NVIC.org – The Story Behind MedAlerts #Vaccines #Adverse Reactions To Vaccines #Parental Consent

MedAlerts is the unique database search engine created and launched online in 2003 by computer science expert Steven Rubin, PhD.,¹ to allow people to search and review reports of vaccine-related complications made to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS).  Dr. Rubin developed MedAlerts to provide people with a user-friendly way to search vaccine reactions reported to the U.S. government by doctors, nurses and other vaccine providers, as well as the public.

VAERS was included as part of the vaccine safety informing, recording and reporting provisions that NVIC co-founders secured in the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act as an integrated post-marketing surveillance system to monitor potential safety problems with vaccines.² VAERS is jointly operated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC).³

With 60,000 hits daily, Dr. Rubin estimates MedAlerts attracts some 3,000 unique visitors to the website per day. Following is an historical look-back at why and how Dr. Rubin created the invaluable online VAERS database search engine, MedAlerts, that can be accessed through NVIC.org.