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 […]
Microbiologist Howard Urnovitz: Each Person’s Unique Ancestral Genes Interact with Viruses to Cause Chronic Disease
He calls it “The Golden Age of Virology,” a time for science to acknowledge that Koch’s Postulates1 published in 1884 and used to identify and associate bacteria, fungi and parasites with disease, cannot be used to associate diseases with viruses, which were not discovered until later.2 “Viruses do not act alone to cause disease,” says […]
Pfizer Settles Anti-Kickback Violation Claims for Nearly $60 Million
Pfizer, Inc., on behalf of its wholly owned subsidiary Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has paid almost $60 million dollars to settle claims that the pharmaceutical giant engaged in a kickback scheme from 2020 through 2022. Biohaven was charged with knowingly causing false claims to be submitted to Medicare and other health care programs, as well as […]
Study Finds Sudden Infant Deaths Have Increased
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) last month has found that rates of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) increased 12 percent during 2020-2022, during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. SIDS is the unexplained death of an otherwise healthy infant, typically occurring in babies under one year old. […]
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 […]
Military Veteran Denied Organ Transplant in Ohio Over COVID Shot Status
An Ohio veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces battling congestive heart failure is fighting for his life and for change in heart transplant policies after being denied a heart transplant because he refused to get a COVID-19 shot. Fifty-four-year-old Ken Long was diagnosed with heart failure a year ago after falling ill during a family […]