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CDC panel passes recommendation to change hepatitis B vaccine guidance

Joseph Choi
The Hill
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:49 UTC
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© CDCDr Robert Malone (left) the chair of the committee • Committee member Vicky Pebsworth (R)
A key vaccine advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday voted in favor of reversing long-held guidance for newborn hepatitis B vaccinations.

After months of delay, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 8-3 in favor of lifting the recommendation that all newborns receive hepatitis B vaccinations at birth, the most sweeping change to the childhood vaccine schedule since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the helm of the agency.

The vote marked a significant victory for Kennedy who has long targeted the childhood vaccine schedule. It also showed how he has remade federal health agencies.

Kennedy fired all of the members of the panel over the summer and handpicked new ones, many of whom share his skepticism of vaccines.
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Syringe

Common Vaccines Linked to 38-50% Increased Risk of Dementia and Alzheimer's

Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
Focal Points
Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:33 UTC
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The single largest and most rigorous study ever conducted on vaccines and dementia — spanning 13.3 million UK adults — has uncovered a deeply troubling pattern: those who received common adult vaccines faced a significantly higher risk of both dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

The risk intensifies with more doses, remains elevated for a full decade, and is strongest after influenza and pneumococcal vaccination. With each layer of statistical adjustment, the signal doesn't fade — it becomes sharper, more consistent, and increasingly difficult to explain away.
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Post-It Note

High Heart Rate Variability at Night as a Red Alert

Dr.Gaby
The Health Matrix
Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:09 UTC
Sleep Apnea Dysautonomia - The devil in the details when it comes to interpreting HRV

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Repeated release of stress hormones can reduce heart rate variability, the heart's natural defense mechanism against stress, and literally the beat-to-beat variations of heart rate.

Normally, beat-to-beat intervals change slightly in response to automatic functions such as breathing. The electrical activity of the heart can be measured by waves in an electrocardiogram. The R waves correspond to ventricular depolarization (or electrical discharge of the big chambers of the heart), with the RR interval going from the onset of one R wave to the next one - a complete cardiac cycle. Heart rate variability (HRV) is synonymous with RR variability, and it is regulated by the vagus nerve which is the main nerve of the relaxation response of our nervous system, the parasympathetic system. The sympathetic system with its fight or flight response opposes this relaxing parasympathetic system with the vagus nerve at its main node.
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Health

How a generation of women was misled about hormone therapy

Jingduan Yang
ZeroHedge
Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:00 UTC
Doctor patient
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"Was I misled?"

That's the question I hear most from my patients lately — asked with anger, exhaustion, and the quiet devastation of women who wonder if they lost years of their lives to menopause symptoms they were told were untreatable.

The answer came earlier this month when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it would remove "black box" warnings from hormone therapy products after 23 years. For many women, the reversal is an admission that arrives decades too late.

What Happened in 2002

In July 2002, preliminary data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) were published in JAMA, showing that combined hormone therapy (estrogen and progestin) increased the risk of breast cancer, stroke, and pulmonary embolism. Major media outlets interpreted early signals from the study as definitive danger, and the announcement led to an instant and dramatic decline in the use of hormone therapy.

Women who had been sleeping well for the first time in years suddenly poured their medications into the trash. Pharmacies fielded calls from panicked patients demanding immediate discontinuation. Primary care doctors, most of whom had never been trained deeply in menopause management, told their patients to "stop now and ask questions later."

Women did stop, and many suffered in silence for the next 20 years.
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Syringe

FDA reports Covid shots killed 'at least' 10 children, vows new vaccine rules

Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
NBC News
Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:31 UTC
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in White Oak, Md., on June 5, 2023.
© Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch TimesThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in White Oak, Md., on June 5, 2023.
The director of the Food and Drug Administration's vaccine division told agency staff in a memo that an internal review found that at least 10 children died "after and because of receiving" the Covid vaccine.

The 3,000-word memo, obtained by NBC News, was written by Dr. Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. In it, Prasad claims that agency staff determined that "no fewer than 10" of 96 child deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, between 2021 and 2024 were "related" to Covid vaccination. He said the true numbers could be higher, accusing the agency of ignoring the safety concerns for years.

The memo, sent Friday, did not include the children's ages or medical histories, timelines or documentation for the deaths he references and does not identify the manufacturer of the vaccine. The FDA's findings have not been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Comment: Also see:

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Health

Tattoo ink accumulates in lymph nodes - study

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:31 UTC
Tattooing process, tattoo risks, tattoo toxins
© belyjmishka / fotolia.comCommon tattoo inks have been found to accumulates in lymph nodes, impairing the body's immune system.
A new study shows tattoo ink drains into the lymphatic system and accumulates in lymph nodes, diminishing the effects of immune cells. This accumulation of ink pigment triggers both local and systemic inflammation that persists for months.

