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- “Detransitioner” sues doctors after being given irreversible gender treatments as child (2023)
News Report · 2023
The National Desk / Idaho News
The article quotes Kaiser’s public response that its care follows medical standards, includes multidisciplinary evaluation and support, and leaves decisions with patients and parents. This is…
- 15 CSR 60-17.010 Experimental Interventions to Treat Gender Dysphoria—Emergency Rule (2023)
Government Record · 2023
Missouri Attorney General
The 2023 emergency rule imposed conditions on specified interventions and originally stated an April 27 effective date and February 2024 expiration. Its actual early termination is…
- 1983 Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule (Table 1), reproduced in ACIP meeting slide deck
Government Record · 1983
ACIP / CDC (slide deck by A. Siri for Dec 4-5, 2025 ACIP meeting)
1983 schedule: DTP x3 + OPV x2 by 6 months; MMR at 15 months; DTP-4/OPV-3 at 18 months; DTP-5/OPV-4 at 4-6 years; Td at 14-16 years.…
- 21 CFR 610.15 — Constituent materials (general requirements for biological products)
Government Record
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (eCFR, current)
The federal ceiling the book alludes to: no single US vaccine dose may contain more than 0.85-1.25 mg of aluminum. Infant-schedule vaccines that contain aluminum adjuvants…
- 34 C.F.R. §300.174: Prohibition on Mandatory Medication (2024)
Government Record · 2024
U.S. Department of Education; Office of the Federal Register
The binding implementing regulation repeats the prohibition for all controlled-substance schedules and preserves school consultation and classroom observations. No separate Education Department guidance document was located…
- 42 CFR 100.3 — Vaccine injury table
Government Record
HHS (HRSA), Code of Federal Regulations
The Table lists covered vaccines and presumptive ('on-Table') injuries with onset windows (anaphylaxis, encephalopathy, SIRVA, GBS, etc.); qualifications and aids to interpretation define each condition. Coverage…
- 42 U.S.C. 300aa-22 — Standards of responsibility (1986)
Document · 1986
U.S. Congress (as added by Pub. L. 99-660, Title III, Sec. 311(a))
Core NCVIA liability shield. Subsection (c) additionally bars liability 'solely due to the manufacturer's failure to provide direct warnings to the injured party.' Statute itself is…
- 42 U.S.C. 300aa-26 — Vaccine information (1986)
Document · 1986
U.S. Congress (NCVIA, as amended by Pub. L. 103-183)
The NCVIA vaccine-information provision: the Secretary must develop vaccine information materials, and subsection (d) requires each health care provider administering a Vaccine Injury Table vaccine to…
- 42 U.S.C. 5106a, CAPTA Grants to States for Child Abuse or Neglect Prevention and Treatment (2023 edition)
Government Record · 2023
Office of the Law Revision Counsel
CAPTA, the federal child abuse law. States must give immunity to people who report abuse in good faith, keep reports confidential, and give people a way…
- 42 U.S.C. 625, Limitations on authorization of appropriations (2021 edition)
Government Record · 2021
Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Title IV-B, the federal child welfare services program aimed at keeping families together, has a fixed yearly cap ($325 million a year for 2017 through 2021),…
- 42 U.S.C. 670, Congressional declaration of purpose (2023 edition)
Government Record · 2023
Office of the Law Revision Counsel
The purpose section of Title IV-E, the federal foster care funding program. It covers foster care, adoption assistance, guardianship and prevention. Federal payments for eligible costs…
- 42 U.S.C. 671(a)(20), State plan for foster care and adoption assistance (2023 edition)
Government Record · 2023
Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Federal law requires fingerprint-based national criminal record checks for prospective foster and adoptive parents, plus child abuse registry checks.
- 42 U.S.C. 672, Foster care maintenance payments program (2023 edition)
Government Record · 2023
Office of the Law Revision Counsel
The federal foster care maintenance payment program. A child's eligibility for federal money is still tied to the old AFDC welfare rules as they stood on…
- 42 U.S.C. 673b, Adoption and Legal Guardianship Incentive Payments (2023 edition)
Government Record · 2023
Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Current federal law on adoption and guardianship incentive payments: $5,000 per foster child adoption above the state's base rate, $7,500 and $10,000 for older children, $4,000…
- 42 U.S.C. 674, Payments to States (2023 edition)
Government Record · 2023
Office of the Law Revision Counsel
The section that pays states back for foster care costs: maintenance payments at the federal Medicaid matching rate and administrative costs generally at 50 percent, claimed…
- 5 Ways We’re Toughening Our Approach to Protect Families on YouTube and YouTube Kids
Document · 2017
Johanna Wright, Vice President of Product Management, YouTube
YouTube's November 2017 response to disturbing videos aimed at children ("Elsagate"): over 50 channels terminated and thousands of videos removed. YouTube's own figures.
- 72nd Report on Alleged Irregularities in the Conduct of Studies Using Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine by PATH in India (2013)
Government Record · 2013
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare, Rajya Sabha
The Indian parliamentary committee's 72nd report finding serious ethical and regulatory violations in the PATH HPV demonstration projects — including consent irregularities and deaths 'summarily dismissed'…
- A Comparison of DSM-IV and DSM-5 Panel Members’ Financial Associations with Industry: A Pernicious Problem Persists (2012)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2012
Lisa Cosgrove and Sheldon Krimsky
The authors reported industry ties for 69% of the 29-member DSM-5 task force and examined 141 members across 13 panels. They compared the task-force figure with…
- A Comprehensive Immunization Strategy to Eliminate Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in the United States: Recommendations of the ACIP. Part I: Immunization of Infants, Children, and Adolescents (2005)
Government Record · 2005
ACIP (Mast EE, et al.)
Updated the 1991 strategy and recommended a universal birth dose for all infants born to HBsAg-negative mothers (administered before hospital discharge), while reaffirming that vaccine +…
- A Follow-Up Study of Boys With Gender Identity Disorder (2021)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2021
Singh D, Bradley SJ, Zucker KJ
Largest follow-up of clinic-referred boys (n=139, CAMH Toronto, assessed 1975-2009): 87.8% desisted at follow-up. The paper itself addresses critiques of desistance methodology (threshold vs subthreshold diagnosis;…
- A Look Behind the Screens: Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services
Government Record · 2024
Federal Trade Commission staff
The 6(b) report covers practices during 2019–2020 at nine companies and describes extensive data collection, advertising uses, algorithms, data analytics and AI, and insufficient privacy and…
- A Majority of Teens Have Experienced Some Form of Cyberbullying
Document · 2018
Monica Anderson, Pew Research Center
Pew’s 59% combines six experiences: offensive name-calling, false rumors, unsolicited explicit images, constant monitoring-type questions, physical threats, and nonconsensual sharing of explicit images. The survey covered…
- A national and state profile of leading health problems and health care quality for US children: key insurance disparities and across-state variations (2011)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2011
Bethell CD, Kogan MD, Strickland BB, Schor EL, Robertson J, Newacheck PW
The source of the '54%' figure: the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health. The 54.1% includes overweight, obesity, and 'at risk for developmental delay' — screening-risk…
- A population-based study of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination and autism (2002)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2002
Madsen KM, Hviid A, Vestergaard M, et al.
Retrospective cohort of all 537,303 children born in Denmark 1991-1998 (440,655 MMR-vaccinated, 82%); 316 cases of autistic disorder and 422 of other autistic-spectrum disorders. Adjusted relative…