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06/05/23

Most U.S. Adults Are Declining COVID Boosters as CDC Warns of Health Risks: ‘Relatively Little Protection’ + More

The Defender’s Big Pharma Watch delivers the latest headlines related to pharmaceutical companies and their products, including vaccines, drugs, and medical devices and treatments. The views expressed in the below excerpts from other news sources do not necessarily reflect the views of The Defender. Our goal is to provide readers with breaking news that affects human health and the environment.

06/05/23

‘Medical Gaslighting’: Physicians Speak Out Against COVID Policies, Call for Reform

The recently launched Global Health Project released a video — “The Oath” — in which physicians describe the effect on doctors, patients and the healthcare system of silencing dissent during the COVID-19 pandemic.

06/05/23

FDA Approves Clinical Trials for Brain Implants in Humans: ‘This Week’ With Mary + Polly

In “This Week” with Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense president on leave, and Polly Tommey, CHD.TV programming manager, Mary and Polly discuss the latest news on COVID-19 vaccines and other issues.

06/02/23

CHD Scientists Call for Investigation Into CDC, FDA for Suppressing Evidence Linking COVID Shots and Myocarditis

In a letter to the editor published today in Medical Research Archives, two Children’s Health Defense scientists called for an investigation into how U.S. public health officials suppressed evidence linking myocarditis and COVID-19 vaccines.

06/01/23

Exclusive: Federal Government Funds $4.7 Million Grant — Led by Merck Consultant — to Increase HPV Vaccine Uptake by Improving How Providers ‘Announce’ the Vaccine

Documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense show that Noel Brewer, Ph.D., lead investigator for the grant, consults for Merck and also received commercial research grants from Merck, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline. CHD identified more than 50 grants worth $40 million awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the purpose of increasing HPV vaccine uptake.

05/31/23

People Who Get More COVID Vaccines More Likely to Get the Virus, New Study Shows

“People are going to feel … so gaslit about all this stuff,” said Robby Soave, host of The Hill’s “Rising,” who commented on the new peer-reviewed study by the Cleveland Clinic.

05/31/23

Breaking: Family of 24-Year-Old Who Died From COVID Vaccine Sues DOD in ‘Groundbreaking Case’

The family of a 24-year-old man who died from complications of COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis alleges the U.S. Department of Defense engaged in “willful misconduct” when it claimed Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine authorized for emergency use was “safe and effective.”

05/31/23

Sackler Family, the Maker of OxyContin, Will Be Shielded From Lawsuits as Part of $6 Billion Settlement + More

05/30/23

NIH Spends $1 Billion to Study Long COVID — Produces Nothing but ‘Confusion’

The National Institutes of Health’s efforts to study long COVID have done little to benefit those struggling with the disorder and haven’t contributed meaningful information about the condition, according to an investigation by STAT and MuckRock, a nonprofit news outlet.

05/30/23

Israel’s Health Ministry: No Young Adults Without Preexisting Conditions Died of COVID + More

The Defender’s COVID NewsWatch provides a roundup of the latest headlines related to the SARS CoV-2 virus, including its origins and COVID vaccines. The views expressed in the excerpts from other news sources do not necessarily reflect the views of The Defender.

05/26/23

Ozempic in Teens Is a Mess + More

05/25/23

FDA Finds Evidence of Serious Safety Signal for COVID Vaccines in Young Kids — Says It Proves Shots Are ‘Safe’

Young teens who received the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine have a higher risk of heart inflammation, according to a new U.S. Food and Drug Administration study — researchers said the study’s results provide “additional evidence for the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines in the pediatric population.”

05/25/23

Abbott, Baby Formula Makers Face FTC Probe for Potential Collusion + More

05/25/23

Pediatricians Get Paid to Push Vaccines — and It’s No Small Amount of Cash

Using the average statistics from 1999, if a pediatrician has 1,000 patients, 264 can be expected to be 2 years old or younger. If all are fully vaccinated, the pediatrician would be eligible for a $105,600 year-end bonus.

05/24/23

‘The Real RFK Jr.’: New Book Chronicles Kennedy’s Path to Leading Medical Freedom Champion

A new book by Dick Russell provides the first in-depth account of how and why Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became involved in America’s public health crisis and, in particular, the chronic disease epidemic afflicting children in the U.S.

05/24/23

Eating Disorders in Teen Girls Doubled During the Pandemic + More

05/23/23

Exclusive: New Evidence FDA, CDC Hid Early Data on Myocarditis Spurs Questions of ‘Criminal Coverup’

New evidence suggests the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S. Food and Drug Administration may have violated the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act when they withheld knowledge about myocarditis safety signals from the public and from COVID-19 vaccine fact sheets.

05/23/23

First COVID Vaccine Injury Lawsuit in U.S. Targets U.S. Government, Social Media Giants

Five people injured by COVID-19 vaccines, along with a father whose 16-year-old son died from vaccine-induced cardiac arrest, are suing the Biden administration and top U.S. public health officials for allegedly colluding with social media companies to censor their stories.

05/23/23

Parents’ Mistrust of HPV Vaccine May Be Growing + More

05/23/23

Mechanical ‘Robotic’ Pill Would Deliver mRNA Vaccines Directly Into Stomach Lining

“I can tell you as a doctor, I would be very concerned this could lead to even bigger complications than an injection in the arm,” said Dr. Peter McCullough.

05/22/23

Canadian Airline Employees File Class Action Lawsuit Over COVID Vaccine Mandates

The three initial plaintiffs in the lawsuit — a pilot, a flight attendant and an airport station attendant — were suspended or fired from their jobs after they refused to comply with the Canadian government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for airline workers and passengers in October 2021.

05/22/23

Are Foods Being Turned Into Bioweapons?

Just as medicine is being hijacked by the biotech industry, so is our food supply. President Biden recently signed an executive order that makes biotechnology a key focus of every federal agency, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

05/22/23

If Bird Flu Starts to Spread Among People, Existing Vaccines May Be Inadequate, Experts Say + More

05/19/23

CDC Reports Another Death Linked to Recalled Eyedrops + More

05/18/23

Plan to Build NIH-Funded Bat Research Lab in Colorado Sparks Fears of Lab Leak

Colorado State University officials deny the controversial bat disease research lab will conduct gain-of-function experiments, but locals opposed to the facility cite evidence the university is already conducting risky research on deadly pathogens.

05/18/23

FDA Advisers to Consider RSV Vaccine to Protect Newborns + More

05/17/23

CHD Appeals Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging FDA’s Authorization of COVID Vaccines for Kids

Children’s Health Defense is appealing the dismissal of a federal lawsuit challenging the authority of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to grant Emergency Use Authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for children.

05/17/23

Biden’s Pick for Top NIH Post Has Deep Ties to Pharma — ‘That Is How Agencies Are Captured’

President Joe Biden this week nominated cancer specialist Dr. Monica Bertagnolli for director of the National Institutes of Health — a move that has already generated controversy because of Bertagnolli’s financial ties to Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies.

05/17/23

Guess How Much Big Pharma Paid in U.S. Taxes on $110 Billion of Profit in 2022 + More

05/16/23

Big Pharma’s ‘Rampant Corporate Lawlessness’ Cost Americans $40 Billion in 2019: Report

The U.S. pharmaceutical industry’s aggressive and often unlawful efforts to prevent competition and keep drug prices elevated cost American patients, insurers and federal health programs more than $40 billion in 2019 alone, according to a report released today.