America First Legal, the group founded by former Trump advisor Stephen Miller, is investigating a Biden administration transplant program it says is dangerous, discriminatory, and driven by outside special interests. The Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model, or IOTA Model, took effect July 1 as a mandatory six-year program at 103 hospitals across the United States. […]
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RFK Jr. Vows to Change Flawed Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced this week his intent to overhaul the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), calling it a broken system that fails the very people it was designed to protect. “The 1986 Vaccine Act gave vaccine makers immunity against lawsuits by children who suffer vaccine injuries,” Kennedy […]
FDA Approves Moderna’s New COVID-19 Vaccine Amid Controversy Over Trial Design
Despite mounting calls from physicians, researchers, and public health advocates to withdraw COVID-19 vaccines from the market entirely, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has once again moved in the opposite direction. Late last week, the agency approved a new Moderna COVID-19 vaccine without requiring the company to conduct pre-licensure clinical trials comparing the […]
Trump Bans Foreign Gain-of-Function Research, Pauses U.S. Experiments
President Donald Trump on May 5 issued a formal directive pausing all federal funding for dangerous gain-of-function (GoF) research involving enhanced pathogens of pandemic potential, particularly in adversarial nations such as China and Iran. In an Executive Order called “Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research,” Trump said GoF research on biological agents has […]
Big Pharma Booted From Advisory Committees By New FDA Commissioner
The Make America Healthy Again movement has proven to be more than just a campaign talking point for President Donald Trump as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implements sweeping changes right out of the gate to address agency capture. In sweeping and long-overdue reform, the FDA announced Thursday that it will remove pharmaceutical […]
Five Years Later: What Lockdowns Left Behind
We are just at about the 5-year anniversary of lockdowns. In the Bay Area, where I lived at the time that Covid took over the hysterical media’s every utterance, lockdowns went into effect on March 16, 2020. The official line now is that lockdowns in California and the Bay Area continued until mid-May. The reality […]
Country Star Says Private Dinner With President Trump Prompted Shift in COVID Vaccine Messaging
Country music star John Rich recently revealed that a private dinner conversation with President Donald Trump may have influenced Trump’s decision to stop promoting COVID-19 vaccines. The discussion, which Rich described as candid, direct and respectful, sheds new light on the President’s evolving rhetoric surrounding one of the most controversial public health measures in history. […]
Top NIH Officials Out, Including Fauci’s Wife, as RFK Jr. Cleans House
In a sweeping shake-up aimed at restoring public trust in America’s health institutions, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has ousted several high-ranking officials tied to the controversial COVID-19 vaccine response—including none other than Anthony Fauci’s wife, Christine Grady. Grady, who led the bioethics department at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) […]
FDA’s Peter Marks Forced to Resign Amid Shakeup Led by HHS Secretary RFK Jr.
In a long-anticipated reckoning at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Peter Marks, the embattled vaccine chief who oversaw the COVID-19 rollout, was ousted following pressure from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Marks, who led the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) for nearly a decade, submitted […]
What’s Behind Trump’s Pick to Lead CDC
President Trump has nominated Susan Monarez for the Director of the CDC. This has sent shock waves through the MAHA community, as they were expecting a Covid-era celebrity to take up the reins. To begin, while preparing this essay, out of the blue Secretary Kennedy called me to discuss the nomination of Monarez, so I […]