Teenage Natalie Morton Death Caused By Tumor, Not HPV Shot

Natalie Morton recently died after receiving a shot for cervical cancer at her school in Coventry. Morton's death caused a scare regarding the HPV shot that all the girls in Natalie's school were receiving on Monday as part of a National Health Service immunization program. ...

Serious Concerns Continue to Grow Over Use of HPV Drug GARDASIL

Since it's approval in the summer of 2006 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 5 million girls and women, ages 9 to 26, have been vaccinated with GARDASIL. GARDASIL, aggressively marketed by Merck &...

The New England Journal of Medicine Questions Distributing HPV Vaccines

This article states that the New England Journal of Medicine has posted articles questioning the distribution of GARDASIL, manufactured by Merck & Co. Inc and Cervarix, manufactured by...

UPDATE: What's the Latest News on GARDASIL?

Update:   Effective July 1, 2008, in a press release dated July 24, 2008, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, adding human papillomavirus to the required list of vaccinations required when...

The Politics and PR of Cervical Cancer

The Center for Media and Democracy has completed a four part series of articles, The Politics and PR of Cervical Cancer, about the first FDA approved human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine GARDASIL,...

Creating A Market For And Testing HPV Vaccines

A quote from the American Cancer Society web site states: Seventy percent (70%) of human papilloma virus (HPV) infections are typically gone within one year and 90% are gone within 2 years. When I read this fact...

Public Health? Profit? What Drives The HPV Vaccination Campaign?

In November 2006, Merck & Co. Inc. began its high pressure saturation 'One Less' campaign for its genetically engineered drug, GARDASIL, being hailed as a tool to prevent cervical cancer caused by two of...

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