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...

Manchester Catholic School Bans Cancer Vaccination

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...

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,...

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...

The Silent Global Killer: Human Papillomavirus

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...

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