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Monthly Archives: September 2008

FDA Addresses Questions About Gardasil®

Those of you who are regular readers know that I think Gardasil® is the wrong solution for preventing Cervical Cancer. It is my considered opinion that Gardasil® has one purpose — it is a much needed cash cow for Merck, in their time of financial need.  My attempt at “Fair and Balanced” reporting is to [...]

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Abortion Factoids

Declines in U.S. abortion rates mask the problem of unintended pregnancy among women of color and women with lower incomes, data released by the Guttmacher Institute on Sept. 23 showed. Abortion rates dropped 33 percent between 1980 and 2004, reaching the lowest level since 1974. But amid that, the abortion rate for black women was [...]

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Hysterectomies in California have declined significantly

Hysterectomy Less Frequent and Has Fewer Complications By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: September 19, 2008 Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. DAVIS, Calif., Sept. 19 — Hysterectomies in California have declined significantly since the early 1990s, as have the rates of complications associated with [...]

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Gardasil VAERS adverse reactions

1824 cases of adverse reactions to the Gardasil vaccination made by Merck. 35 of these adverse reactions are spontaneous abortions. These can be located on pages:

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Twice as many women die from stroke every year than from breast cancer

Overall, stroke is this country’s third-leading killer. About 700,000 Americans will have one this year, according to the American Stroke Association. But 55-percent of all strokes and 60-percent of stroke deaths occur in women. About 100,000 women die annually of stroke, 40,000 more than the number of men who die from it. The fact that [...]

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Equal-rights men lose out to traditional men in wages

A 25-year U.S. study has found that men who treat women as equals in the workplace make less money when compared to men with traditional views about women. The researchers also found that women earn less money than men do, in either type of workplace setting. The conclusions of the study found that men with [...]

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Science Experiment Likely To End Up on Your Dinner Table

FDA Releases Draft Guidance on Regulation of Genetically Engineered Animals Printer-friendly PDF (420 KB) On this page: Genetic Engineering Benefits of GE Animals GE Animals Regulated Under New Animal Drug Provisions The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is inviting the public to comment on draft guidance that discusses FDA’s approach to regulating genetically engineered (GE) [...]

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What are Vaginal and Vulvar Cancers

Vaginal and Vulvar Cancers Cancer is a disease in which cells in the body grow out of control. Cancer is always named for the part of the body where it starts, even if it spreads to other body parts later. When cancer starts in the vagina, it is called vaginal cancer. The vagina, also called [...]

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Merck Wins Expanded Uses for Gardasil®

FDA News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 12, 2008 Media Inquiries: Karen Riley, 301-827-6242 Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA FDA Approves Expanded Uses for Gardasil® to Include Preventing Certain Vulvar and Vaginal Cancers The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the approval of the vaccine Gardasil for the prevention of vaginal and vulvar cancer caused by Human [...]

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FDA Consumer Update addressing recent, questions about the safety of Gardasil, a HPV-vaccine that prevents infection with types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that cause most cases of cervical cancer and genital warts, and some vulvar and vaginal cancers.

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