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Deaths in PA lead to questions on how the US as a nation handles measles. CDC’s current recommendations of both vaccination and Vitamin A dosing after exposure for years are put under the microscope.
CDC recommends two therapeutic doses of...
FDA Knew Its COVID Vaccine Safety Algorithm Could Hide Signals. It Used It Anyway.
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Risks of Using AI in Clinical Research and How They Are Preventable with AI
By James Lyons-Weiler, PhD
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What Counts as Medical-System Corruption?
DE-CORRUPTING MEDICINE STARTS SEPT 15 - NOT SEPT 8 - YOU HAVE NOT MISSED THE FIRST MEETING!
On paper, a pharmaceutical “speaker program” is easy to defend.
A qualified clinician teaches colleagues. The audience is real, the work is docume...
Why Learn Biology Now? Many Reasons - The Most Important of Which is YOU
By James Lyons-Weiler, PhD
Somewhere along the way, most of us absorbed a quiet lie: that the season for learning something purely because it fascinates you has passed. School was for the young. The career years were for producing....
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