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Two Vaccine Americas? ACOG's Independent Pregnancy Vaccine Guidance Signals a Growing Public Health Divide
2+ week, 2+ day ago (105+ words) The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has issued updated vaccine recommendations for pregnant women, continuing to recommend COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza, and Tdap vaccination during pregnancy. The guidance comes amid significant changes in federal vaccine policy…...
Why Was Spike Protein in These Placentas? Study Points to Vaccinated Women Without Reported Infection
3+ week, 3+ day ago (147+ words) A 2026 study published in PLOS One by Dr. Catharina Bartmann and colleagues at University Hospital W'rzburg examined whether SARS-Co V-2 spike protein, nucleocapsid protein, viral RNA, or vaccine-derived m RNA could be detected in placentas from women who experienced COVID-19 during…...
Common Pregnancy Medications and Autism Risk: Massive Study Signals Concern'but Falls Short of Causation
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (105+ words) A nationwide cohort study led by Eric S. Peeples, MD, Ph D, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and published in Molecular Psychiatry analyzed 6. 1 million U. S. pregnancies and found that prenatal exposure to sterol biosynthesis'inhibiting medications (SBIMs) was associated with a…...
Pfizer-Backed Pediatric COVID-19 Study Signals Benefit'But Beneath the Surface, the Evidence Wobbles
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (111+ words) Sara Y. Tartof and colleagues at Kaiser Permanente Southern California, with coauthors from Pfizer, report in Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (Oxford University Press) a test-negative case-control study evaluating 20242025 BNT162b2 (KP. 2-adapted) vaccine effectiveness in children aged 6 months17 years. Analyzing ~31, 000 encounters,…...
Singapore Pediatric Vaccine Surveillance Finds No New Childhood Red Flags'But COVID-19 Signals Merit Scrutiny
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (115+ words) Sally Bee Leng Soh and colleagues at KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH), working with Singapore's Health Sciences Authority, report in Vaccine: X that active hospital-based surveillance (20132023) identified 2, 863 "possible-and-above" pediatric adverse events following immunization (AEFIs) among 326, 780 screened admissions. Childhood vaccine…...
Who Controls Vaccine Policy? Attorney's High-Stakes Bid to Rewrite the Rules
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (95+ words) Consumer rights litigator and vaccine safety advocate Aaron Siri as well as long time collaborator Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) are pursuing a governance-first vaccine reform strategy: rewrite the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) charter to reshape membership criteria,…...
Leaked Vaccine Injury Report Ignites Debate " Transparency, Science, and the Politics of Safety
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (80+ words) A newly surfaced policy document prepared for the U. S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is reigniting one of the most contentious debates of the post-pandemic era: how the medical system identifies and responds to potential long-term COVID-19 vaccine injuries. The…...
No Safety Signal in Pregnancy? France's SNDS Study Tests m RNA Vaccine AESIs'and Finds Mostly Null Results
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (166+ words) Sylvie Escolano and colleagues from Universit" Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, Inserm, CESP, High-Dimensional Biostatistics for Drug Safety and Pharmacoepidemiology as well as the Faculty of Medicine, Midwifery, Health Sciences, ETHICS EA 7446 Lille Catholic University, both in France report in The Lancet Regional…...
Aluminum in Vaccines vs Diet: JAMA Perspective Says the "Dose Makes the Panic'But Critics Will Flag the Framing
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (117+ words) Both Charlotte A. Moser and Paul A. Offit Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and published a Perspective in JAMA Feb 9, 2026 "asking a question that keeps resurfacing in vaccine-safety debates: is aluminum exposure from vaccines meaningfully risky compared with everyday dietary and environmental…...
CDC Pregnancy Registry Flags Higher HDP Reporting After COVID-19 Vaccination'But "Millions Harmed" Narratives Don't Follow
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (123+ words) A matched cohort study led by Andrea J. Sharma, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and colleagues, published in Vaccine (Impact Factor " 4. 1), assessed whether COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy or within 30 days of the last menstrual period is associated with hypertensive disorders…...