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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...

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...

Is Gardasil a Scam?

Reported today in the UK news: "More than 1,300 schoolgirls have experienced adverse reactions to the controversial cervical cancer jab. Doctors have reported that girls aged just 12 and 13 have suffered...

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...

Gardasil Complications May be Killing 16-year Old Gabi Swank

Gabi Swank, a 16-year old Kansas teen claims that complications from having received the Gardasil human pappilomavirus (HPV) vaccine are killing her, and her doctor agrees.  Diagnosed with the terminal disease...

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 &...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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