It has taken Pfizer nearly 2 years to publish a paper showing any data regarding whether the mRNA is actually made into a protein product. Two years!!! This work should have been available before the emergency use authorization (EUA) was granted for the vaccines. Unfortunately, none of the basic bench-to-bedside…

Happiness: The world is so full of a number of things I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson A Shot to Save the World chronicles a number of events that contributed to the rapid deployment of COVID-19 vaccines under FDA’s emergency use authorization (EUA). Its author, Greg Zuckerman is a business journalist. He expertly covers the investment, business, and economic impacts of mRNA technology and COVID vaccines. …

In 1906, Alois Alzheimer first reported a connection between dementia and plaques after postmortem examination of the brain and medical records of a patient with strange behavioral symptoms. Dementia is a progressive, irreversible brain disease that slowly destroys cognitive skills and memory function. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common…

While we are still reeling from mishandling of COVID-19 pandemic, the last few months have been filled with re-emergence of infectious diseases that were thought to be eradicated in the US and/or under control in the rest of the world. …

Over interpreting results and sound bites in science are dangerous but seem to have become the norm. A Linked-in post that my husband chanced upon was inferring about the power of “hope” from a rat behavioral experiment. My husband read the post aloud (taken verbatim from the post)- “An interesting…

Seeking participation from both unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals worldwide with or without COVID and/or adverse events for a study approved by institutional review board. COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has touched all of us in some way or the other. There are 3 different categories of vaccines being used- (i)…

mRNAs were touted as safer options compared with DNA vaccines. Reason- mRNAs will not influence our genetic material or integrate in our genome, unlike DNA vaccines, which potentially can. New studies suggest that this is not the case. The notion that viral mRNAs are innocuous and will not modulate our…

Researchers at the Imperial College of London performed a unique and a much-needed study. The authors should be commended for this work and for publishing these findings. The participants must be commended as well for their courage. We should keep in mind that this valuable data and insight would not…

LA Times reported that California is asking its sick, vaccinated medical workers to return to work. “As hospitals reel, California tells coronavirus-positive medical workers to stay on the job”, the headline reads. This is not only hypocritical, but outright dangerous. The hospitals, not just in California, but nation-wide as well…