Health/Sick Care
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hit back at Congress members who attacked his stance on vaccines and the chronic disease epidemic, suggesting today during his second U.S. Senate hearing to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that several members have accepted donations from Big Pharma.
One day after his first confirmation hearing in the Senate Finance Committee, which included an exchange with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) about onesies sold on the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) website, Kennedy testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, for which Sanders is a ranking member.
During an exchange with Sanders, Kennedy said, “Corruption is not just in the federal agencies, it is in Congress too. Almost all the members of this panel … including yourself, are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry.”
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Read MoreFeelings of aggression, anger and hallucinations are rising sharply among adolescents in the U.S. and India — and the increase is linked to the progressively younger age at which children are acquiring cellphones, according to a new study.
Researchers with the nonprofit Sapien Labs wrote in their Jan. 23 report:
“Swift action is needed to safeguard younger generations from a future marked by increased anger, aggression, and violence. … We urge parents at the very least to delay giving their child a smartphone until at least 8th grade or age 13 so as to give them more time to develop healthier social skills and reduce tendencies for anger and aggression.”
The report was based on data from 10,475 adolescents ages 13-17 in the U.S. and India, with roughly 5,000 teens from each country.
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Read MoreLeft unexamined was whether the pandemic impacted the social cognition of preschool children—kids younger than 6—whose social norms were upended by day care closures and families sheltered at home.
“It was remarkable to see the drop in kids’ performance,” said developmental psychology Professor Rose Scott , the lead author of the study published in Scientific Reports . “On one of the tasks in my lab, children tested before the pandemic could pass at 2 and a half years old. Right after the lockdowns, we were seeing 5-year-olds not passing it.”
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Read MoreSome children are starting reception school “unable to climb a staircase”, while others use Americanisms in their speech because of too much screen time, according to a survey of teachers.
The pandemic has been blamed for a decline in school readiness among reception-aged children, but some teachers who took part in the annual poll said the “Covid baby” explanation was starting to feel like an excuse.
As well as children arriving at school in nappies – one in four who began reception last September were not toilet trained – teachers reported children with poor basic motor skills and underdeveloped muscles, which they linked with excessive screen use.
“I’ve got two children [in my class] who physically cannot sit on the carpet. They don’t have core strength,” a reception teacher in the north-west told researchers.
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Read MoreThis shift in perspective has profound implications for the future of this generation and those to come.
As a developmental psychologist who studies the intersection of media and adolescent mental health, and as a mother of two Gen Z kids, I have seen firsthand how external societal factors can profoundly shape young people’s emotional well-being.
This was brought into sharp relief through the results of a recent survey my colleagues and I conducted with 1,644 young people across the U.S., ages 10 to 24. The study was not designed as a political poll but rather as a window into what truly matters to adolescents. We asked participants to rate the importance of 14 personal goals. These included classic teenage desires such as “being popular,” “having fun” and “being kind.”
None of these ranked as the top priority. Instead, the No. 1 answer was “to be safe.”
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Read MoreWhen I started family practice in ‘99 I held flu shot clinics for several years for patients in the rural community of Lansdowne, Ontario, where I worked. I was taught that “Flu Shots Save Lives”. The government advertised them to my patients. Demand was high. The pay was good.
Over the years I became more skeptical about vaccines, including flu shots. What does the science say? We learned during COVID that public health messaging is often very disconnected from facts and reality.
When I wanted to know the truth behind flu shots, the first person I thought of was Dr. David Zitner. A retired family doctor and expert in medical data science, David is also the Senior Healthcare Policy Fellow at the MacDonald-Laurier institute. Even better, through his work with CURAC (the College and University Retirees Association of Canada) he has specifically dug into the question: should we be promoting flu shots. I’m glad he described himself as a gadfly, so I didn’t have to! But he’s just the kind of gadfly that we love at Free Speech in Medicine.
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Read MoreFull testimony from Mrs. Kate Scott
We hope that our participation in this inquiry will result in 3 key outcomes:
Firstly, to highlight the fact of vaccine injury and bereavement, secondly, to remove the stigma suffered by those who are vaccine injured or bereaved; and thirdly, to compel the Government and Pharmaceutical companies to look again at how to deal with the inconvenient fact of vaccine injury and bereavement and the lives that it has shattered.
It was only when other European countries raised the alarm of a rare serious side effect causing the devastating blood clotting and low platelet condition that the UK admitted there was an issue. There was very little information released to the public about this risk and people, some of whom were very young, continued to be harmed.
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Read MoreImminent milestones in medical technology may be moving too fast for comfort with legislation creating laws to allow AI to replace doctors and prescribe drugs, the FDA proposing AI perform drug safety testing, and new nanotechnology used to control the brains of lab mice remotely. Will the new health paradigm shift from the MAHA movement help slow these frightening developments?
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Read MoreDel has a message for Senator Bill Cassidy, who headed the second of two fiery hearings of RFK Jr. for head of HHS.
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