A third of American adults, roughly 32% - or about 80 million people - have tattoos, and they should read this new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).

"Despite safety concerns regarding the toxicity of tattoo ink, no studies have reported the consequences of tattooing on the immune response. In this work, we have characterized the transport and accumulation of different tattoo inks in the lymphatic system using a murine model," researcher Arianna Capucetti wrote in the study.

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Brain

Study finds sleep apnea dramatically raises risk of developing Parkinson's


SciTech Daily
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:57 UTC
brain missing puzzle pieces graphic sleep apnea
© ShutterstockUntreated sleep apnea may nearly double the chances of developing Parkinson's disease, but CPAP therapy sharply reduces that risk.
New findings reveal that untreated obstructive sleep apnea can significantly raise the likelihood of developing Parkinson's disease, but consistent CPAP use appears to dramatically cut that risk.

Scientists suspect that repeated nightly drops in oxygen put long-term strain on neurons, potentially contributing to neurodegeneration. The results highlight how something as simple as improving sleep quality may offer powerful protection against conditions once thought largely inevitable with age.

Sleep Apnea Linked to Higher Parkinson's Risk

New findings indicate that individuals who leave obstructive sleep apnea untreated face a greater likelihood of developing Parkinson's disease. Improving sleep quality through the use of continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, can meaningfully lower this risk.

The work, published today (November 24) in JAMA Neurology, analyzed electronic health records from more than 11 million U.S. military veterans who received care through the Department of Veterans Affairs between 1999 and 2022.

Comment: Untreated sleep apnea, even if mild, is considered a risk factor in many conditions besides Parkinson's. When the body is deprived of its crucial restorative cycle, it's no wonder a multitude of health problems are possible.

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Health

Calcifediol - Vitamin D's active molecule and its role in Long COVID, case study

Dr.Gaby
Dr.Gaby's Substack
Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:10 UTC
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The following case is that of a 49-year-old woman, who we will call MV, and who benefited enormously from the active form of vitamin D, calcifediol, to relieve her disabling symptoms following COVID-19 mRNA vaccination.

Background

MV is a moderate smoker and, as I see it, she hasn't quit smoking, despite her own very negative views on this habit, due to self-medication purposes. Simply put, she needs regular nicotine infusions to survive what she is going through. See my article here on this subject: COVID-19, ACE2, Nicotinic Receptors And The Cholinergic Anti-Inflammatory And Cognitive-Improving Pathway.

MV has no known allergies, but is intolerant to opioids, and supplements like the highly available magnesium bisglycinate gives her diarrhea. This later data and the fact that she has been persistently low in folic acid since the COVID-19 era, like most of my patients, makes me think that her microbiome took a hit with SARS COV2, like most affected people.

MV, by the way, received 3 doses of COVID-19 mRNA and has had COVID-19 on 6 occasions since 2020.
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Syringe

Quick Take...The Covid inquiry's (incredibly predictable) findings

Kit Knightly
Off-Guardian Org
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:44 UTC
Covid Inquiry
© Off-Guardian Org
The UK's Covid Enquiry has published its second report, and its conclusion is as relevant as it is predictable.

To quote Sky News:
The response of the UK's four governments to the pandemic was a "repeated case of too little, too late" and tens of thousands of lives could have been saved had lockdowns been introduced faster, the COVID-19 Inquiry has found
That's all they were ever going to say, and it's all we really need to know.

The full report is over seven hundred and fifty pages across two volumes, a Tolstoy novel of irrelevance.

This is the point of formal inquiries, months of quasi-meaningless testimony whose only purpose is to eat up time until the public memory has faded, then lend verisimilitude to the pre-written revisionist conclusion.
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Biohazard

WA resident sick with bird flu virus never before seen in humans

Elise Takahama
Seattle Times
Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:09 UTC
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© Ken Lambert / The Seattle TimesPeople with backyard flocks are advised to avoid contact with any sick or dead birds.
The Grays Harbor County resident infected with bird flu this month has tested positive for a type of the virus never before detected in humans, state health officials confirmed Friday.

The state Department of Health said Thursday the resident was considered to be "preliminarily positive" for influenza A H5, but has since confirmed the infection as the first human case of bird flu in the state this year — and the first in the country in at least eight months. Additional testing with the University of Washington virology lab revealed the virus is H5N5, a type of bird flu that's previously been reported in animals but not in humans, State Health Officer Dr. Tao Sheng Kwan-Gett said in a Friday news conference.

The risk to the public remains low, Kwan-Gett said.

"This is an important scientific and epidemiologic development, but ... this new information does not change the investigation, the public health response or guidance to the public," Kwan-Gett said.
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