By: Norma Erickson The peaceful Irish countryside has been disturbed by what many Irish mothers consider an assault on their children – the introduction of Gardasil. When it comes to the health and safety of their children, Irish mothers set aside all political differences. That is just what is happening all across the country […]
Gardasil is About Money, Not Saving Lives
By: Dr. Charles Barta, Green Valley News and Sun Gardasil. The first vaccine that prevents cancer. A miracle on the level of the polio vaccine (at least according to Texas Gov. Rick Perry). No more young women dropping dead in the streets form cervical cancer. Am I exaggerating? I personally saw how Gardasil was presented […]
Prophylactic HPV Vaccines: Current Knowledge of Impact on Gynecological Premalignancies
Authors: Diane M. Harper/Karen B. Williams Published 3 July 2010, Discovery Medicine Abstract: Approaches for cervical cancer prevention are changing. Screening still remains the most effective method for cervical cancer prevention. Guidelines are moving to an older group of women to be screened less frequently with combinations of technologies that include biomarkers and cytology. HPV […]
Developing Nations, Including India, Capable of Producing Lower-Cost HPV Vaccine
By: Tanya Thomas on July 12, 2010 at 10:39 AM Vaccine manufacturers in India and other developing nations can produce a lower-cost HPV vaccine despite the complicated array of patent protections on the technology, according to an Indian-origin scientist at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy. At a cost of at least 300dollars […]
Gardasil: from bench, to bedside, to blunder
The Lancet, Volume 375, Issue 9719 , Pages 963 – 964, 20 March 2010 By: Peter S. Bach The 2006 approval of Merck’s human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine (Gardasil) by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) exemplified the potential of bench-to-bedside research. This vaccine against the virus that causes cervical cancer received immediate recommendation […]
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