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 […]
Self-Organized Criticality Theory of Autoimmuity
Ken Tsumiyama1, Yumi Miyazaki1, Shunichi Shiozawa1,2,3,4* 1 Department of Biophysics, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Science, Kobe, Japan, 2 Department of Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan, 3 The Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan, 4 Global Center of Excellence (GCOE), Tokyo, Japan Abstract Background The cause of autoimmunity, which is unknown, is investigated from a different […]
Too Fast or Not Too Fast: The FDA’s Approval of Merck’s HPV Vaccine Gardasil
Tomljenovic L, Shaw CA. Early career postdoctoral fellow in the Neural Dynamics Research Group at the University of British Columbia. Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of British Columbia and holds cross appointments with the Program in Experimental Medicine and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Abstract There are not many […]
Public Awareness and Cervical Cancer Screening
By P. Davies Article first published online: 16 MAY 2012 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2303.2012.00984.x © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Population-based, organized screening programmes can reduce cervical cancer rates by 80%,1 although this will only be achieved with high coverage of the target population.2–4 The introduction of vaccines protecting against oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 has provided a […]
Mass psychogenic illness after vaccination
PubMed.gov Drug Saf. 2003;26(9):599-604. Clements CJ. Source Department of Vaccines and Immunisation, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. ClementsCJ@telstra.com Abstract When vaccines are administered to groups, the physical reactions of the recipients may be similar, causing a form of mass reaction, the mechanism for which is the same as that for mass reactions from […]