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Two Vaccine Americas? ACOG's Independent Pregnancy Vaccine Guidance Signals a Growing Public Health Divide
16+ hour, 10+ min ago (105+ words) The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has issued updated vaccine recommendations for pregnant women, continuing to recommend COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza, and Tdap vaccination during pregnancy. The guidance comes amid significant changes in federal vaccine policy…...
Why Was Spike Protein in These Placentas? Study Points to Vaccinated Women Without Reported Infection
1+ week, 2+ day ago (147+ words) A 2026 study published in PLOS One by Dr. Catharina Bartmann and colleagues at University Hospital W'rzburg examined whether SARS-Co V-2 spike protein, nucleocapsid protein, viral RNA, or vaccine-derived m RNA could be detected in placentas from women who experienced COVID-19 during…...
Common Pregnancy Medications and Autism Risk: Massive Study Signals Concern'but Falls Short of Causation
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (105+ words) A nationwide cohort study led by Eric S. Peeples, MD, Ph D, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and published in Molecular Psychiatry analyzed 6. 1 million U. S. pregnancies and found that prenatal exposure to sterol biosynthesis'inhibiting medications (SBIMs) was associated with a…...
No Safety Signal in Pregnancy? France's SNDS Study Tests m RNA Vaccine AESIs'and Finds Mostly Null Results
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (166+ words) Sylvie Escolano and colleagues from Universit" Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, Inserm, CESP, High-Dimensional Biostatistics for Drug Safety and Pharmacoepidemiology as well as the Faculty of Medicine, Midwifery, Health Sciences, ETHICS EA 7446 Lille Catholic University, both in France report in The Lancet Regional…...
CDC Pregnancy Registry Flags Higher HDP Reporting After COVID-19 Vaccination'But "Millions Harmed" Narratives Don't Follow
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (123+ words) A matched cohort study led by Andrea J. Sharma, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and colleagues, published in Vaccine (Impact Factor " 4. 1), assessed whether COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy or within 30 days of the last menstrual period is associated with hypertensive disorders…...
COVID-19 Vaccination During Pregnancy: What Observational Evidence Can'and Cannot'Tell Us About Safety
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (105+ words) A January 2024 synthesis of international observational studies examines COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy, drawing on registry-linked cohorts, case-control studies, and systematic reviews across Europe, Brazil, China, and the United States. The reviewed literature'spanning m RNA and inactivated vaccines'generally reports no strong…...
Tylenol in Pregnancy and Autism? A "Family-Controlled" Meta-analysis Finds No Signal
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (142+ words) Francesco D'Antonio, University of Chieti and Maria Elena Flacco, University of Ferrara, with senior author Prof Asma Khalil, City St George's, University of London / St George's clinical research context, published a systematic review and meta-analysis in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology,…...