CDC Changes Hepatitis B Vaccine Birth Dose Recommendation for Newborns
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stopped recommending that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, marking a significant shift in a policy that has been in place for decades. The change followed a vote by members at a Dec. 5, 2025 meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization […]
Former CDC Director Says mRNA COVID-19 Shots Should Be Pulled from Market
The former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Robert Redfield, MD, is calling for Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA COVID-19 shots to be removed from the market. “I really would like to see the mRNA vaccine use curtailed, and personally, I’d like to see it eliminated, because I think there’s too […]
FDA Won’t Add “Black Box” Warning to COVID-19 Shots
News outlets have recently reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was considering adding a box warning (known for many years as a “Black Box” warning) to COVID-19 shots. A boxed warning appears prominently at the top of a drug’s prescribing information and represents the FDA’s strongest safety alert. The agency uses it […]
Data on Myocarditis Risk from COVID-19 Shots Hidden
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH recently said in a prepared statement that the Biden administration withheld data on heart inflammation risks from the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. The statement was made less than a week after the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH confirmed that at least […]
Tens of Millions of Americans Experienced COVID-19 Shot Side Effects
It has been nearly five years since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fast-tracked the COVID-19 mRNA biologic and distributed it under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommending the COVID shot for every American. This was followed by many workplaces and universities across the […]
European Medicines Agency Issues Support for New Recombinant Pertussis Vaccine
A new pertussis vaccine, which has been designed to be used as a booster and for vaccinating pregnant women, has received “positive regulatory support” from the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP). Marketed under the name VacPertagen, the recombinant pertussis vaccine—formulated with genetically engineered proteins rather than inactivated whole […]