturned the trial and Appellate Court decisions that denied the mother’s right to […]
NC Court Sides With Merck in Class Action Gardasil Vaccine Injury Lawsuit
The District Court in North Carolina sided with Merck & Co. and granted a summary judgment motion to dismiss plaintiff’s failure to warn claims in ongoing litigation between the pharmaceutical giant and young women injured by the Gardasil vaccine. The lawsuit alleged that Merck covered up the risks associated with the company’s blockbuster vaccine which […]
HHS Plans to Close FDA Loophole that Allows Food Companies to “Self-Affirm” Safety of Ingredients
On Mar. 10, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revise a long-exploited loophole that allows food companies to “self-affirm” that their ingredients are safe.1 2 The FDA’s Generally Recognized as Safe, or GRAS, food designation was created by Congress in […]
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Recalls 1.5 Million Bottles of Generic ADHD Drug
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a subsidiary of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. of Mumbai, India, is recalling 1.476 million bottles of a generic Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) medication called atomoxetine from the U.S market, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).1 Eli Lilly had once marketed the branded version of the drug, Strattera, but stopped […]
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 […]
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 […]