In Pursuit of Profit
Gardasil is the first virus-like particle (VLP) based vaccine ever approved
Researching Merck’s Gardasil HPV vaccine since 2005, I have read through mountains of data, reviewed medical trial results, FDA and CDC press releases, Adverse Reaction Reports, Merck’s Annual Stockholder’s report, and thousands of articles by both Big Phama’s Evangelists and Critics. In [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Gardasil, Future Generations Put At Risk
March 30, 2009 – 11:48 am
Can Glaxo learn from Merck
March 29, 2009 – 7:34 am
As Glaxo is forced to wait for FDA’s approval for its own HPV vaccine, Cervarix, will the company use its time on the sidelines to absorb lessons learned from Merck’s missteps? There is a building backlash against Merck’s ‘BIG-FOOT’, political lobbing strategy that aggressively pushes politicians to mandate its vaccine. Merck has pushed through from one political firestorm to the next. An increasing resentful public is feeling like Atlanta to Merck’s Sherman-like march to market share.
HPV Vaccine, Garasil, Blamed for Teen’s Paralysis
March 23, 2009 – 10:43 am
“The tragic story of Gardasil vaccine is one that is playing out real time in the homes of trusting parents, who thought they were doing the right thing to try to make their daughters “one less,” and in the 21st century cyberspace forum of public opinion as well as on television.”
Barbara Loe Fisher, President and [...]
The Is A Good START
March 23, 2009 – 9:04 am
Published at www.nejm.org March 18, 2009 (10.1056/NEJMe0902377)
The Medical Device Safety Act of 2009
Gregory D. Curfman, M.D., Stephen Morrissey, Ph.D., and Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D.
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Challenges for the FDA: the future of drug safety — workshop summary. Washington, [...]
Gardasil—What Will Michelle Obama Do?
March 20, 2009 – 2:01 pm
Will Sasha and Malia Obama be TWO More Girls Put at Risk
by The HPV Vaccine, Gardasil
No matter where you stand within the American, political color-spectrum, Reds and Blues all agree: Michelle Obama is a fiercely protective Momma. To my mind that is a very good thing. However as the Adverse Reactions to the [...]
FDA Approved First DNA Test for Two Types of Human Papillomavirus
March 18, 2009 – 10:08 pm
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March 13, 2009
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Agency also approved second DNA test for wider range of HPV types
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved the first DNA test that identifies the two types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that cause the majority [...]