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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Gardasil — When Mercketing Pre-empts Medicine

August 28, 2008 – 8:25 am

It is not hard to hear about Gardasil…
“In television advertisements, a cast of hip people in their 20s — artists, writers and professionals — describe why they got the shots, in the language of liberation, such as, “I chose to get vaccinated because my dreams don’t include cervical cancer.” The advertisements direct viewers to gardasil.com, [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Gardasil | Comments (0)

More About PAP SMEAR Option

August 27, 2008 – 8:16 am

From: Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans Health,
United States, 2005
Pap Smear
A Pap smear is a microscopic examination of cells scraped from the cervix that is used to detect cancerous or precancerous conditions of the cervix and other medical conditions. If detected, precancerous conditions can be treated before they become malignant. Between 1975 and [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Cancer Research, PAP Test | Comments (0)

Safe, Cost Effective PAP Test or Gardasil®

August 26, 2008 – 9:54 am

Researchers and public health officials are FINALLY waking up, and stepping up, to ask tough questions about the cost effectiveness of administering a very expensive, and not thoroughly vetted vaccine to every girl and young woman in the free world. Is the use of Gardasil® as a preventive measure against cervical cancer, the correct utilization [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in PAP Test | Comments (0)

Gardasil Financial Factoid

August 26, 2008 – 8:01 am

Follow The Money…
Merck has a growing economic interest in Virginia. In December 2006, Merck announced it would invest $57 million to expand its Elkton, Va., plant to make Gardasil, helped by a $700,000 grant from a state economic development agency that is part of the executive branch. Two months later, Gov. Tim Kaine, who has [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Big Pharma Watch, Cervical Cancer, FDA Failure To Protect, Follow The Money, Gardasil®, HPV Infection, HPV Vaccine | Comments (0)

NY Times Exposes Merck Gardasil® Predatory Advertising Campaign

August 25, 2008 – 5:57 pm

Opportunistic marketing isn’t new. Mass merchandising of tobacco products to minors delivered millions of “Hooked for Life” or at least until premature death ‘users” for BIG TOBACCO. With recent regulations that allegedly limited marketing tobacco to minors, rapacious advertising agencies and armies of mercenaries (lobbyists) have moved to a new, even more, profitable venue —BIG [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Cervical Cancer, FDA Failure To Protect, Follow The Money, Gardasil®, HPV Infection, HPV Vaccine, Prescription Drug Side Effects | Comments (0)

Researchers Question Wide Use of HPV Vaccines

August 21, 2008 – 1:04 pm

FINALLY!
In June of 2006, my writing partner, Leslie Botha, and I, started writing articles cautioning women against the use of Gardasil® for girls and young women. We cited the limited nature of the clinical trials (the number, and ages of women tested) and the length of time from the clinical trials and the FDA [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Big Pharma Watch, Cancer Research, Cervical Cancer, FDA Clinical Trials, FDA Failure To Protect, Follow The Money, HPV Infection, HPV Vaccine, Take Action! | Comments (0)

Skip The Drugs…Change Your Food Sources

August 21, 2008 – 10:14 am

Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
I was doing some research for a fiend whose child had just been “diagnosed” Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) by a school nurse who suggested drug therapy. My first thought was a Kindergarten version of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’…dazed and compliant preschoolers.
In the past decade, ADHD, ”Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, a neurobehavioral [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Big Pharma Watch, Follow The Money, Prescription Drug Side Effects, Proactive Nutrition, Take Action! | Comments (0)

PTA Pimps School Girls

August 20, 2008 – 8:12 pm

Are Bikini-Clad Nubiles Really the Answer to School Budget Shortfalls
It’s Summer: Time to Clean Up the Bikini Car Wash
By Kimberly Gadette – WeNews commentator
Editor’s Note: The following is a commentary. The opinions expressed are those of the author and not necessarily the views of Women’s Enews.
(WOMENSENEWS)–Ah, the sights of summer: movie lines snaking ’round [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Take Action! | Comments (0)

My Girl Died As ‘Guinea Pig’ For Gardasil®

August 18, 2008 – 11:20 am

In a previous Inconvenient Woman Blog entry we noted the death of 17 year old Jessica Ericzon, “an all-American teenager,” whose tragic death has been tied to the Merck vaccine Gardasil®. Jefferson County Medical Examiner Samuel Livingstone, reported Jessie’s death to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. Her family started the Jessica Ericzon Memorial [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Big Pharma Watch, Cervical Cancer, FDA Failure To Protect, Follow The Money, HPV Infection, HPV Vaccine, STD Infection, Take Action! | Comments (0)

GARDASIL Vaccine: The Damage Continues Part II

August 14, 2008 – 10:55 am

More Reports of Coincidental Collateral Damage
 Reported by Barbara Loe Fisher
The reports of HPV vaccine reactions, injuries and deaths continue to roll in, not only to NVIC but also to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (Search HPV4 at: http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.html) newspapers, and television stations.
And the only response that comes from officials at the CDC, FDA [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Big Pharma Watch, Cervical Cancer, FDA Failure To Protect, Follow The Money, HPV Infection, HPV Vaccine, PAP Test, STD Infection | Comments (0)