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Parents Who Smoke More Positive Re: HPV Vaccine
Researcher Carolyn Y. Fang, associate professor in the Cancer Preventionand Control Progam at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia has released information in the February copy of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers... Gardasil Side Effects: Should Women Get It?
There has been heated controversy about Gardasil, which is a Merck & Co.'s revolutionary vaccine designed to prevent certain infections with human papillomavirus (HPV), mainly cervical cancer and genital...
created by candice.tsuei | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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7585 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
Merck and Schering-Plough in $41 Billion Merger
Pharmaceutical giant Merck, known for its Gardasil product, is acquiring Schering-Plough in a $41 billion dollar merger. The overall goal is to compete more closely with Pfizer, which is the largetst pharma...
created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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547 views | 13 recommendations | 7 comments
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 &...
created by Karen Hatter | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
1212 views | 45 recommendations | 11 comments
1212 views | 45 recommendations | 11 comments
Merck approves use of its HPV vaccine Gardasil in males
Human papillomavirus, or HPV, is an oncogenic virus implicated in causing nearly 100% of all cervical cancer cases, but it does not just target females. It also infects males, and can cause anal, penile, neck...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
1574 views | 10 recommendations | 4 comments
1574 views | 10 recommendations | 4 comments
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...
created by Karen Hatter | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
911 views | 61 recommendations | 14 comments
911 views | 61 recommendations | 14 comments
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...
created by Karen Hatter | 3 years ago | updated 2 years ago
5962 views | 72 recommendations | 37 comments
5962 views | 72 recommendations | 37 comments
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,...
created by Karen Hatter | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
4262 views | 25 recommendations | 7 comments
4262 views | 25 recommendations | 7 comments
MD journal raises doubt over cervical cancer vaccine
"MD journal raises doubt over cervical cancer vaccine Joanne Laucius, CanWest News Service Published: Thursday, August 02, 2007 OTTAWA -- It's too early for Canada to immunize all girls and women against a virus that causes cervical cancer, says a bombshell article published... Ten Facts about HPV and GARDASIL
The invitation to vaccination campaign, initiated by Merck, promoting their product, GARDASIL, the first vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use...
created by Karen Hatter | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
7031 views | 25 recommendations | 12 comments
7031 views | 25 recommendations | 12 comments
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...
created by Karen Hatter | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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1611 views | 20 recommendations | 4 comments
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...
created by Karen Hatter | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
3734 views | 25 recommendations | 8 comments
3734 views | 25 recommendations | 8 comments
New vaccine courting much controversy
"Physician Lisa Thorn would like to see a vaccine that protects her patients from cervical cancer become a state mandate."Whatever happened to individual rights?Girls 'should get cancer jab at 11'
Vaccination against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer should be compulsory for European schoolgirls aged 11 and 12, a leading medical journal has said.FDA approves cervical cancer vaccine
"The first vaccine against cervical cancer will be available to girls as young as 9 later this month. Its manufacturer, Merck & Co. Inc., is already taking orders for Gardasil. The three-shot series costs $360. ADVERTISEMENT The newly approved vaccine works by preventing...NowPublic on Facebook
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