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6 stories tagged "mrna-vaccines"

Cancer

A Top Cancer Researcher Logged 333 Tumor Reports After COVID Shots and Infection. Now He Wants the Study the Agencies Won't Fund.

Wafik El-Deiry helped map how the p53 gene guards against cancer. Now he has co-authored a review of 333 tumor reports that surfaced or came roaring back after COVID vaccination or infection, plus a blunt admission that no one has produced the population study to rule the vaccine link out.

Drugs & FDA

The FDA Approved Moderna's mRNA Flu Shot for Seniors Without Proving It Works in Them

In February the FDA's own vaccine chief refused to even review it. One week later the agency reversed course, and the trial data never changed.

Investigations

Months Before Officials Told Pregnant Women the COVID Shot Was Safe, Fauci Privately Flagged a Theoretical First-Trimester Miscarriage Risk

Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul pulled the first messages off Fauci's government iPhone: a January 2021 chain in which he privately flagged a theoretical first-trimester miscarriage risk, months before official guidance told pregnant women the shot carried no such concern.

Infectious Disease

Five Years After COVID, Japan Is Still Dying at Pandemic Rates, and Confirmed COVID Explains Only a Tenth

Japan's excess deaths peaked at 7.55 percent in 2022 and still ran at 5.76 percent through 2023, after Tokyo downgraded COVID to a routine infectious disease, in one of the most heavily mRNA-dosed countries on earth.

Drugs & FDA

Moderna's mRNA flu shot got a 9-0 vote. The comparator question that killed its first filing did not go away.

An FDA panel voted 9-0 to back Moderna's first mRNA flu vaccine. Four months earlier, the same agency refused to even read the file over the comparator the trial used. The comparator did not change.

Cancer

Six melanoma patients, six weeks, one common variable: the question oncology is choosing not to study

An oncologist's bedside pattern, a Senate hearing, and a mechanism paper sitting in a mainstream oncology journal: the case that repeated mRNA boosters may be lifting the brakes off cancers oncologists thought they had quiet is no longer fringe enough to wave away.