By Adam Helfer Washington D.C., March 27, 2011 – Pharmaceuticals are a $650 plus billion dollar a year industry. For years the most profitable business in the U.S. has been the pharmaceutical corporations, which routinely top the annual fortune 500 list. Doctor prescribed drugs support an industry which out-earns the GNP of many nations. A core […]
SANE Vax, Inc. Declares Major Victory in Gardasil Awareness Campaign – Merck Loses 4th Bid to Expand Gardasil® to Older Women
By Leslie Carol Botha In a long awaited decision1 the US FDA has ruled against Merck’s supplemental biologics license application (sBLA) for an indication to use GARDASIL [Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent (Types 6, 11, 16 and 18) Vaccine, Recombinant] in women ages 27-45. This was Merck’s 4th request to expand Gardasil use to an older population […]
U.S. Prescribing Information for GARDASIL® Updated; Indication Not Granted for Use in Adult Women
Merck News Room April 6, 2011 WHITEHOUSE STATION, NJ – April 6, 2011 – Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has completed its review of Merck’s supplemental biologics license application (sBLA) for an indication to use GARDASIL [Human Papillomavirus […]
Behind the Scenes: The Evolution of an HPV Industry
By Norma Erickson, President of SaneVax Inc. April 5, 2011 The first papillomavirus was discovered in the 1930’s by Dr. Richard E. Shope. It was the cottontail rabbit papillomavirus, or the Shope papillomavirus, which occurred in warts that frequently developed into cancerous tumors1. Dr. Shope was able to isolate the virus, inject it into […]
Behind the Scenes: The Evolution of an HPV Industry
By Norma Erickson, President of SaneVax Inc. The first papillomavirus was discovered in the 1930’s by Dr. Richard E. Shope. It was the cottontail rabbit papillomavirus, or the Shope papillomavirus, which occurred in warts that frequently developed into cancerous tumors1. Dr. Shope was able to isolate the virus, inject it into other rabbits and produce […]
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