The Institute of Medicine (IOM) (now known as the The Health and Medicine Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) is an independent, nonprofit organization that works outside of government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers and the public.
“With the start of the new school year, it’s time to ensure that children are up to date on their immunizations, making this report’s findings about the safety of these eight vaccines particularly timely,” said committee chair Ellen Wright Clayton, professor of pediatrics and law, and director, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. “The findings should be reassuring to parents that few health problems are clearly connected to immunizations, and these effects occur relatively rarely. And repeated study has made clear that some health problems are not caused by vaccines.”
They occasionally issue reports and safety reviews about vaccines:
- Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence, and Future Studies -2013
- Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality – 2011
- Immunization Safety Review: Vaccines and Autism – 2004
- Immunization Safety Review: Vaccinations and Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy – 2003
- Immunization Safety Review: Influenza Vaccines and Neurological Complications – 2003
- Immunization Safety Review: Multiple Immunizations and Immune Dysfunction – 2002
- Immunization Safety Review: SV40 Contamination of Polio Vaccine and Cancer – 2002
- Immunization Safety Review: Hepatitis B Vaccine and Demyelinating Neurological Disorders – 2002
- Immunization Safety Review: Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine and Autism – 2001
- Thimerosal – Containing Vaccines and Neurodevelopmental Disorders – 2001
- Adverse Events Associated with CHILDHOOD VACCINES
Evidence Bearing on Causality – 1994 - Research Strategies for Assessing Adverse Events Associated with Vaccines: A Workshop Summary – 1994
- Adverse Effects of Pertussis and Rubella Vaccines – 1991
Reading these reports will help you to understand why vaccine experts argue that vaccines do not cause autism, SIDS, or multiple sclerosis, etc.