Posted April 4, 2018
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Get Informed on U.S. Legislation That Could Restrict Your Health Freedom
Vaccine Laws
Posted September 30, 2019
Welcome to NVIC’s webpage on vaccine laws. Here you will be able to access resources that will assist you in making educated vaccine decisions. For example, you can learn about the differences between vaccine requirements that govern being able to attend school or daycare and a federal vaccine recommendation. There are also resources below that will help you find out which types of vaccine exemptions are available in your state, how to protect and expand vaccine exemptions, and much more. Read more.
FDA: We Know Better Than Doctors!
In a sneaky move, the FDA has extended its power over how doctors can practice medicine. Action Alert! Doctors, be advised: the FDA is starting to regulate the practice of medicine. Buried in the 4,155 page spending bill Congress recently approved is the innocuous-sounding “Bans of Devices for One or More Intended Uses.” This dangerous provision allows the FDA to ban off-label uses of medical devices while leaving them approved for other uses. This provision expands the FDA’s power to dictate what your doctor can and can’t do. Read more.
Annual COVID Shot Moves Forward
Government health officials are plowing ahead with plans for all Americans to get yearly COVID boosters—but what does the science say? Action Alert! Recently, an FDA advisory committee voted to update the COVID shots Americans receive to include the updated bivalent shot instead of the original formula. This is part of the FDA’s plan to make COVID shots a yearly occurrence like flu shots, where each year we try to guess which strain will be the most prevalent. Read more.
Breaking: Federal Judge Blocks California Law Punishing Doctors for ‘COVID Misinformation’
A federal judge in California on Wednesday granted Children’s Health Defense (CHD)-California Chapter’s request for a preliminary injunction to block a California law that would have allowed the state’s medical boards to punish doctors for spreading “COVID-19 misinformation.” Read more.
FDA Gives Accelerated Approval for Risky Alzheimer’s Pill
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval for the Alzheimer’s disease drug lecanemab (Leqembi). The drug, a monoclonal antibody, binds to amyloid beta in the brain. An 18-month study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found Leqembi reduced markers of amyloid in early Alzheimer’s disease and led to “moderately less decline” in cognition and function compared to placebo. However, the study added, the drug was “associated with adverse events.” Read more.
FDA Rejects CBD as a Supplement
Today the FDA officially denied requests to permit CBD in food or supplements. Action Alert! The FDA just released a statement explaining that the “existing regulatory framework” for foods and supplements are not appropriate for CBD and that a new regulatory pathway is needed. The agency also denied three Citizens Petitions requesting the agency issue a regulation that would allow CBD to be sold as a supplement. Read more.
Global action: Stop genetically engineered trees
We have only a few days – until Jan 26 – to submit comments to the US Department of Agriculture rejecting their plan to allow the release of genetically engineered (GE) trees into wild forests in the US – and ultimately Canada. Read more.
USDA Moves to Stop Organic Food Fraud, Finally
The USDA has finally finished a long-awaited rule that will help clean up fraud in the organic food sector. This rule, put together by the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), is urgently needed given widespread fraud that has been reported in the organics industry. The level of deception has reached epidemic proportions: a USDA study found that 40% of all organic food sold in the US tested positive for prohibited pesticides. Read more.
FDA: We Know Better than Doctors!
In a sneaky move, the FDA has extended its power over how doctors can practice medicine. Action Alert! Doctors, be advised: the FDA is starting to regulate the practice of medicine. Buried in the 4,155 page spending bill Congress recently approved is the innocuous-sounding “Bans of Devices for One or More Intended Uses.” This dangerous provision allows the FDA to ban off-label uses of medical devices while leaving them approved for other uses. This provision expands the FDA’s power to dictate what your doctor can and can’t do. Read more.
