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- DCFS placed troubled teen girl with 24-year-old pimp as foster parent
News Report · 2023
CBS Chicago
CBS Chicago reported that Illinois DCFS approved Erick Johnson as a "fictive kin" caregiver for a 16-year-old girl. He did not go through standard foster parent…
- Deaths Reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, United States, 1997-2013 (2015)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2015
Moro PL, Arana J, Cano M, Lewis P, Shimabukuro TT
CDC authors reviewed all 2,149 U.S. death reports to VAERS July 1997-Dec 2013 (68.4% in children; median age 0.5 years), using medical records, autopsy reports, and…
- Decision Memorandum: Adopting a Revised Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule (2026)
Government Record · 2026
Bhattacharya (NIH), Oz (CMS), Makary (FDA); assessment TAB 1 by Hoeg and Kulldorff; signed by Acting CDC Director Jim O'Neill
States 'the United States currently recommends more childhood vaccines than any peer nation, and more than twice as many vaccine doses as some European nations.' Category…
- Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19, 85 FR 15198 (2020)
Government Record · 2020
Secretary of HHS (Alex M. Azar II)
Provides immunity 'against any claim of loss caused by, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from the manufacture, distribution, administration, or use' of covered countermeasures…
- Demaree v. Pederson, 887 F.3d 870
Court Filing · 2018
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit held that only a reasonable fear of imminent physical injury or sexual abuse justifies removing a child without a court order.
- Department of Justice Subpoenas Doctors and Clinics Involved in Performing Transgender Medical Procedures on Children (2025)
Government Record · 2025
U.S. Department of Justice
DOJ announced more than 20 subpoenas and described investigations including healthcare fraud and false statements. The release announces investigations, not adjudicated violations.
- Department of Justice Weaponization Working Group Report
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Department of Justice
The report reproduces Attorney General Garland’s October 4, 2021 memorandum and criticizes the 2021 process. The memorandum distinguishes protected debate from threats and intimidation.
- DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, 489 U.S. 189
Court Filing · 1989
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court held that the state had no constitutional duty to protect a child from abuse by a private person when the state had not…
- Despite record federal lobbying spending, the pharmaceutical and health product industry lost their biggest legislative bet in 2022 (2023)
Document · 2023
OpenSecrets
OpenSecrets' own accounting: the pharmaceutical and health products industry spent a record $372 million on federal lobbying in 2022 with 1,834 lobbyists — more than three…
- Devereaux v. Abbey, 263 F.3d 1070
Court Filing · 2001
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, recognized a clearly established right not to face criminal charges based on evidence the government deliberately fabricated.
- Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers
Government Record · 2019
Federal Trade Commission
The FTC's plain-language guide for influencers: if you are paid or have a relationship with a brand, you have to make that obvious in the post.
- Docket, L.W. v. Skrmetti, No. 3:23-cv-00376 (2023)
Court Filing · 2023
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
The federal docket records three civil investigative demands to VUMC as exhibits filed on June 1, 2023. It establishes that the demands entered the court record,…
- Doe v. Heck, 327 F.3d 492
Court Filing · 2003
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
The Seventh Circuit held that caseworkers violated the Constitution by removing and interviewing a child at a private school without a warrant, probable cause, consent or…
- DOH suspends dengue immunization program (Dengvaxia) (2017)
Document · 2017
Philippine Daily Inquirer (newsinfo.inquirer.net)
Contemporaneous report of the Philippine Department of Health suspending the Dengvaxia school program after Sanofi's serostate disclosure: more than 733,000 schoolchildren had been vaccinated under the…
- DOJ Office of Justice Programs: Protecting Our Children, speech by Deborah Daniels (2004)
Government Record · 2004
Deborah J. Daniels, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs
A 2004 Justice Department speech citing a National Institute of Justice estimate that more than 200,000 children are trafficked in the U.S. each year. A national…
- DOJ Secures Agreements with NYU and UPMC to End Pediatric “Gender-Affirming Care” (2026)
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Department of Justice
DOJ announced NYU and UPMC agreements to end pediatric interventions and pay $8.5 million and $950,000 respectively, and reported similar agreements with four other systems. The…
- Dozens of Public Health and Policy Experts, Along with the American Public Health Association, Urge the CDC to Maintain Universal Newborn Hepatitis B Vaccination (2025)
Document · 2025
George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (public comment; 73 deans/scholars + APHA)
Records organized opposition ahead of the December 2025 ACIP vote and the impact estimates for the 1991 universal-infant policy: pediatric HBV infections down 99% (1991-2019); immunization…
- Dozens of States Are Missing Thousands of Foster Kids
News Report · 2023
Stateline/States Newsroom
Reporting on a federal audit that found an estimated 34,800 cases of missing foster children went unreported across 46 states. A case can be a repeat…
- Dr. Andrew Moulden (1963-2013) — genealogical entry
Document · 2013
FamilySearch (user-contributed genealogy)
The only located record of Andrew Moulden's death: a user-contributed FamilySearch entry stating he died November 4, 2013, in North Carolina at age 49. No official…
- Dr. Julie Gerberding named president of Merck Vaccines (2009)
Document · 2009
Merck & Co. (reported by FierceBiotech)
Merck's announcement that former CDC director Julie Gerberding (CDC director 2002-2009) would become president of Merck Vaccines, then a roughly $5 billion global vaccine business —…
- Dr. Leon Eisenberg: ADHD Is a “Fictitious Disease”? (2014)
News Report · 2014
David Mikkelson / Snopes
Snopes reports that the interview occurred in 2009, seven months before Eisenberg died, and that his point concerned overestimated genetic predisposition and underexamined psychosocial causes. It…
- Draft Guidance for Industry; Consumer-Directed Broadcast Advertisements; Availability (1997)
Government Record · 1997
Food and Drug Administration
FDA announced the draft approach in August 1997 and requested comments. The notice grounded it in existing advertising law and regulations.
- Drug Pricing Report (House Committee on Oversight and Reform, majority staff) (2021)
Government Record · 2021
House Committee on Oversight and Reform, majority staff
House Oversight majority staff report documenting industry lobbying of $92 million in Q1 2021 alone and $230.2 million by ten major companies from 2017-2020, alongside campaign…
- Dynamics of obesity and chronic health conditions among children and youth (2010)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2010
Van Cleave J, Gortmaker SL, Perrin JM
The source of the '12.8% (1994)' figure: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child cohorts, defining chronic conditions as parent-reported conditions limiting activities or schooling, or requiring medicine/special…