“Americans have a shorter life expectancy than people in 41 other countries — even though Americans spend more on health care, on average, than people anywhere else. We’ve done it to ourselves. As a nation we’re over-medicated and undernourished. We’re overly obsessed with how we look and undervalue how we feel. We put an overemphasis [...]
GlaxoSmithKline has won another European contract for the cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix. The Dutch government selected Cervarix for a new program to vaccinate all girls aged 12 with a catch-up program for girls aged 13 to 16 in the second half of 2009. In the first year some 350,000 Dutch girls will get the jab.
Exercise can lower your overall risk of cancer – but only if you get a good night’s sleep After my last week’s rant about focusing efforts to PREVENT cancer as well as CURING cancer, I was please to review a research study that did just that! The study examined the link between exercise and cancer [...]
The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics weighs in on mandatory Gardasil shots A trio of academics have joined the ‘Pro/Con’ debate over the policy of requiring girls to be vaccinated with Merck’s Gardasil. In a recent issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Gail Javitt of Johns Hopkins’s Berman Institute of Bioethics, [...]
According to Merck, their HPV vaccine, Gardasil has proved 90% effective in preventing the uncomfortable affliction known as genital warts in men. They plan to present the results of a recent study at a European medical conference later today. It is their hope that the results of this study will support their case with the FDA. They have requested approval to market Gardasil to boys as a way to prevent genital warts, but as of yet the FDA has not moved on a reply.
Recall — Firm Press Release FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company. Johnson and Johnson–Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals Company Announces Urgent Voluntary Nationwide Recall Of Infants’ [...]
Is finding a “Cure” the best and highest use of our intention? A friend sent me this image yesterday, with the message, “From her cute lips to God’s ear.” I smiled and sent the e-mail on to my writing partner, Leslie. But last night, as I fell asleep, I thought about the e-mail’s real message. [...]
Yes We Did… Left, right, or independent — yesterday’s election was a paradigm shift of tectonic proportion. Millions of women joined together, gave time, talent and treasure and changed the out come of thousands of local, state and national elections. The millions of women who cast their votes yesterday did so under the hard-won ‘Grace’ [...]
Vaccine Watchdog Group Calls for Transparency WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to publicly release the study design, data and names of principal investigators involved in a statement this week maintaining that Gardasil vaccine is safe with no serious [...]
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