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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Gardasil May Raise Risk of Guillain-Barre Syndrome

Girls and women who receive the Gardasil vaccine to prevent cervical cancer may be at increased risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare but serious disorder of the nervous system, in the first six weeks, especially the first two weeks, after vaccination. The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology.

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Before You Vaccinate Your Child

Is death by vaccination covered by your medical and life insurance policies? What is the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and how does it work. Before you expose your child to Gardasil, check up on your plan “P”. What happens if everything goes “Pear-shaped.”

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Merck Puts Young Lives At Risk

We don’t need Gardasil to prevent cervical cancer. Gardasil is the closest thing I’ve ever seen to an out and out pharmaceutical hoax foisted on American women under the guise of “public health.” It is dangerous and only exists on the market today as a testament to corporate greed and the “profits over people” mentality.

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Viral Messaging and the HPV-Vaccine, Gardasil

In the age of Internet-enabled, global communications Gardasil Moms have adapted the tradition phone-tree to social media. Our keyboards and video cameras have become our coffee klatch. We are organizing, petitioning, ‘outing’ and lobbing politicians and government regulators. We are contacting the CDC “in numbers to big to ignore” and demanding a more proactive policy to protect our girls from Merck’s rapacious profit machine.

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The World Must Know

Review of The Stoning of Soraya M. powerful tale of a village’s persecution of an innocent woman becomes both a daring act of witness and a compelling parable about mob rule. t is both a classic fable of good and evil and an inspiring tribute to the many fighting against injustice around the world. In theaters: June 26, 2009Copyright © 2009 Roadside Attractions

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Patient Recruitment for Clinical Trials Now on Twitter

New York-based Applied Informatics has developed a “do-it-yourself” platform patient recruitment tool that moves the search for clinical trials onto social media sites like Twitter. It also allows would-be subjects with a personal health record (PHR) in Microsoft HealthVault or Google Health to import the information in lieu of filling out an online pre-screening form to be matched for trials.

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Cervical Cancer Statistics

Cervical Cancer Statistics- Cervical cancer used to be the leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States. However, in the past 40 years, the number of cases of cervical cancer and the number of deaths from cervical cancer have decreased significantly. This decline largely is the result of many women getting regular Pap tests, which can find cervical precancer before it turns into cancer

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HPV-Associated Cervical Cancer

Understanding The Basics Earlier this week I read a report concerning the public’s general confusion about cervical cancer — its causes, detection and treatment. The sentence that I just can’t get out of my mind is a question asked by a teenage boy. “Can I get Cervical Cancer?” The kid was serious and his attitude [...]

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Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection

Genital HPV infection is a sexually transmitted disease caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), a group of viruses that includes more than 100 different strains or types. Most people who become infected with HPV will not have any symptoms and will clear the infection on their own. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection and contracting it does not mean it is a death sentence.

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Gardasil Economics

Part of public health policy is determining the best use of funds – to save or protect the most lives with the fewest resources. With all the demands on health care from heart disease, diabetes, AIDS, and other types of cancer, the economics for Gardasil don’t add up.

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