New data from an African trial is showing reduced contraction rates for both HPV and herpes. This same study showed the reduction of HIV transmission by 50%. Currently, the American Academy of Pediatrics does not endorse neonatal circumcision. As a result of this new...
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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...
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...
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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 &...
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Some reports seem to indicated that British citizens were involeved in the Mumbai attacks. However, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said it was to early to say Britons were involved. "But Indian Chief Minister...
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...
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A Catholic school in Manchester, UK has banned their 12 and 13 year old female students from receiving immunization against cervical cancer at the high school, even though the NHS vaccination program has been approved by Britain's Catholic Education Service. The vaccine...
created by Terri Potratz | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 148 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
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 | 1 year ago | updated 13 wks ago 5053 views | 77 recommendations | 39 comments
I've been imagining what this guy's life has been like. I'm not sure if there are words to describe how hard his life has been. He got a cut on his knee as a teenager, and as a result he eventually lost his job, his wife, his ability to take care of himself, was ridiculed and...
created by James Pate | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 5389 views | 0 recommendations | 3 comments
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 | 2 years ago | updated 1 year ago 4176 views | 25 recommendations | 7 comments
Much controversy has surround HPV during the last year - especially with Merck pushing its vaccine onto young teenage girls. NowPublic's very own babblingdweeb provides an excellent review of the virus and...
created by ScienceDave | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 829 views | 15 recommendations | 6 comments
Whatever happened to the journalist's obligation to inform the public? I listened to this interview conducted by NPR's Linda Wertheimer with Dr. Jeanne Santoli of the CDC and came away stunned at how they could omit the two most obvious and important points of the whole...
created by ChristophrHiestr | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1512 views | 10 recommendations | 9 comments
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 | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 5301 views | 23 recommendations | 12 comments
The STD Human Papillomavirus has a funny name, but most people know it as: HPV. I have four people close to me that know they have HPV -they are far from "the town tart" that you might want to label them as. In...
created by babblingdweeb | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 2349 views | 10 recommendations | 6 comments