By Nicole Polard WASHINGTON, D.C. — Researchers released the most recent news in the autism-vaccine debate at a press conference in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. A study scheduled for publication in the Pace Environmental Law Review closely examined public information on 1,300 cases in which the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program compensated families. Significant […]
Supreme Court rules vaccine makers protected from lawsuits
By Robert Barnes, Washington Post Staff Writer Federal law protects pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits by parents who claim that vaccines harmed their children, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The court ruled 6 to 2 that going before a special tribunal set up by Congress is the only way parents can be compensated for the negative […]
Detroit mother jailed after standoff
By Doug Guthrie Detroit — A 56-year-old woman faces multiple felony charges and is being held on $500,000 bond after a 10-hour standoff with police, claiming she was protecting her 13-year-old daughter from unnecessary medication. Maryanne Godboldo, 56, was arraigned Sunday before 36th District Magistrate Sidney Barthwell Jr. on charges of firing a weapon in […]
Vaccination Profiteers Gang Up on Hannah Bruesewitz
By Evelyn Pringle The American Academy of Pediatrics announced the submission of an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court on July 30, 2010, “joined by 21 partnering health organizations,” in the vaccine injury case of Bruesewitz v Wyeth, to support the powerful vaccine maker against a lone family. Oral arguments in the case took […]
Mom's Yellow Fever Jab Transmits Virus to Infant
By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today A five-week-old Canadian infant developed yellow fever after his mother was vaccinated against the disease, with the virus apparently transmitted through breast milk, researchers said. The incident — believed to be the first such transmission to be confirmed — supports what had been a hypothetical concern about live-virus […]