Vaccination cards, sometimes called immunization records, are pieces of paper given to patients as a way to track the vaccines they’ve received over time. Keeping this record handy ensures a patient is not given more vaccines than is recommended. Once envisioned as a badge of honor in an effort to
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A Nebraska mom on TikTok is bravely sharing and detailing her infant son’s vaccine reaction, recording videos and documenting each stage (which is also going to be useful for a claim with the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program) and sharing these videos with the world to raise public awareness of vaccine
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Sydney Figueroa was a happy, healthy, vibrant 11 year old Pennsylvania girl when she received the first dose of Merck’s HPV vaccine, Gardasil, on December 6, 2017. She went on and got the second dose of the vaccine when she was 12. Before the vaccine, Sydney was athletic and very
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The parents of a North Carolina girl have filed a wrongful death lawsuit after their daughter, Isabella Zuggi, aged 10, developed a fatal autoimmune disease and died 10 weeks after the first dose of Merck’s Gardasil vaccine. The child’s health declined rapidly after the shot, developing MOG (Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein)
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Shared from his mother, Gabriella. “Hi my name is Gabriella, the mother of Dino Angelo Santuccione, who lost his life at 1 years old due to vaccines. It was like any normal day I took him to his 1 year old check up appointment at Guilderland Pediatrician where my Son
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In the State of New York, infants and children are required to be vaccinated against ten or eight infectious diseases (including viruses that are not commonly transmitted in schools) with no ability to opt out, in order to attend daycare or school, respectively. These immunization requirements are not evidence-based in
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In October 2022, Melissa, a registered nurse, brought her infant son to the pediatrician for a rash on his torso that wasn’t going away. The pediatrician diagnosed Sawyer, just 8 weeks old at the time, with a viral rash. Given some ointment for the rash, Melissa and her son Sawyer
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We all want to make it to 39 or 40 weeks, but sometimes life has different plans. Maybe your water breaks, or your cervix starts dilating, or maybe your blood pressure is high. If you find yourself delivering before 37 weeks, first, congratulations on your preemie! Second, you’re not alone.
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Every year in the United States around 400 children between the ages of one and 18 years die from sudden and unexplained causes, which cannot be determined after a thorough autopsy and investigation. Medical examiners will diagnose these deaths as Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC). But one aspect of
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The new Netflix documentary Take Care of Maya tracks the heartbreaking and enraging medical kidnapping story of Maya Kowalski, who in 2015 at age 9 suddenly began having strange symptoms such as headaches, shortness of breath, immense pain in her limbs and skin, and strange bending of her feet, which are
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It’s hard to believe, but the very first CDC pediatric vaccine schedule was only introduced in 1995. Before the creation of the standardized CDC vaccine schedule, vaccination schedules varied depending on the individual healthcare provider and region. Some providers used their own schedules, while others followed guidelines put forth by
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Our brain and central nervous system are critical for survival, therefore it makes perfect sense that there would be many layers of finely tailored protection. One of these layers is known as the blood-brain barrier. The blood-brain barrier is a specialized layer of cells that controls or regulates “traffic” between
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Elon Musk made headlines once again, this time for a tweet made on November 20th, where he claimed that his firstborn child died in his arms, and he felt his last heartbeat–a memory which was then disputed by his ex-wife Canadian author Justine Musk a few days later. While so
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Honestly, I’ve never had one. Until I had children, it wasn’t even on my radar that a healthy, young person would or should get a flu shot. I’m sure you have been told all the reasons why you *should* get an annual flu vaccine, but are you being offered any
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Santino Godoy Blanco was a four year old Argentinian child whose image was used for a well publicized vaccine campaign in ads and posters throughout Argentina. The campaign, which was promoting an additional free and mandatory mmr shot and polio shot for children ages 13 months to 4 years–began October
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Update: Mother has corrected that the vaccine her daughter received the day before her daughter went into cardiac arrest was Regan’s third dose of the HPV vaccine, Gardasil 9. We think all vaccines are capable of causing death, and that the world deserves to know that. + At 20 years
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When the COVID-19 vaccines were initially rolled out, and pregnant and lactating women were given the green light to get the experimental injections (despite clinical trials excluding them as a study population) there were reports and stories of nursing infants breaking out into hives, fevers, seizures, or even dying unexpectedly after
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Baby Alexander was born January 3, 2022 with the congenital heart defect Double Outlet Right Ventricle (DORV) and a tracheoesophageal fistula, the latter which was repaired after birth. According to his mom Cornelia Hertzler, he improved a lot after that first surgery: “He has drastically improved since his surgery on
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In the summer of 1963, in the area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania medical examiner Dr. Joseph Spelman saw an unexpected increase in “crib deaths.” During the last two weeks of June, Dr. Spelman reported that 30 apparently healthy infants were put to bed for the night and died suddenly and unexpectedly.
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I’m sure you’ve heard all about it. The story goes like this: an unvaccinated 20-year-old young man was hospitalized in June in Rockland County, New York with what was initially diagnosed as acute flaccid myelitis (a differential diagnosis for polio that emerged after the vaccine changed the strictness of criteria
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