New York Times By ANDREW POLLACK Published: October 29, 2010 Reversing a longstanding policy, the federal government said on Friday that human and other genes should not be eligible for patents because they are part of nature. The new position could have a huge impact on medicine and on the biotechnology industry. The new position […]
Archives for November 2010
GlaxoSmithKline Brainwashed Doctors About HPV Vaccine
Vaccine Truth By Christina England | November 2nd, 2010 | In June 2008 a promotional DVD was sent to every General Practitioner (G.P.) in the UK just hours before the launch of the Cervarix vaccine in the UK. The DVD was posted with the G.P. magazine and was a clever marketing strategy aimed at busy […]
Girls Bribed To Take Dangerous and Pointless HPV Vaccine
WideShut.co.uk Nov 3rd, 2010 | By Keelan Balderson It’s not enough to have a full blown media campaign, the complicity of schools or to plaster the cancerous death of celeb Jade Goody on every newspaper; girls in Britain are now being bribed with £45 worth of high street shopping vouchers in exchange for rolling up […]
HPV Vaccination’s Second Act: Promotion, Competition, and Compulsion
American Journal of Public Health October 2010, Vol 100, No. 10 | American Journal of Public Health 1841-1844 © 2010 American Public Health Association DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2010.193060 Jason L. Schwartz, MBE, AM Jason L. Schwartz is with the Center for Bioethics and Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Correspondence: Correspondence should […]
Should young men who have sex with men be targeted for HPV vaccinations?
Health Facts and Fears November 3, 2010 Vaccinating men who have sex with men (MSM) against the human papillomavirus is a cost-effective method for preventing anal cancer and gential warts, a new analysis published in Lancet Infectious Diseases has found. Last year the FDA approved the use of Merck’s HPV vaccine Gardasil to prevent genital warts for boys […]