The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) was established to protect public health. Now it's being used against it.

Vaccine safety monitoring in the US is a multilayered process that combines passive and active functions, as well as expert ...

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US The Food and Drug Administration is seeking to ...

Banning children from riding in cars is ridiculous, but there's more data to support it than there is for not vaccinating ...

A memo from Dr. Vinay Prasad​, the head of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, may signal an effort to to rewrite the rules governing the U.S. vaccine system.

FDA officials want to rewrite the rules governing vaccines, but former leaders warn the changes could have lasting ...

A federal vaccine reporting system that was little known before the COVID-19 pandemic has recently become a household word for some, particularly those concerned about COVID vaccines. Viral headlines ...

Banning children from riding in cars is ridiculous, but there's more data to support it than there is for not vaccinating ...

Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that covid vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,” 12 former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary ...

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VAERS-Tools Tools for data mining Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) This is a simple tool for summarizing adverse event symptoms from the VAERS database. This program is written in the ...