Source: Children’s Health Defense

More Parents Refusing Vitamin K Shots for Newborns, Study Finds

NBC News reported:

More parents are refusing vitamin K shots for their newborns, a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association found. It’s a trend that experts worry could have deadly consequences.

Babies are born with very low levels of vitamin K, a nutrient the body needs for blood to clot, leaving them at risk for severe bleeding early in life. In the early 1960s, hospitals in the U.S. began giving newborns shots of the vitamin within the first six hours of birth to prevent bleeding, including bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract or brain.

Dr. Kristan Scott, a neonatologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the leader of the study, said he and his co-authors noticed a rise in parents turning down the shot in their own practices, prompting the research. Still, Scott said, he wasn’t fully expecting the results. “The increase is not surprising, but the degree to which it did increase did catch me off guard,” he said.

I Developed a Brain Tumor the Size of a Lime at 30 — Now I’m One of Over 1,700 Women Suing My Birth Control Company

The New York Post reported:

Elizabeth Fleurisma tears up as she runs her fingers over the scars that map her scalp.

The Long Island mom was stunned to discover at the age of 30 that she had a brain tumor the size of a lime. She survived a 16-hour surgery and weeks of radiation — yet a piece of the tumor remains lodged in her skull, disrupting her daily life. “When I came out of surgery, when I came home, it’s almost like I didn’t even know my environment,” Fleurisma, who turns 33 this week, told The Post.

“Sometimes when I’m trying to speak, I’ll forget a word,” she added. “It’s not easy healing from these things or getting back to where you left off.” Fleurisma, who lives in Centereach, believes her meningioma came from the use of Depo-Provera birth control for eight years.

She’s one of 75 New Yorkers suing Pfizer, the manufacturer of Depo-Provera, for allegedly failing to adequately warn users of the increased risk of potentially devastating brain tumors. “I’ve filed cases on behalf of about 150 women and have many other clients that we’re still evaluating, and Elizabeth’s tumor is the largest of all the ones I’ve seen,” Fleurisma’s attorney, Ellen Relkin, told The Post.

Insurance Coverage of Hepatitis B Vaccine Won’t Change, Industry and Officials Say

CNN reported:

Parents will still be able to get the hepatitis B vaccine for their children at no cost even though the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention’s (CDC’s) vaccine advisers recommended a major change to the immunization practice. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, whose members were chosen by the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted Friday to end universal hepatitis B vaccination recommendations for newborns.

The revised recommendation calls for mothers who test negative for the virus to consult with a doctor or other health care provider before having their babies vaccinated. This could create confusion and place additional hurdles in front of parents and result in fewer children being immunized.

The advisers also voted in favor of recommending that babies who don’t receive a dose at birth should wait at least two months before being immunized.

Florida Case Seeks to Ban mRNA Vaccines as ‘Bioweapons’

TrialSite News reported:

A Florida psychotherapist, Dr. Joseph Sansone, has filed an unusual lawsuit seeking to prohibit the distribution of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in the state, arguing they qualify as “biological and technological weapons of mass destruction.” His pro se case, first filed in December 2024 in Leon County, names Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Attorney General in their official capacities.

Sansone argues that mRNA vaccines fall under Florida’s weapons-of-mass-destruction statute, which includes devices or agents involving biological materials capable of causing harm. He contends the vaccines meet that definition because they use engineered genetic material and, in his view, pose significant health risks.

Sansone, in an email to TrialSite News, also asserts a personal injury claim, arguing that “shedding” from vaccinated individuals — an unsupported concept in mainstream science — caused his congestive heart failure and triple-bypass surgery in 2023. Although experts emphasize that mRNA vaccines do not shed and cannot transfer between people the way live-virus vaccines can, Sansone argues the injections violate his constitutional right to life under Florida law and endanger others who decline vaccination.

People Taking Ozempic Are Losing Muscle Mass — and It’s Freaking Them Out

Vox reported:

We’re used to seeing Serena Williams on our TVs, muscles flexing, smashing a tennis ball past her opponent. But in a recent 30-second commercial, Williams traded the racket for a GLP-1 drug injector pen. Williams, whose most recent child was born in 2023, has become a spokeswoman in her post-retirement days for Ro, one of the many boutique health care firms to get in on the GLP-1 craze. “They say GLP-1s for weight loss is a shortcut — it’s not. It’s science,” she says during the spot. “After kids, it’s the medicine my body needed.”

But there’s just one problem with the pitch: GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are, in some ways, a shortcut. “Americans always want the fucking pill,” Dr. Robert Lustig, a metabolic scientist at the University of California-San Francisco, told me. “I view GLP-1s like a Band-Aid. … There’s nothing wrong with a Band-Aid. But what if you didn’t clean your wound and you just put the Band-Aid on? The Band-Aid is necessary, but it’s not sufficient.”

The consequences of patients slapping on the Band-Aid — taking a GLP-1 — without treating the underlying issue with the kind of healthy eating and exercise that are still necessary even with these drugs is becoming clear. Scientists have found that some GLP-1 patients can lose significant muscle mass, as well as a loss of functional strength, due to a lack of energy. Rather than feel fitter and ready to go out in the world or onto the tennis court, these are patients who find walking up the stairs to be almost debilitating.

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Secures Major Win Against John­son & John­son and Ken­vue for Ille­gal­ly Doing Busi­ness in Texas

Texas Office of the Attorney General reported:

Attorney General Ken Paxton secured legal victory against Johnson & Johnson (“J&J”), Kenvue Inc., and Kenvue Brands LLC (“Kenvue”) after a district court granted the State’s request for a Temporary Restraining Order (“TRO”) against the company for operating in Texas without the legally required registrations. To read a copy of Attorney General Paxton’s lawsuit against the companies, click here.

The TRO finds that there is good cause to believe that J&J and Kenvue have violated and will likely continue to violate Chapter 9 of the Texas Business Organizations Code because they are unregistered foreign entities transacting business in Texas. The District Court will decide on Dec. 15, 2025, whether J&J and Kenvue must cease transacting business in Texas if they continue to refuse to comply with state business registration requirements. The Court declared that upon registration J&J and Kenvue consent to personal jurisdiction by Texas Courts in any case filed in Texas.

“I will not allow Big Pharma to operate above the law or put their greed ahead of Texans’ well-being,” said Attorney General Paxton. “Kenvue and J&J have shown themselves to be corporations focused on seeking profits above all else, no matter how unethical or illegal their actions may be. The reign of these foreign corporations operating in Texas without even registering or acknowledging our laws ends now.”