By: Amanda Gardner 09 November 2010 Few teenage girls and young women are getting the human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV), and many of those who start the regimen fail to take all three doses, new research reveals. Although studies have shown that the HPV vaccine is safe and effective against several strains of the sexually transmitted […]
Health clinic stocks Gardasil
By: Hannah Hynes-Petty 28 October 2010 Ask and you shall receive. The Health Clinic received a shipment of the vaccine for Human Pappillomavirus (HPV) earlier this month after Gail Hacker, a doctor at the facility, enrolled in a program to receive the medicine. Shots of Gardasil cost $10 each and will require a series of […]
GlaxoSmithKline Drops the Price of Cervarix
Source: PharmaLive 25 October 2010 Today, GlaxoSmithKline Inc. (Canada), announced its plan to reduce the cost of CERVARIX™ by 30%. The cost reduction is in response to recent research that demonstrates the relatively high price of cervical cancer vaccines, coupled with a low understanding of their protective benefits topped the list of reasons why the […]
HPV Vaccine Side Effects as Expected
Posted in ‘Prescription Cancer Drugs’ 10 October 2010 Side effects of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine (Gardasil) have been pretty much what researchers expected, the CDC and FDA reported, although there were enough instances of of fainting and blood clots reported to worry critics. With more than 23 million doses of the vaccine distributed, most […]
HPV: Who immunizes? Who pays?
By: Lynn Shapiro 08 October 2010 The anticipated approval of Gardasil [Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent (Types 6, 11, 16, and 18) Vaccine, Recombinant, Merck] for women 27 to 45 years of age has thrown the issue of vaccine reimbursement for pharmacists into the spotlight. A Merck spokeswoman told Drug Topics that the company expects to hear […]
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