Statewide Medical Databases

Children’s Health Defense has been granted provisional mediated access to the Florida Medicaid Database upon request. Such a database is a potential goldmine of existing information directly related to the many causes and issues for which CHD advocates. The following projects have been initiated based on this access.

Florida Medicaid Database (current) HibTITER® analysis

“HibTITER® is one of several vaccines that address Haemophilus Influenzae type b (HIB). HibTITER®, manufactured by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc. and distributed in the US between 1990 and 2007. It was the dominant Hib vaccine distributed in the US between 1991 and 1994 before it was quietly pulled from the market in 2007. HibTITER® had the strongest safety signals among HIB vaccines in VAERS and Florida’s Medicaid database.

CHD’s Chief Scientific Officer Brian Hooker, Ph.D. and Senior Research Scientist Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D. published the peer-reviewed paper, “Adverse outcome detection ofchildhood administered thimerosal-free HibTITER®,” in the International Journal of Risk and Safety Medicine. The authors found 19 separate health conditions, ranging from mild to life-threatening, positively associated with the HibTITER® vaccine within 30 days of immunization, the most prominent adverse outcome being pulmonary tuberculosis. Other adverse outcomes included asthma, acute upper respiratory infections, acute bronchiolitis, acute laryngopharyngitis, acute serous otitis media, reflux esophagitis, colitis, enteritis, and gastroenteritis. The results were corroborated using the VAERS database and have profound medical implications for the estimated 35 million Americans between the ages of 16 and 33 who received the vaccine.”

Florida Medicaid Database (current) analysis of MMR timing and neurodevelopmental disorders

The current CDC recommendation is for the administration of the Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) vaccine between 12-15 months of age. This project examines how neurodevelopmental disorders compare between children vaccinated as CDC-recommended to those first vaccinated several months later. The resulting analysis will demonstrate how a child’s susceptibility to vaccine harm changes with age.

Louisiana Medicaid Database

Children’s Health Defense is engaged in ongoing data acquisition activities in support of Louisiana State Legislature’s House Resolution 292” to conduct a study that examines the relationship between unexpected deaths of infants and children ages two and under and the administration of vaccinations.