A Popular Doctor Had Long Warned That Vitamin K Shots Are Risky for Newborns. Now He’s Changed His Tune.

A Popular Doctor Had Long Warned That Vitamin K Shots Are Risky for Newborns. Now He’s Changed His Tune. After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote. https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-shot-joseph-mercola-reversal-babies?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=secondary by Duaa Eldeib