By Tracy Staton Merck’s ($MRK) Gardasil journey is becoming a saga, with twists and turns all over the place. When first approved, the vaccine against human papillomavirus was tagged as a no-brainer blockbuster. But uptake of the vaccine hit a snag; after about a third of eligible girls were vaccinated, sales growth stalled. The company’s […]
Gardasil Warning
By Jenny Thompson, Health Sciences International This is a warning for all parents and grandparents: Drug giant Merck wants to inject every one of your young girls and boys with Gardasil, the controversial HPV vaccine. It’s controversial, of course, because it’s been shown to prevent a few types of human papillomavirus, but it certainly is […]
Merck’s Marketing Department Declares HPV is a Disease! SaneVax Inc. Declares Gardasil a Disease
By Leslie Carol Botha, Vice President Public Relations July 16, 2011 – Merck’s well-honed marketing professionals have done it again – they have captured the attention of parents and girl’s around the country with their marketing campaign labeling HPV a disease. Ads have appeared throughout the summer in the national newspapers like Sunday’s Parade Magazine, […]
Merck receives approval to market Gardasil, Zolinza, and Cubicin in Japan
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J., July 1, 2011 – Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) approved three products – GARDASIL® [Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent (Types 6, 11, 16 and 18) Vaccine, Recombinant], ZOLINZA® vorinostat) and CUBICIN® (daptomycin for injection) – […]
Spinning the Spin Part II: Fewer girls develop cervical abnormalities after HPV vaccine
The Marketing of Scientific Research & Studies By Leslie Carol Botha, Vice President of Public Relations, SaneVax Inc. My father, once a pharmaceutical packaging salesman and now an Alzheimer’s nursing home patient whose mental clarity declined rapidly post- flu vaccination – once told me ‘never believe in everything that is advertised.’ Truer advice was never […]
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