By: Bob Fiddaman 02 November 2010 As a writer I am sent many links to news stories, some I have already covered, others have been covered many times by far greater writer’s than I. Imagine my surprise then when I, along with a few other writer’s, activists, campaigners, was sent a promotional DVD for GlaxoSmithKline’s […]
Health bosses move to boost cancer jabs
By: Jessica Daly 28 October 2010 Health officials are rethinking how to promote jabs against cervical cancer after the slow take up of a national vaccination programme among young women. Switzerland rolled out a programme in 2008 to vaccinate girls and young women aged 11 to 19 against the human papilloma virus, or […]
GlaxoSmithKline Drops the Price of Cervarix
Source: PharmaLive 25 October 2010 Today, GlaxoSmithKline Inc. (Canada), announced its plan to reduce the cost of CERVARIX™ by 30%. The cost reduction is in response to recent research that demonstrates the relatively high price of cervical cancer vaccines, coupled with a low understanding of their protective benefits topped the list of reasons why the […]
Malaysian Government Set to Vaccinate Girls with Gardasil
By: Wendi Lewis 07 September 2010 SM Mohammed Idris, president of the Consumers Association of Penang, recently wrote an opinion piece for the Malaysia Kini website, asking that the government reconsider its decision to vaccinate all 13-year-old girls in the country with Gardasil or Cervarix. According to the column, the country’s Ministry of Health (MOH) […]
NCI on Cervical Cancer Prevention and HPV vaccines: What’s a Woman to do?
By: Norma Erickson 31 August 2010 The following is a direct quote from a recently revised copy of “Cervical Cancer Prevention, Health Professional Version,” published by the National Cancer Institute (NCI): “The finding of HPV viral DNA integrated in most cellular genomes of cervical carcinomas supports epidemiologic data linking this agent to cervical cancer however, […]
