Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week.
FDA Probes Harms of COVID Vax in Pregnancy
Top health officials are hunting for examples of potential harm COVID vaccines have caused pregnant women as part of a larger attack on vaccines, the Wall Street Journal reported.
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research director Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, are seeking to waive privacy protections on certain data about COVID vaccines and pregnant women, the article stated.
This "might allow the administration to publicly highlight more detail on what they see as potential harms of the shots," the outlet reported.
Makary is also preparing a report on child deaths tied to COVID vaccines based on family interviews and autopsies.
Before he became HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the COVID shots the "deadliest vaccine ever made" and petitioned FDA to remove them from the market.
Whistleblowers Detail Internal Strife at NIH
Two NIH whistleblowers allege they were removed from leadership for objecting to the Trump administration's efforts to "undermine vaccines, flout court orders, withhold research money and politicize the grant-making process," the New York Times reported.
The whistleblower complaints were filed by Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, who directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
The California Department of Justice has sued Inland Empire Health Plan for allegedly submitting false claims to Medicaid. The lawsuit alleges IEHP misused funds and knowingly retained overpayment...