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- Leading Law Firms Partner to Achieve a Landmark Victory: $485 Million Verdict
Document · 2023
Law firms' case release
The plaintiffs' lawyers' release on the $485 million New Mexico foster care verdict, identifying the case (D-117-CV-2019-00136, Rio Arriba County).
- Letter re Transgender Care for Children (2022)
Document · 2022
American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association, and Children’s Hospital Association
The joint letter asks the Attorney General to investigate and prosecute those responsible for coordinating, provoking, and carrying out bomb threats and threats of personal violence…
- Letter to Julian Knight MP regarding the ICO investigation into Cambridge Analytica
Government Record · 2020
Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner
The ICO found likely political-targeting purposes but could not determine which GSR data was used in a specific campaign. It also found no further evidence changing…
- Letter to NIH Director Bertagnolli re NIH-funded transgender youth study (2024)
Government Record · 2024
U.S. Senate HELP Committee (Ranking Member Cassidy et al.)
Senate HELP Committee letter pressing NIH over the unpublished taxpayer-funded study; documents baseline cohort data from Chen et al. 2021 (28.6% elevated depression; 23.6% lifetime suicidal…
- Letter to Secretary Kennedy Regarding Errors and Misrepresentations in the MAHA Assessment (2025)
Government Record · 2025
Frank Pallone Jr., Yvette D. Clarke, and Diana DeGette
Three House Democratic ranking members identified six apparently nonexistent cited sources and alleged continuing mischaracterizations after revisions. This is a congressional challenge and information request, not…
- Light From Self-Luminous Tablet Computers Can Affect Evening Melatonin, Delaying Sleep
Document · 2013
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Wood, Rea, Plitnick, and Figueiro study authors
Thirteen participants used full-brightness tablets. The institutional account reports about 22% suppression after two hours and corneal illuminance ranging from 5 lux, unlikely to affect melatonin,…
- Lobbying Expenditures and Campaign Contributions by the Pharmaceutical and Health Product Industry in the United States, 1999-2018 (2020)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2020
Wouters OJ, McKee M, Luyten J
Peer-reviewed analysis of OpenSecrets/Center for Responsive Politics and Senate Office of Public Records data: $4.7 billion in pharmaceutical and health-product federal lobbying from 1999-2018, averaging $233…
- Long-term outcomes of myocarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in adolescents and young adults (2022)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2022
Kracalik I, Oster ME, Broder KR, et al.
CDC follow-up survey of patients with post-mRNA-vaccine myocarditis at least 90 days after diagnosis: most were considered recovered by clinicians, but a quarter remained on daily…
- LUPRON DEPOT-PED (leuprolide acetate) prescribing information (2022)
Government Record · 2022
AbbVie / U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Drugs@FDA)
FDA label: the only pediatric indication is central precocious puberty – no gender-dysphoria indication (use for gender dysphoria is off-label). Postmarketing section lists pseudotumor cerebri (idiopathic…
- Machelle Hobson, YouTube Mom Behind Fantastic Adventures Channel, Indicted on 30 Counts
News Report · 2019
Associated Press / CBS News
CBS and AP, March 2019: Machelle Hobson, mother behind the Fantastic Adventures YouTube channel, was indicted on 30 counts of child abuse, kidnapping and assault. Charges,…
- Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment (2025)
Government Record · 2025
Make America Healthy Again Commission
The assessment discusses prescribing, withdrawal, antipsychotic adverse effects, and stimulant-associated height loss. Its broad causal wording should be read alongside the underlying study designs, including the…
- Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy: Recommendations of the MAHA Commission to President Donald J. Trump (2025)
Government Record · 2025
Make America Healthy Again Commission
The strategy proposed a working group to evaluate prescribing patterns for SSRIs, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and other drugs. These were planned evaluations, not completed findings.
- Measles, mumps, rubella vaccination and autism: a nationwide cohort study (2019)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2019
Hviid A, Stellfeld M, Wohlfahrt J, Melbye M
Danish nationwide cohort of 657,461 children born 1999-2010 followed to Aug 31, 2013; 6,517 autism cases. Fully adjusted hazard ratio for autism after MMR vaccination: 0.93…
- Media and Young Minds
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2016
Council on Communications and Media, American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics' 2016 policy on media for children under 5: it reviews the possible benefits and the health concerns, and says the research…
- Medicaid Program: Prohibition on Federal Medicaid and CHIP Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures for Children and Youth (2026)
Government Record · 2026
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
The final rule, effective October 13, 2026, prohibits federal Medicaid payment for covered procedures under 18 and federal CHIP payment under 19, with a limited transition…
- Medication for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Risk for Depression: A Nationwide Longitudinal Cohort Study (2016)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2016
Zheng Chang et al.
In 38,752 Swedish individuals with ADHD, medication was associated with lower three-year depression risk, HR 0.58, and 20% lower concurrent depression occurrence in within-individual analysis. This…
- Merck & Co. Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (2026)
Corporate Filing · 2026
Merck & Co., Inc.
Merck's latest Form 10-K reports Gardasil/Gardasil 9 revenue of $5,233 million in 2025, down 39% from $8,583 million in 2024 and $8,886 million in 2023.
- Meta State AGs Consent Judgment
Court Filing · 2026
U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; MDL No. 3047
The entered judgment resolves the states’ claims and incorporates conduct provisions, audits, age assurance, teen limits, parental tools, and payments. It was entered without final adjudication…
- Meta-Analysis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms, Restriction Diet, and Synthetic Food Color Additives (2012)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2012
Nigg JT, Lewis K, Edinger T, Falk M
The meta-analysis found a small restriction-diet effect and small food-color effects that varied by informant, study quality, and publication-bias adjustment. Parent-reported food-color g was 0.18 and…
- Miami Herald: Perversion of Justice (2018)
News Report · 2018
Julie K. Brown and Miami Herald staff
Miami Herald, November 2018: Julie K. Brown's "Perversion of Justice" series on Epstein's abuse of teenage girls in Palm Beach and the secret federal deal that…
- Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth: Outcomes at Age 21
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2007
Chapin Hall
Chapin Hall's long-running study of former foster youth in three Midwest states, at age 21 (590 young adults interviewed).
- Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth: Outcomes at Age 23 and 24
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2010
Chapin Hall
Chapin Hall's long-running study of former foster youth in three Midwest states, at ages 23 and 24: 37% had been homeless or couch surfed since leaving…
- Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth: Outcomes at Age 26
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2011
Chapin Hall
Chapin Hall's study at age 26: 31% of former foster youth reported homelessness or couch surfing since the previous interview, and about 5% were incarcerated at…
- Mind, Body & Spirit: The Health Benefits of Nature
Document · 2010
National Wildlife Federation
The advocacy fact sheet is the located origin of the 4–7-minute and seven-hour wording.