Senators Investigate Big Pharma’s “New Sales Scheme” Tied to Telehealth Companies
On July 17, 2025, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, along with Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Peter Welch of Vermont, released a new investigative report titled “Big Pharma’s New Sales Scheme: Expanding Patient Access or a Virtual Pill Mill? A Direct-To-Consumer Telehealth Platform Investigation”.1 Over the past nine months, […]
Study Finds Lower Conception Rates Among Women Who Got mRNA COVID Shots
A recent large-scale population study conducted in the Czech Republic and published this month in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine has found that women who received a COVID-19 biologic prior to conception were significantly less likely to achieve a successful pregnancy compared to their unvaccinated peers. According to authors of the […]
Push for National Bird Flu Vaccine Program as USDA Points to Falling Egg Prices After Gains in Biosecurity Containment
Publicity about avian influenza (H5N1) infecting chickens, turkeys and cows in the United States1 and globally has been widespread for several years as fears about the possibility of bird flu epidemics among humans have led to calls for acceleration of development and use of animal and human bird flu vaccines.2 3 4 5 In February […]
Novel “Inverse Vaccines” Could Soon Target Autoimmune Diseases
A novel class of therapies that are labeled vaccines—known as ‘inverse vaccines’—are designed to treat autoimmune disorders and could be made available in just a few years. In January, Swiss biotech company Anokion—which focuses on improving treatments and health outcomes for individuals suffering with autoimmune disorders—announced promising early human trials of inverse “vaccines” targeting celiac […]
Clinical Trials Now Required for Annual COVID Shots Given to Healthy Adults
On May 20, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that new clinical trials will be required to approve annual COVID-19 booster shots for healthy adults under age 65. In a joint editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine, FDA commissioner Marty Makary, MD and the director of the FDA’s Center […]
COVID-19 Misleading Advertising Campaign Lawsuit Against Pfizer Challenges PREP Act Liability Shield
A United States district judge has remanded a lawsuit filed by the state of Kansas against Pfizer, Inc. back to state court. This move may prevent the Public Readiness and Preparedness (PREP) Act from shielding the pharmaceutical giant from liability for Its misleading advertising campaign promoting its mRNA COVID-19 shot (Comirnaty).1 The Kansas attorney general, […]