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The Annals of Inner Medication, an influential U.S. medical journal, is rejecting a name from U.S. Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a big Danish research that discovered that aluminum components in vaccines don’t improve well being dangers for youngsters, Reuters studies. Kennedy has lengthy promoted doubts about vaccine security and efficacy, and as well being secretary has upended the federal authorities’s course of for recommending immunization. A current report indicated he has been contemplating whether or not to provoke a evaluate of pictures that include aluminum, which he says are linked to autoimmune illnesses and allergic reactions. The research, which was funded by the Danish authorities and revealed within the July concern of the journal, analyzed nationwide registry knowledge for greater than 1.2 million kids over greater than 20 years. It didn’t discover proof that publicity to aluminum in vaccines had brought about an elevated danger for autoimmune, atopic or allergic, or neurodevelopmental problems.
Vinay Prasad is returning to the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration to renew his function overseeing vaccine, gene remedy, and blood product regulation, STAT tells us. It isn’t clear whether or not Prasad will even nonetheless function chief medical and scientific officer. He left the company two weeks in the past, amid escalating tensions associated to a gene remedy product for Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy made by Sarepta Therapeutics and a marketing campaign launched by right-wing influencer Laura Loomer, during which she criticized Prasad’s earlier posts describing himself as liberal. The backlash culminated in his ouster on the finish of July, which CNN reported got here instantly from White Home Chief of Employees Susie Wiles, who apparently needed to guard President Trump from having to reply for Prasad’s prior political statements. The transfer, went instantly in opposition to well being secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA commissioner Marty Makary’s needs.
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