Just let me take the vaginal specula out of the refrigerator, and I’ll be right with you, my dear… The 2007 edition of “Making the Grade on Women’s Health” by the National Women’s Law Center gives a state by state ranking of the health of women across the United States. It’s not good! Quel Surprise! [...]
Kissable Lips? Maybe, Not So Much! Lipsticks tested by a consumer rights group found that more than half contained lead and some popular brands including Cover Girl, L’Oreal and Christian Dior had more lead than others. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics said Thursday that tests on 33 brand-name red lipsticks by the Bodycote Testing Group [...]
Lipstick, like candy, is ingested. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a coalition of public health, environmental and women’s groups, said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not set a limit for lead in lipstick.
It’s no mystery why Merck and Glaxo are jostling for ascendancy here. Estimates of the market for HPV- vaccines run to several billions, even if their use was restricted to prevention of cervical cancer. And anyone who doesn’t expect ‘HPV vaccine mission creep’ hasn’t noted Merck’s well documented market penetration Modus operandi.
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