by Chris Walker | Dec 17, 2025 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, Food and Drug Administration, Measles, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Vaccines, Vinay Prasad
On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) top official Marty Makary announced that the agency has opted not to put “black box” warnings on coronavirus vaccines, despite reports that FDA officials were considering such a move last week. Black box warnings are considered the most serious designation from the FDA. Such warnings are placed on opioid medication, for example…
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by Chris Walker | Dec 11, 2025 | Coronavirus, COVID, COVID vaccines, Food and Drug Administration, News, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Vaccinations
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this week that it will investigate whether there is a link between vaccinations for coronavirus and deaths in the United States, despite mountains of evidence that COVID-19 shots are both safe and effective. “FDA is doing a thorough investigation, across multiple age groups, of deaths potentially related to coronavirus vaccines…
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by Arthur Allen | Dec 7, 2025 | Health and Human Services, News Analysis, Public Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Vaccines
Recent weeks have brought good news about vaccines, with studies indicating that flu vaccination reduces heart disease, shingles vaccines can prevent or slow dementia, and a single human papillomavirus shot protects a girl from cervical cancer for the rest of her life. But in the upside-down world of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., vaccines are on the ropes.
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by Lauren Sausser | Nov 26, 2025 | CDC, Charter Schools, Department of Health and Human Services, Health and Human Services, HHS, Measles, misinformation, News, Public Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., South Carolina, Vaccines
BOILING SPRINGS, S.C. — Near the back corner of the local library’s parking lot, largely out of view from the main road, the South Carolina Department of Public Health opened a pop-up clinic in early November, offering free measles vaccines to adults and children. Spartanburg County, in South Carolina’s Upstate region, has been fighting a measles outbreak since early October…
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by Chris Walker | Nov 26, 2025 | anti-science, Anti-Vax, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19, News, Ralph Abraham, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Vaccinations
Ralph Abraham, a top health official in Louisiana who has peddled disinformation about vaccines, has been quietly named to a prominent position within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Abraham’s appointment was not formally announced, but his name appears on internal databases for the agency, which list him as the principal deputy director for the CDC — the agency’s…
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by Chris Walker | Nov 21, 2025 | anti-science, Anti-Vax, Autism, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, News, Public Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Vaccines
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has altered its webpage on vaccine safety and autism to reflect the false anti-vaccine talking points peddled by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The new language contradicts decades of evidence-based research that has found zero link between childhood vaccinations and autism.
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