By: Susan Heavey, Reuters WASHINGTON, 27 August 2010 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on use of certain clinical trials that show a new drug is no worse than another already on the market, according to a government report released on Friday. Such trials, known as non-inferiority trials, are used when […]
SaneVax urges FDA and NCI to establish a reliable HPV genotyping test for virology-based cervical cancer prevention in patient care
By: Norma Erickson 06 November 2010 Last Tuesday, the SaneVax team sent a letter to Dr. Margaret Hamburg, FDA Commissioner, and Dr. Harold E. Varmus, Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), requesting the establishment of a reliable human papillomavirus (HPV) genotyping test to support the national virology-based cervical cancer prevention program for patient care. […]
FDA: Gardasil approved to prevent anal cancer
FDA Press Release 22 December 2010 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the vaccine Gardasil for the prevention of anal cancer and associated precancerous lesions due to human papillomavirus (HPV) types 6, 11, 16, and 18 in people ages 9 through 26 years. Gardasil is already approved for the same age […]
Gardasil, the FDA, and VAERS: How Americans concerned about vaccines interact with government
By: Marci Greenstein 14 December 2010 Emily Tarsell thought she had enough information about Gardasil — a new vaccine marketed to girls to prevent certain types of cervical cancer — when she agreed to have her daughter receive the vaccine. But after her third and last injection of Gardasil, in 2008, Christina Tarsell, […]
Hidden Dangers of HPV Vaccines
By: Sandra Perlingieri 01 December 2010 “The fantasy that there are shortcuts that come in syringes or bottles remains, for now just that: a fantasy.” –Peter B. Bach, MD(1) On June 8, 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new cervical cancer vaccine, called Gardasil, manufactured by Merck [the company […]
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