From major health policy wins to high-impact tools, webinars, and advocacy, see what the Independent Medical Alliance built in 2025—and what’s coming next in the year ahead.
2025 has been a wild ride for Honest Medicine. It started with something we never expected: a true ally in RFK Jr. running HHS. The journey isn’t over, but this year marked a real turning point. Policy reform became tangible, and IMA kept pushing forward with groundbreaking work. As the year ends, we wanted to pause and highlight a few of the wins we saw and helped bring about in the fight for Honest Medicine.
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What We Built in 2025: Cancer, PACVS, a Medical Journal, and Real Results
Most nonprofits do advocacy. Some provide education. A few create resources.
But very few can do what IMA does end-to-end.
We investigate emerging medical problems, publish research, translate complex findings into practical guidance, and then push for real-world change that protects patients and restores integrity in medicine.
If we’re being honest, we’ve had to pinch ourselves this year. What our physicians, researchers, writers, and small-but-mighty team accomplished in 2025 is the kind of end-to-end work most organizations never even attempt.
Below, we’re sharing a few highlights—from breakthrough vaccine injury research to the launch of our own peer-reviewed medical journal, to a major expansion of practical cancer resources, to advocacy that’s already driving real changes in policy and public awareness.
Here’s a quick tour of what your support has made possible this year:
- 🧬 COVID Vaccine Injury Research: Defining & Treating PACVS
- 📘 The Journal of Independent Medicine: The Future of Medicine
- 🎗️ Cancer Resources: Turning Research into Usable Solutions
- 🛡️ Advocacy that Gets Results: Smart Moms Ask
- 🧰 Tools & Guides: Practical Resources for Real Decisions
- 🎥 The IMA Weekly Webinar: Research Meets Clarity
- 🏛️ More Advocacy Wins: From Unthinkable to Reality
- 🤝 Restoring Trust: The Trusted Referral Network
If you believe this kind of independent, patient-centered research and guidance matters, please consider making a year-end gift today to keep it moving forward.
1. 🧬 COVID Vaccine Injury Research: Stepping up to Define & Treat PACVS
One of the most urgent medical challenges we face right now is post-vaccine injury and chronic illness. This is a field that is still emerging, still poorly understood, and still too often dismissed.
IMA is helping change that. We’ve spent years creating treatment guidance through I-RECOVER, and now we’re building on that clinical foundation with peer-reviewed research led by our president, Dr. Joseph Varon, and our director of research, Matthew Halma.
This year, our work helped define PACVS, a condition that still has no official recognition in the American healthcare system. Our research has been laying the groundwork for a growing understanding of how this illness can be identified and approached.
2. 📘 The Journal of Independent Medicine: Changing the Future of Medical Publishing
One of the biggest barriers to progress in medicine is the state of scientific publishing—where institutional politics, financial entanglements, and gatekeeping can slow or suppress independent, patient-focused research.
The Journal of Independent Medicine exists to help restore something essential: a home for rigorous, conflict-free research that prioritizes patients and real progress.
This is more than a publication. It’s infrastructure for scientific independence.
3. 🎗️ Cancer Resources: Turning Research into Usable Solutions
Many of us know that cancer is becoming more common, affecting younger people, and leaving patients searching for better options. Yet, the system increasingly narrows treatment to the same limited tools.
IMA has worked to expand what patients and providers can access, starting with foundational research and building toward practical guidance. It began with Cancer Care and expanded rapidly this year—especially through Dr. Paul Marik’s work (with Dr. Justus Hope) on repurposed drug strategies, alongside new patient-ready nutrition and support tools like the Cancer Nutrition Guide.
Now, that growing library is organized in one place: the Cancer Resource Hub.
4. 🛡️ Advocacy that Gets Results: Smart Moms Ask
Advocacy works best when the people leading it have the credibility and courage to challenge the system in public.
