AHRP Speaks Out
Childhood Vaccines that are Unjustifiably Mandated
Below, Meryl Nass, MD,* an internal medicine physician whose expertise in vaccines includes creating a methodology for investigating and distinguishing between natural epidemics and biological warfare events, provides substantive information about several vaccines that are on the Childhood Vaccination Schedule. Childhood Vaccines that are Unjustifiably Mandated Meryl Nass, MD February 25, 2019 In 2019, sixteen different…
Read MoreJapan Establishes Guidelines & Special Clinics to Treat HPV Vaccine Injuries
The following news report was submitted by Meryl Nass, MD, member of AHRP Board Vaccine injuries are real. They can be serious and often fail to respond to treatment. The most serious injuries are usually to the brain. Vaccine injuries may cause death. The US federal vaccine injury compensation program has paid out $3.18 billion dollars in…
Read More2005: IOM Committee Considers Return to Prison Research
Today’s New York Times Magazine cover story, Planet of the Retired Chimpanzees By Charles Siebert, reports that chimpanzees who have served as subjects in biomedical research can look forward to being set free in one of 12 specially built chimp sanctuaries the prettiest places in all of Florida. This is the result of a recognition…
Read MorePublic Health Gone Awry: Birth Dose of Hepatitis B Vaccine
Hepatitis B is a serious disease. It is highly prevalent in many countries in Asia (nearly 10% of Chinese carried the illness in 1992). Fortunately its prevalence in the US is very low. According to CDC data, the overall reported US incidence rate for 2013 was 1.0 case of hepatitis B per 100,000 population. After adjusting…
Read MoreImmunocompromised children: what are their infectious risks from the unvaccinated?
Posted by Meryl Nass, MD In the last few days there have been multiple news articles and testimonies in the Maine and Vermont legislatures about the need to impose vaccine mandates to protect immunocompromised children.[1] [2] I attended the vaccine bills’ hearing in Augusta, Maine on May 11, which lasted into the night. I also…
Read MoreWhy Would You Vaccinate a Newborn for Hepatitis B?
This news report was submitted by Meryl Nass, MD, member of AHRP Board My maternal grandfather died in 1968 of what was almost certainly a fulminant Hepatitis B infection (causing rapid liver failure, occurring in just 1% of acute cases). He probably acquired it working part-time in a deli, slicing meat. In med school a few…
Read MoreCDC Measles Vaccination Rule Has Left Millions of Vaccinated Americans Without Protection
Lots of babies get measles in Africa and India, and it is a significant cause of death there. A great deal of work has gone into developing measles vaccines that can be given to children at younger and younger ages, especially in Africa, for this reason. But in the United States, endemic measles has been…
Read MoreVera Sharav: A Profile in Nature Biotechnology
Dr. Marcia Angell, a senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School, and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and author of The Truth About Drug Companies, describes Sharav as an extraordinarily observant and valuable critic. "I see her as someone the research establishment badly needs."
Read MoreAHRP Testimony: Protections for Foster Children Enrolled in Clinical Trials Submitted to Cong.Ways & Means Hearing
THE ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) https://www.ahrp.org 142 West End Ave. Suite 28P New York, NY 10023 Testimony by The Alliance for Human Research Protection Committee on Ways and Means Hearing on Protections for Foster Children Enrolled in Clinical Trials May 18, 2005 On March 10, 2004, The ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP)…
Read MoreAHRP Position Statement on Mental Health Screening – FDA Hearing Re: Drug Advertising
AHRP Position Statement on Mental Health Screening – FDA Hearing Re: Drug Advertising Wed, 02 Nov 2005 FDA is holding public hearings (Nov 1, 2) Re: Direct-to-Consumer Promotion of Medical Products at: National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center 429 L’Enfant Plaza, SW., Washington, DC 2 Time: 9:00 –5:00. Ellen Liversidge will submit testimony…
Read MoreAHRP Letter to Editor re: ARDS published NEJM
AHRP Letter to Editor re: ARDS published NEJM Fri, 11 Jul 2003 A truncated version of a Letter to the editor submitted by John H. Noble, Jr., PhD and Vera Sharav appears in the current July 10, 2003, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Note: On April 3, 2003 the NEJM published several…
Read MoreAnalysis of S. 1873 – The Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005
INTRODUCTION: This bill seriously endangers, if not completely undermines, the democratic process and the rule of law. It will absolutely destroy the unalienable rights of trial by jury and informed consent. It is a radical transfer of the US Treasury into the hands of unaccountable private companies whose record shows far more concern about profits than in protecting and improving the health of the American people. It also concentrates the power of life and death in the hands of one very fallible human being and creates an unaccountable federal bureaucracy not subject to disclosure, independent oversight or the safeguards of accountability necessary in a free republic.
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