Multiple Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Studies Retracted After Data Manipulation Detected
The reputation of the prestigious Harvard University-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) in Boston, Massachusetts is at stake after seven studies were retracted from the medical literature and over 30 papers were subject to corrections due to errors. The allegations, which involve image duplications and manipulations in biomedical research, first surfaced in January 2024 when microbiologist […]
Princess Catherine is One of Many More Young Adults With Cancer
It is called early onset cancer. And the Princess of Wales, diagnosed at 42, is part of an unfortunate new trend of more and younger cancer cases. Yale, Harvard and the American Cancer Society each weighed in recently on this unthinkable twist in the toll of cancer. A record 2 million people in the United […]
Potential Pick for CDC Director Continues to Draw Criticism
In a public statement issued on June 16, 2023, President Biden announced his intent to name Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH to succeed Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The statement confirms a June 1 report by The Washington Post that the President was planning on picking Dr. Cohen, […]
Some Doctors Say mRNA COVID Shots May Cause Tinnitus
Following the publication of a study in the journal JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery on Feb. 24, 2022 that found a possible association between Pfizer/BioNTech’s Comirnaty messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 shot and sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL), The Vaccine Reaction published an article about the study. The retrospective cohort study involved 2 ,602, 557 patients in Israel […]
Homebirthed Newborn in Texas Forcibly Taken Away from Parents
In a case that highlights the growing power struggle between doctors, government officials and parents over medical treatment of children, a Black couple was finally reunited with their newborn daughter more than three weeks after the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services placed her in foster care over a disagreement about how the infant […]
U.S. Facing Severe Shortage of Infectious Disease Physicians
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a focus on the shortage of doctors opting to specialize in infectious disease. According to forecasts by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the United States will face a serious shortage of infectious disease doctors with estimates showing that that by 2035 there will […]
