For the Win: HHR May 18, 2025
IMA's 'Smart Moms Ask' campaign spearheads takedown of COVID mRNA vaccine recommendations for kids and pregnant women.
IMA’s ‘Smart Moms’ Campaign Scores Victory: HHS to Halt mRNA Vaccines for Kids, Pregnant Women
After thousands of mothers rallied behind the Independent Medical Alliance’s (IMA) “Smart Moms” campaign, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and CDC are reportedly set to end mRNA vaccine recommendations for children and pregnant women, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Kirk Milhoan Talks mRNA Shots for Kids
IMA Senior Fellow Dr. Kirk Milhoan joined One America News and highlighted how IMA’s Smart Moms Ask campaign is advocating for removal of mRNA shots from the CDC’s childhood recommended vaccination schedule.
This week’s IMA webinar brought together four of our senior fellows—Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Kat Lindley, Dr. Liz Mumper, and Dr. Kim Biss—for a high-impact discussion on vaccine safety, regulatory capture, and a powerful new campaign.
Focal Points Spotlights Journal of Independent Medicine Article Debunking COVID Vaccine Study
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IMA Applauds Move to End Unfair Drug Pricing
“The Independent Medical Alliance expressed strong support for President Trump’s executive order instituting a “most-favored-nation” system for U.S. drug pricing for Medicare Part B and potentially other government benefit plans.
Texas Honors IMA Senior Fellow Dr. Mary Talley Bowden
The Independent Medical Alliance is proud to congratulate Dr. Mary Talley Bowden on being recognized for her frontline medical service in the Lone Star state.
‘Follow the Silenced’ World Premiere
The new documentary from filmmaker Mikki Willis (Ivermectin: The Truth, Plandemic), and React19 Co-founder Brianne Dressen chronicles the profound struggles of the COVID vaccine-injured.
Follow the Silenced is a powerful film that follows the untold stories of those that were first in line and injured, abandoned by the system, and the extraordinary way they rose together, forming REACT19 to uncover the truth, push for research, and reclaim their health and voices.
Can Sleep Really Influence Cancer?
Far from being a passive state, sleep is now recognized as an active defense system, one that may play a surprisingly critical role in reducing the risk of cancer and even improving outcomes after diagnosis.
Alen Juginović, ‘a medical doctor and postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School studying the effect of poor sleep quality on health,’ examines the role sleep plays in preventing and recovering from cancer in How Sleep Shapes Cancer Risk and Treatment Outcomes.
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Childhood Infections and Long-Term Health
In Episode 13 of Kid’s Corner, pediatrician and IMA Senior Fellow Dr. Liz Mumper explores the surprising potential health benefits associated with certain childhood illnesses, and discusses how acute infections—especially those accompanied by mild to moderate fever, such as measles—may play a protective role in adult health.
The Godfather of Gain-of-Function?
In Is This the Man Who Created Covid-19 in Fauci’s US Lab?, Will Jones of the Brownstone Institute writes:
Top US virologist Ralph Baric engineered the Covid-19 virus SARS-CoV-2 in his lab at the University of North Carolina as part of his work in connection with the 2018 DEFUSE funding proposal. That’s the story that’s been going round the internet for some months now (and not just in alternative media) and it all looks very damning for Baric and those connected with his research.
From the Reverse Engineering the Origins of SARS-CoV-2 Substack:
Andreas Lisewski is a computational biologist at Constructor University in northern Germany. In 2024, he published a BMC paper that found a 2017 “precise molecular blueprint for SARS-CoV-2.” Ralph Baric of UNC referenced that 2017 research in his 2019 furin cleavage site paper.
For those of you in the IMA, MAHA and medical freedom movements I am going to post the germ of an idea here that I hope some of you may culture and grow into a full-fledged expression or discussion at some of your high-level presentations to those who matter.
Here is the idea expressed in a series of questions:
1. Is excess stress healthy? Presumably not and hopefully anyone with any interest in general health would agree with that.
2. Is stress over money one of the most prevalent and damaging stresses not only to the individual but to relationships (spousal, parental and occupational)? Again, I think this has to be acknowledged.
3. As healthcare costs - especially, but not only, the cost of insurance - continues unabated doesn't this mean that healthcare itself is contributing in no small way to making the general public sicker and sicker?
Again, I hope the point is obvious but let me sharpen it. If healthcare as an industry is interested in actually making people healthier then it has to bring down costs across the board dramatically. Forcing people to choose between feeding themselves and their families, providing other basic needs such as transportation, clothing and shelter, and saving for retirement are all a part of a comprehensive, holistic healthcare approach. Making people sicker by making them poorer (or making people poorer by making them sicker via the cost burden) is a counter-productive to everything that is health related.