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July 02, 2025

Baby Veya Continues to Fight For Life

🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada Baby Veya, daughter of Jeremy and Krystal VanderBrugghen, has been battling for her life due to

medical challenges that have kept her hospitalized since birth. This painful journey has taught Krystal, Jeremy and the rest of the family the importance of advocating for patients while navigating the many difficulties of the healthcare system. Krystal shared the details of their experience at SickKids Hospital in Toronto with CHD.TV’s Polly Tommey.

 

You can follow Baby Veya’s story HERE on Instagram.  You can also support Krystal, Jeremy and Veya via GoFundMe HERE.

 

Other segment summaries for this episode below.

  • Under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership at the HHS, a new panel of experts were appointed as CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) members. This decision resulted in mixed reactions from the media, medical professionals, parents and politicians. And what occurred at the first two days of their deliberations on vaccine recommendations sets a new precedent for the future of the pharmaceutical establishment. Here, to discuss the meetings, are Kim Mack Rosenberg and Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D.

  • Why does the health of the gut matter when it comes to preconception, pregnancy and birth? Often overlooked, this organ system is an absolute critical component of the reproductive health of a couple and the development of their children. In this “Mothers2B” segment, Isabella Yon interviews Jon Tommey on the value and operation of the digestive system for families — both present and future.

  • Dr. Elizabeth Rogers was 18, a freshman in college, when she started her HPV Gardasil series. What happened next? As Dr. Rogers recalls, she went through a “vicious cycl1e” of illness that left her “bedridden” on antibiotics for years. As a 23-year-old female, she had “massive kidney stones.” The procedure Dr. Rogers underwent almost killed her. That experience paved the way for her to reflect back on that university-mandated immunization and began her journey of learning about vaccination. Listen to Dr. Roger’s narrative, and others like it, on CHD.TV.

 

 

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