Open Letter to Students and Parents about Vaccines
Dear Students and Parents: Another school year is upon us. For many people, including students, the Covid era seems to be over. That confusing, frightening, and traumatic time finally feels like a thing of the past. However, the harms we suffered linger on. The educational losses and the mental health trauma suffered by millions of […]
Follow the Science: A New Clarion Call
We’ve never spent more money on health insurance, health care, hospitals, and medicine—but are growing sicker and sicker with chronic diseases. Even worse, our medical professionals seem not to notice or care about the obvious. Why? Visit your average doctor—when you can get in for an appointment in a reasonable time period, which is growing harder—and […]
Merck Sued Again for Gardasil Vaccine Adverse Events
The number of lawsuits filed in North Carolina against Merck for its HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine, Gardasil, continue to mount and allege the company did not prove the vaccine was safe and effective before marketing it as an anti-cancer vaccine. Since 2022, almost 200 lawsuits alleging serious injury after receiving Gardasil have been consolidated in […]
U.S. Taxpayer Funded Initiative Trains Dentists to Push HPV Vaccine
In recent years, government health agencies, cancer societies, as well as the American Dental Association (ADA), have attempted to recruit dentists to advocate for patients to get the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to prevent oral cancers. An HPV Vaccine Roundtable initiative, funded largely by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), advises dentists […]
More U.S. Parents Reject HPV Vaccine Over Safety Concerns
A growing number of parents in the U.S. are choosing not to vaccinate their adolescent children for human papillomavirus (HPV), according to a new study published in the June 2023 edition of the journal Pediatrics.1 The study identified HPV vaccine uptake trends in an effort to develop strategies to combat increasing vaccine hesitancy. The researchers […]
“The Big Catch-Up”
In response to the marked decline in childhood vaccination rates around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic of the past three years, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and other organizations are partnering in […]