PP26 Efficacy of HPV vaccines: a review of the evidence used by the WHO S Scharer1,2, AM Pollock1, P Sevcikova1 + Author Affiliations 1Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK 2Institute of General Practice, Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria Abstract Background In 2009 the World Health […]
HPV vaccination not cost effective
HPV vaccination programs have been shown to be not cost effective in countries with comprehensive Pap screening and surgery Abstract By Judy Wilyman Pap screening combined with loop electrosurgical excision procedures (LEEP) is almost 100% effective in preventing cervical cancer mortality yet many countries with these procedures have now implemented broad HPV vaccination programs. HPV […]
Influenza: marketing vaccine by marketing disease
Influenza Influenza… by Peter Doshi, Postdoctoral Fellow: BMJ 2013;346:f3037 The CDC pledges “To base all public health decisions on the highest quality scientific data, openly and objectively derived.” But Peter Doshi argues that in the case of influenza vaccinations and their marketing, this is not so. Promotion of flu vaccines is one of the most visible and aggressive public […]
Neurologic adverse events following vaccination
Prog Health Sci 2012, Vol 2 , No1 Neurologic adverse events vaccination Sienkiewicz D.*, Kułak W., Okurowska-Zawada B., Paszko-Patej G. Department of Pediatric Rehabilitation of the Medical University of Bialystok, Poland Abstract The present review summarizes data on neurological adverse events following vaccination in the relation to intensity, time of onset, taking into account the […]
HPV vaccines and cancer prevention, science versus activism
Lucija Tomljenovic, Judy Wilyman, Eva Vanamee, Toni Bark and Christopher A Shaw Infectious Agents and Cancer 2013, 8:6 doi:10.1186/1750-9378-8-6 Published: 1 February 2013 Abstract (provisional) The rationale behind current worldwide human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination programs starts from two basic premises, 1) that HPV vaccines will prevent cervical cancers and save lives and, 2) have no risk of serious side effects. Therefore, efforts […]
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