Vaccinations

Why Japan banned MMR vaccine

by JENNY HOPE, Daily Mail Japan stopped using the MMR vaccine seven years ago – virtually the only developed nation to turn its back on the jab. Government health chiefs claim a four-year experiment with it has had serious financial and human costs. Of the 3,969 medical compensation claims relating to vaccines in the last […]

Risk of Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus Recurrence After Recombinant Zoster Vaccination

May 04, 2024 JAMA Ophthalmology TAKE-HOME MESSAGE In this study, the authors investigated the rate of herpes zoster ophthalmicus (HZO) reactivation in patients who received the recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV). Of the approximately 3600 patients identified for inclusion, 84 patients were found to have an event suggestive of HZO reactivation, including new prescriptions of ophthalmic […]

A Vaccine Doesn’t Mean Full Immunity

by Sara Berg – Senior News Writer for the American Medical Association “You can’t assume that every microorganism is going to give immediate lifelong immunity. People can get reinfected,” said Dr. Grody. “It works for some diseases like hepatitis B, but that doesn’t seem to be working that well for COVID-19.” “There’s certainly antibodies to […]

Analysis of health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated children: Developmental delays, asthma, ear infections and gastrointestinal disorders

SAGE Open Medicine Volume 8: 1–11 Brian S Hooker First Published May 27, 2020 Abstract Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the health of vaccinated versus unvaccinated pediatric populations. Methods: Using data from three medical practices in the United States with children born between November 2005 and June 2015, vaccinated children were compared […]

24 cases of the mumps confirmed at the University of Florida

Days after Caillin Heron got her degree from the University of Florida, she found out she also got the mumps. Author: Liz Crawford Published: 1:53 PM EDT June 4, 2019 Updated: 6:59 PM EDT June 4, 2019 GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It all started when Caillin Heron’s jaw started to hurt and she found it hard […]

MMR-Autism Link Debunked … Again

Not even a hint of relationship in large Danish study by Kristen Monaco, Staff Writer, MedPage Today March 04, 2019 Children in Denmark receiving the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine had no extra risk of developing autism, even among those considered especially vulnerable to the neurodevelopmental condition, researchers said. In a nationwide cohort of 657,461 children, some […]

Herd Immunity: Three Reasons Why I Don’t Vaccinate My Children… And Why Vaccine Supporters Shouldn’t Care That I Use Vaccine Exemption Forms

Parents who choose not to vaccinate their children and protect them with vaccine exemption forms are often chastised and stereotyped for putting their own kids at risk. But what is even stranger than this assault on individual freedom and informed choice, is that these concerned parents are attacked for putting vaccinated children at risk. These attacks are based […]

International scientists have found autism’s cause. What will Americans do?

BY J.B. HANDLEY April 2, 2018 Five clear, replicable, and related discoveries explaining how autism is triggered have formed an undeniably clear picture of autism’s causation, and possibly ways to alleviate the symptoms, too. Most of the research that has created this understanding has been published in the last 36 months, and largely from international […]

The putative role of environmental aluminium in the development of chronic neuropathology in adults and children. How strong is the evidence and what could be the mechanisms involved? – Full Text Article

Metab Brain Dis. 2017; 32(5): 1335–1355. Published online 2017 Jul 27. doi: 10.1007/s11011-017-0077-2 PMCID: PMC5596046 PMID: 28752219 Gerwyn Morris Abstract The conceptualisation of autistic spectrum disorder and Alzheimer’s disease has undergone something of a paradigm shift in recent years and rather than being viewed as single illnesses with a unitary pathogenesis and pathophysiology they are […]

Pilot comparative study on the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated 6- to 12- year old U.S. children – Full Text Article

Mawson AR, Ray BD, Bhuiyan AR, Jacob B (2017) Pilot comparative study on the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated 6- to 12-year-old U.S. children. J Transl Sci 3: DOI: 10.15761/JTS.1000186 Abstract Vaccinations have prevented millions of infectious illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths among U.S. children, yet the long-term health outcomes of the vaccination schedule remain uncertain. […]