This year, IMA pushed hard to end the EUA for the COVID injections, discourage their use, and drive their removal from the market entirely. We’ve already seen major progress: the EUA has been removed, ACIP has made decisions that force transparency, and HHS has moved to stop recommending mRNA shots for kids and pregnant women.
We built Smart Moms Ask to turn that momentum into something parents can use: a resource center that translates complex vaccine safety issues into clear, practical guidance. And with ACIP now being led by our own Dr. Kirk Milhoan alongside our key advisor, Dr. Robert Malone, we believe real reform is finally within reach.
These resources are free to download—but not free to create. Please support our mission to share evidence-backed medical solutions with the world by donating today.
5. 🧰 Tools & Guides: Practical Resources for Real Decisions
One of the most direct ways we serve both patients and clinicians is through our Tools & Guides library. These are built to translate complex medical topics into clear, actionable guidance you can actually use—whether you’re treating patients, making personal health decisions, or supporting a family member.
Each of these guides was written by Dr. Kristina Carman, with support from our editorial team and collaboration from other IMA founders and fellows. We’re proud to build and maintain this growing library of resources for you.
Explore focused collections created in 2025:
- Cancer (treatment strategies, nutrition, metabolic approaches, and more)
- Men’s Health (hormones, performance, longevity, and practical interventions)
- GERD (root-cause approaches, dietary strategies, and symptom relief)
Check out some of our most popular guides of 2025:
- Red Light Therapy (how it works, benefits, and best practices)
- Electrolytes (why they matter, how to choose, and how to use them)
- Nutrient Synergy (how nutrients work together, and why “more” isn’t always better)
- Food Additives (what to watch for, why it matters, and practical next steps)
6. 🎥 The IMA Weekly Webinar: Research Meets Clarity
Except for a few rare days around the holidays, the IMA Weekly Webinar crew is hard at work every week.
We bring together physicians and subject-matter experts to break down the medical issues that matter most. The IMA webinar brings depth, evidence, and practical insight for both patients and clinicians. Most shows react. We build.
Whether you’ve been watching all year or you’re just catching up, our webinar library is one of the most practical ways to stay informed and connected to the most important trends in health care and wellness today.
7. 🏛️ More Advocacy Wins: From Unthinkable to Reality
In 2025, several major reforms we’ve advocated for moved from “unthinkable” to reality: leadership changes across HHS, the end of federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates, major shifts in pediatric mRNA policy, and new requirements for placebo-controlled vaccine trials—and that’s only part of what changed this year.
To help turn that momentum into durable change, we built several advocacy initiatives designed to make it stick:
- The Four Pillars
Our 2025 policy priorities, outlining the core reforms needed to restore integrity in medicine and re-center healthcare around patients and sound science. - The Parents’ Healthcare Bill of Rights
A clear statement of parental rights focused on informed consent, transparency, and meaningful involvement in decisions affecting children’s health.
8. 🤝 Restoring Trust: The Trusted Referral Network
The Restoring Trust campaign is one of the most important initiatives we’re building right now and into 2026.
Behind the scenes, our developers are building the technical scaffolding, and our team is actively screening physicians and laying the groundwork for a referral system designed to last.
Where our original directory was built as a response to the COVID crisis, the Trusted Referral Network will offer an enhanced experience and a truly vetted list of healthcare professionals patients can trust—so patients can find care that’s competent, independent, and aligned with Honest Medicine.
If you believe in building a free, patient-first resource that helps people connect with the best doctors, we’d be grateful for your support.
What you’ve seen above is a snapshot of what IMA does best: we take emerging medical problems from research → to publishable evidence → to practical guidance → to real-world results.
That kind of end-to-end work takes a rare combination of expert leadership, scientific rigor, and a dedicated team behind the scenes. And it’s only possible because donors choose to fund it.
This work wouldn’t exist without the support of our donors. Thank you for helping make Honest Medicine possible. Happy New Year, and we’ll see you in 2026!
