The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) closed enrollment in V-safe, a health survey program created to monitor the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, but the longstanding Vaccine Adverse ...

PHILADELPHIA – The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is an open, national surveillance system used by medical professionals as well as the public at large to self-report potential adverse ...

PHILADELPHIA – The federal health system for reporting “adverse events” after vaccination, known as VAERS, is designed to assist in the early detection of complications and responsive action. But when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laidler was hardly alone in submitting his symptoms to VAERS. Each year, more than 38,000 Americans report possible side effects ...

A recent study sheds light on issues surrounding the system's functionality, transparency, and responsiveness. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), comanaged by the CDC and FDA, may not ...

With former director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., out of the picture, HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) appears to be setting his ...

A US reporting system designed to detect potential safety issues with vaccines is supposed to be user-friendly, responsive, and transparent. But an investigation published by The BMJ today finds it's ...

There’s no way of knowing if anyone believed Dr. James Laidler back in 2004 when he reported that a flu vaccine had turned him into the Incredible Hulk. The symptoms he described certainly fit—green ...