North America | United States | Corruption

FDA: Government Recommends Untested, Unlicensed Vaccines for Pregnant Women

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In response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the FDA has admitted, for the first time, that government agencies, including the CDC, are recommending vaccines for pregnant women that have neither been licensed for pregnant mothers by FDA nor tested for safety in clinical trials. The lawsuit, filed by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) attorney, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on behalf of Informed Consent Action Network(ICAN), a vaccine safety advocacy group, sought all clinical trial data used by FDA to approve influenza vaccines for pregnant women. The FDA’s terse reply: “We
North America | United States | Ethics

Study: Women may do the worst in interviews with men who say they support equality

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A new study finds women have the worst outcomes when they interview with men who claim to support equality, but show high levels of implicit bias. Here’s what to do about it. The study found that, when interviewing with men who’d shown high levels of implicit bias, women performed poorly (as determined by a third-party evaluator, as well as the women’s self evaluations). But here’s the really surprising thing: The very worst outcomes happened when women interviewed with men who showed high levels of implicit bias, but low explicit bias—in other words, those who told the researchers
South Asia | Nepal | Ethics

In Nepal, Women As Second-Class Citizen Takes A Sad New Twist

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Sabin Shrestha, the executive director of the Forum for Woman, Law and Development, says it is really an issue of male control. "They think if they give equal rights to women in terms of citizenship, then the patriarchy system will be destroyed," she says. Former prime minister and Assembly member Madhav Kumar believes mothers should not have the same rights as fathers. The Interim Constitution made in 2007 clearly states that "any person whose father or mother was a citizen of Nepal at his or her birth is a Nepalese citizen." But in practice, women in this patriarchal society still face