A Global Vaccine Injury Compensation System

January 23, 2017 Sam F. Halabi, JD, MPhil Vaccines are extremely safe and harm is rare. Worldwide, more than 30 000 vaccine doses are delivered per second through routine immunization programs, which, in turn, prevent an estimated 2 million to 3 million deaths annually.1 The occurrence of serious adverse events, such as those that result in […]

Doctors Against Vaccines: The Other Side of the Story is Not Being Told [Videos]

Health Impact News Editor Comments: The pro-Pharma mainstream media would like everyone to believe that doctors and “scientists” all agree that vaccines are safe and effective, and that dissenters are uneducated or uninformed parents. Not true. Doctors and scientists who dare to speak out against the status quo, putting their own careers in jeopardy for […]

Kids Treated With Alternative Medicine Less Likely to Get Flu Shots

NHIS data show acupuncture, chiropractic linked to lower vax rates by Molly Walker Staff Writer, MedPage Today 10.04.2016 Children who received certain types of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) were less likely to have received a flu shot, data from the CDC’s National Health Interview Survey indicated. Child vaccination was significantly less common in households […]

Relative trends in hospitalizations and mortality among infants by the number of vaccine doses and age, based on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 1990-2010.

Goldman GS, et al. Hum Exp Toxicol. 2012. Abstract In this study, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database, 1990-2010, was investigated; cases that specified either hospitalization or death were identified among 38,801 reports of infants. Based on the types of vaccines reported, the actual number of vaccine doses administered, from 1 to 8, […]

Association Between Vaccine Refusal and Rate of Measles and Pertussis

March 24, 2016 JAMA : The Journal of the American Medical Association TAKE-HOME MESSAGE The authors of this review evaluated the epidemiology of recent outbreaks of measles and pertussis to assess the effect of vaccine refusal or exemption on disease rates. No measles vaccine had been given to 56.8% of 1416 individuals diagnosed with measles […]

Association Between Vaccine Refusal and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in the United States – Full Text

JAMA March 15, 2016, Vol 315, No. 11 A Review of Measles and Pertussis Varun K. Phadke, MD ABSTRACT Importance Parents hesitant to vaccinate their children may delay routine immunizations or seek exemptions from state vaccine mandates. Recent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the United States have drawn attention to this phenomenon. Improved understanding of […]

No Surprise: Most Measles Victims Are Unvaccinated

03.15.2016 Pertussis outbreaks, however, have more complex origins by Molly Walker Contributing Writer More than half of U.S. measles cases since 2000 occurred in unvaccinated individuals, most of whom had cited nonmedical reasons for avoiding immunization, according to a meta-analysis on measles and pertussis outbreaks. Analysis of 1,416 reported measles cases found that 56.4% involved […]

Pertussis Outbreak Described in Preschool in Tallahassee

Within preschool, only five children had not received complete series of vaccinations MONDAY, Jan. 18, 2016 (HealthDay News) — A report published online Jan. 13 in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Emerging Infectious Diseases highlights a 2013 pertussis outbreak among mainly vaccinated preschool-aged children. James Matthias, M.P.H., from the Florida Department of […]

CDC Warns About Syringe Reuse in Workplace Influenza Shots

Janis C. Kelly December 21, 2015 A notable disregard for basic vaccine safety that included reuse of syringes for influenza vaccinations given to employees at a New Jersey company sparked a massive, multiagency scramble to determine whether any of the vaccine recipients had been infected with HIV, hepatitis C virus, or hepatitis B virus as […]

Flu Vaccine is the most Dangerous Vaccine in the U. S. based on Settled Cases for Injuries

December 14, 2015 Health Impact News The last report issued in 2013 by the Department of Justice (Vaccine Court), for compensation made by the Health and Human Services for people injured or killed by vaccines, was released in December 2013, covering the period of 8/16/2013 through 11/15/2013. The report is available as a Power Point presentation […]