By: Mahim Pretap Singh, published in ‘The Hindu’ 14 October 2010 Activists concerned over commercial ICMR investigations on side effects and ethical issues are still on. BHOPAL: The controversial anti-cervical cancer vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix, trials of which were suspended by the Indian government earlier this year, are slowly expanding their presence in Madhya Pradesh […]
India poised to approve: Gardasil for Males to Fight Human Papillomavirus
Posted by: D V R Poosha, PhD in Abhisarika 12 September 2010 Gardasil vaccine, which is currently given to girls and young women to help prevent infection by four types of human papillomavirus, may be approved for boys as well, soon. An advisory committee from the Food and Drug Administration voted to recommend that the […]
Merck & Co., Inc. Under Investigation Over Potential Foreign Bribery
By: ShareHolders Foundation, Inc. 18 August 2010 Merck & Co., Inc., located in Whitehouse Station, NJ, is a global health care company that delivers health solutions through its medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, and consumer and animal products, which it markets directly and through its joint ventures. According to the investigation by a law firm the […]
FDA Posts Gardasil Briefing Documents
Published on Friday, October 29, 2010 FDA said in briefing documents posted ahead of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting on Nov. 17 that data support approval of Gardasil HPV vaccine from Merck & Co. Inc. (NYSE:MRK) to prevent anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN) and anal cancer caused by HPV types 6, […]
Teenage Girls & Boys at Risk from Gardasil: The New Killer Vaccine
By: Maria Muir 28 August 2010 Previously reported on this blog regarding Gardasil: The HPV vaccine fraud as Gardasil reaches Irish schools Merck & Co., Inc., manufacturer of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil are still pushing the vaccine on teenage girls and more recently and shockingly, aiming at teenage boys. Apparently it is being […]