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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

Keila Ravelo: From ‘Women Worth Watching’ to Under Arrest

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Just weeks before she quit her job at a white-shoe law firm in New York and was arrested on charges of stealing more than $5 million from two former employers and a client, Keila Ravelo was named one of 100 “Women Worth Watching” by a diversity publication. Ms. Ravelo’s photo and bio are still posted on the website of Profiles in Diversity Journal even though she is now facing criminal charges that could send her to prison. Other alleged actions by Ms. Ravelo could unravel the largest antitrust settlement in history – a $6 billion pact between Visa, MasterCard and millions of mercha

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