CDC Picks Thimerosal Researcher for Vaccines, Autism Study
On Mar. 7, 2025, the Associated Press and other media sources reported that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is planning to conduct a study to determine possible links between vaccines and autism. In a prepared statement, the DHHS vaccine policymaking agency said that the “CDC will leave no stone unturned in its […]
Yale Study Links COVID Shots to “Alarming” Immune System Condition
While many medical professionals hail the COVID-19 shots as a life-saving breakthrough and key to ending the pandemic, reports of long term health problems similar to those suffered by people who were infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus have persisted since the COVID biological was rolled out nationwide in early 2021. A wide range of clinical […]
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 […]
NIH Cuts Funding for “Vaccine Hesitancy” Research
Certain areas of research funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is being reduced or discontinued with the justification that these areas no longer align with the agency’s current priorities. One of the areas in which funding will be cut is millions of dollars in NIH grants for studying vaccine hesitancy and strategies […]
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 […]
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 […]