The First International HPV Vaccine Information Clearinghouse
Time Magazine
Healthland
By Meredith Melnick Friday, January 7, 2011
Sexual health specialists have long focused on circumcision as a potential safeguard against acquiring HIV. In fact, a 2006 clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that medical circumcision reduced female-to-male transmission rates by 48% to 60% in two trials in Rakai, Uganda and Kisumu, Kenya.
MHRA
January 2011
United Kingdom
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) was set up in April 2003 from a merger of the Medicines Control Agency and the Medical Devices Agency. The MHRA is the government agency which is responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work, and are acceptably safe. The MHRA is an executive agency of the Department of Health.
What are Black Triangle drugs (▼)?
When medicines come onto the market, we have relatively limited information about their safety from clinical trials in the UK. These trials generally involve only small numbers of eligible patients who take the medicine for a relatively short period of time. Therefore, patients in clinical trials may not be fully representative of those who will use the medicine when it is marketed.
VIHC Vaccine Injury Help Center
Posted on January 4, 2011 by RachelB
By, now if have read any news related to the Gardasil vaccine, you should be beginning to understand the true dangers associated with the vaccine and its sugar-coated advertising by Merck. Because the realities of the shot have been so difficult to uncover by many, it has been difficult for many concerned parents to find the answers they are looking for. Dr. Diane Harper, a lead researcher in the development of both the Gardasil and Cervarix vaccines presented some pretty up-front and honest facts about the shot in October at the International Conference on Vaccination–shocking the medical world and leaving many believing that these vaccines are not as safe as they thought.
B4UIndia.com
January 3, 2011
New research has suggested that mothers can play a key role in convincing college-aged women to receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, intended to prevent the most common sexually transmitted infection.
global vaccine ethics and policy
Pediatrics
January 2011 / VOLUME 127 / ISSUE 1
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/current.shtml
Adherence to the HPV Vaccine Dosing Intervals and Factors Associated With Completion of 3 Doses
Lea E. Widdice, David I. Bernstein, Anthony C. Leonard, Keith A. Marsolo, and Jessica A. Kahn
Pediatrics 2011; 127: 77-84.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to determine (1) adherence to the immunization schedule for the human papillomavirus quadrivalent vaccine and (2) factors associated with completion of the 3-dose series.
