NC Court Upholds Decision to Deny Access to COVID-19 Origins
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has sided with the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill allowing the university to withhold thousands of pages of genetic engineering research pertaining to the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The three-judge panel upheld the lower court’s decision to deny the public health interest group, U.S. Right […]
CDC Changes Recommendations for Six Childhood Vaccines
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced updates to the national childhood vaccine schedule involving six vaccines (rotavirus, COVID-19, influenza, meningococcal disease, hepatitis A, and hepatitis B) following a presidential memorandum directing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to review and revise its recommendations. The changes clarify which vaccines […]
Corruption in Big Pharma | John Abramson
When an article is peer-reviewed and published in a respected journal, people and doctors obviously assume that the peer reviewers have had access to the data and they’ve independently analyzed the data and they corroborate the findings in a manuscript that was submitted, or they give feedback to the authors and say we disagree with […]
Vaccine Safety Signals Were Detected Early. Why Did Regulators Wait So Long to Act?
We examine the timeline of vaccine safety signal detection and regulatory response using publicly available data from the United States Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United Kingdom Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, and the European Medicines Agency. We walk through how pharmacovigilance systems work, what happens when […]
Moderna Secures CEPI Funding for mRNA Bird Flu Vaccine After U.S. Cancels Funding
Moderna secured new funding from an international organization for its experimental mRNA bird flu vaccine after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) pulled back approximately $700 million in previously committed funding last year. The biotechnology company said that it will receive up to $54.3 million from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations […]
Female Physicians Experience Increasing Rates of Isolation, Burnout and Suicide Risk
The societal aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to surface in ways that extend beyond infection and mortality statistics, with one sector in particular yet to rebound after carrying much of the pandemic’s burden: U.S. health care. A large national study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings now adds social isolation as a measurable and consequential […]