The Bulk of Credible Science Finds Vaccines ‘Can and Do’ Cause Autism

It’s amazing how many media figures remain so uninformed on the proven links between vaccines and autism. Without knowing the subject thoroughly, they keep falsely claiming the links have been “debunked.” Quite the opposite. I understand, because I was surprised, too, at what I learned when I was first assigned to cover the subject of […]
Pharmaceutical Companies Pay Billions of Dollars to Influence Medical Journal Reviewers

More than half of peer reviewers for four of the top medical journals received $1.06 billion in payments from the pharmaceutical industry during 2020-2022 alone, according to a research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The payments went to peer reviewers for four of the leading scientific journals—JAMA, the British […]
Monkeypox Fear Fest: Is Smallpox Vaccine on Its Way Back?

This article is an excerpt from a longer fully referenced report by NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher on Mutated Monkeypox Outbreaks and the Anticipated Return of Smallpox Vaccine, which can be read on NVIC.org. A day before the July 4, 2024 holiday, Business Insider published an article warning that “Experts are racing to […]
Study Finds Mask Wearing Reduced the Risk of COVID by Only Five Percent

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, societies throughout the world have been divided on the efficacy of face coverings to prevent influenza or influenza-like-illness (ILI), such as COVID. However, research conducted by the independent Cochrane, a charitable medical research organization based in London, England appears to have put to rest this longstanding dispute. Published earlier this year, […]
Health Care Staff Shortages a “National Emergency”

Hospitals and other health care facilities in the United States are suffering a workforce shortage, a crisis that was brewing before the COVID-19 pandemic but has only been amplified since then. The American Hospital Association (AHA) calls the shortages a “national emergency” and, although it is most acute in the nursing field, the effects are […]
Study Finds 25 Percent of Hospitalizations Result in Health Care Related Injuries

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that hospital related adverse events were identified in nearly one in four hospital admissions, and that approximately one in four of the events were preventable.1 “The authors’ findings are disturbing. These findings suggest that the safety movement has, at best, stalled,” said Donald […]