Harm Published by Med Check: the Informed Prescriber, Japan Editor in Chief, Rokuro Hama, MD Chairperson of NPO Japan Institute of Pharmacovigilance; Deputy Editors, Deputy Editors, Y. Kimoto, MD and N Tanida, MD Plain Language summary: Two products of HPV vaccines (Cervarix and Gardasil) are marketed in Japan since 2010. More than 3 million girls were inoculated […]
Population-level impact and herd effects following human papillomavirus vaccination programmes:
a systematic review and meta-analysis Authors: Mélanie Drolet, PhD†, Élodie Bénard, BSc, Marie-Claude Boily, PhD, Hammad Ali, PhD, Louise Baandrup, MD, Heidi Bauer, MD, Simon Beddows, PhD, Jacques Brisson, DSc, Julia M L Brotherton, BMed, Teresa Cummings, BA, Basil Donovan, MD, Christopher K Fairley, PhD, Elaine W Flagg, PhD, Anne M Johnson, MD, Jessica A Kahn, MD, Kimberley Kavanagh, PhD, Susanne K Kjaer, MD, Erich V Kliewer, PhD, Philippe Lemieux-Mellouki, MSc, Lauri Markowitz, MD, Aminata Mboup, […]
Cervical screening rates for women vaccinated against human papillomavirus
Screening Rates Authors: Budd AC1, Brotherton JM2, Gertig DM2, Chau T3, Drennan KT2, Saville M2 Abstract OBJECTIVE: To compare cervical screening rates for women vaccinated with a quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine with those for unvaccinated women, to address concerns that vaccinated women may not be participating in cervical screening. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Cross-sectional […]
Detection of human papillomavirus L1 gene DNA fragments in postmortem blood and spleen after Gardasil® vaccination—A case report
L1 Gene Author(s) Sin Hang Lee, Milford Hospital and Milford Molecular Laboratory, Milford, Connecticut, USA. ABSTRACT A same-nested PCR was used to re-amplify the amplicon of a hypervariable region of the HPV-16 L1 gene DNA in the postmortem blood and splenic tissue obtained at autopsy of a formerly healthy teenage girl who suffered a sudden unexpected […]
Carmen de Bolivar: Neuropathic pain epidemic among Colombian girls
Neuropathic Pain Original Research By Pompilio Martinez N., M.D. Alumnus, School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Former researcher Colombian National Institute of Health, Bogotá, Colombia Abstract The presence of neuropathic pain was investigated in 19 adolescents from Carmen de Bolívar (Colombia) and 2 women from the rest of the country with a history of immunization with […]
