Since FDA's 2006 'fast-track' approval of Merck's Gardasil vaccine, the public has been inundated with messages about the dangers of cervical cancer as well as the alleged best prevention tool, HPV vaccination, either Gardasil or its competitor, GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix. Young girls are implored … [Read more...]
What’s the scoop on the shingles vaccine?
Recently we've received many questions about whether to get the shingles (herpes zoster) vaccine. As always, the issue is not as black and white as some would have us believe, so here we discuss what you may not read in the mainstream about the shingles vaccine. The US Centers for Disease Control … [Read more...]
Civil Rights and Vaccines
January is civil rights month and January 21st is not only Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday and Federal holiday but also inauguration day. January, a month to celebrate rights and freedoms, it would seem an inspiring way to start off the year. But that is not the way the year started out for … [Read more...]
Defending the Indefensible – Injecting Mercury in Babies
Currently being negotiated at the World Health Organization (WHO) is whether to ban the use of mercury in medicines and vaccines. Scientists have been testifying to WHO about the dangers of mercury so many of the member nations of WHO have called for a ban on medications containing mercury and that … [Read more...]
Flu shots during pregnancy – Are they really safe?
For the past several years, women have been advised to get flu shots to protect their unborn baby. But has this practice been properly tested and does the data show that the practice is safe? A non-profit, the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) has been sounding alarm bells about the … [Read more...]
Should you get the flu shot?
While state and government agencies across the nation are beseeching us all to get flu shots to protect ourselves, to protect others, and to do the ‘right thing’ for the greater good of course, we thought we would give another perspective that does not get so much coverage by the corporate media. … [Read more...]
A Vote for Prop 37 is a Vote for Freedom
Many of you have probably heard about Proposition 37, a California ballot initiative that would require Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) or products made from them to be labeled. While you might not think Prop 37 has anything to do with vaccinations, it does. Here's why. The folks fighting … [Read more...]
Vaccine Injury After Gardasil – Are Higher Rates of Adverse Reactions Real?
Yesterday The Daily American newspaper published a heartbreaking letter to the editor from mom Kelly Sotomayor. Ms. Sotomayor describes the story of how her perfectly healthy 13 year old daughter received the Gardasil vaccine and ended up unable to walk for 2 years, with widespread muscle pain and … [Read more...]
Breaking News: Gardasil Linked to Two Deaths – Full Study Out
Death after quadrivalent human papillomavirus (qHPV) vaccination: causal or coincidental? A couple of weeks ago we blogged about a new study examining the brain tissue of a girl who died after her second dose of the Gardasil vaccine. Yesterday, the entire study was published. It turns out that … [Read more...]
Breaking News: New research links HPV vaccines to death
Death after quadrivalent human papillomavirus (qHPV) vaccination: causal or coincidental? Dr. Lucija Tomljenovic examined the brain tissue of a 15 year old girl who died two weeks after her second HPV booster and found evidence of inflammation and an autoimmune reaction in the brain. Dr. … [Read more...]