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My Girl Died As ‘Guinea Pig’ For Gardasil®

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

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 […]

GARDASIL Vaccine: The Damage Continues Part II

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

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 […]

GARDASIL Vaccine: The Damage Continues

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Girls and Young Women Pay the Price for
Corporate Greed and the FDA’s Failure to Protect
Reported by Barbara Loe Fisher

The vaccine reaction reports keep coming into the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) from mothers describing how they took their healthy teenage girls into a pediatrician or gynecologist’s office where they were given a GARDASIL shot and, […]

Cash Bombs Fall on Canadian Officials as Merck Marketing Blitzkrieg Moves North

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Is the HPV vaccine a victory for women’s health or the triumph of aggressive marketing?
Canadian reporters struggle to shed light on a muddled debate that’s as much about business as it is about health.
When federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced $300 million in funding for a program to vaccinate girls and young women against the […]

GARDASIL AND HPV INFECTION — GET THE FACTS

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

HPV Report from the National Vaccine Information Center

National Vaccine Information Center (Debold V, Downey C, Fisher B). (2007). NVIC Analysis of […]

There is A New Book in the Iconic Woman Bookshelf…

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

The Secret History of the War on Cancer
By Devra Davis, PhD, MPH
Review by Leslie Botha, Holy Hormones Honey!
In a recent interview on CSPAN Davis stated, “For much of its history, the cancer war has been fighting the wrong battles, with the wrong weapons, against the wrong enemies.”

The Secret History of the War on Cancer by […]

FDA To Review Merck’s Application To Expand HPV Vaccine Gardasil’s Approval To Older Women

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

FDA has granted priority review status to Merck’s application to expand marketing of its human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil to women ages 27 to 45, the company said Wednesday, Reuters reports. The designation means that an FDA decision could come within six months, according to Reuters. currently is approved by the FDA for use by […]

The Man Who Would Decree An Untested Public Health Policy

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

…and arrogantly endanger of generation of Texas girls
Backgrounder on the man who would be emperor…
Rick Perry was elevated to the Governor of Texas in late 2000 from Lieutenant Governor upon the election of then-Governor George W. Bush as President of the United States. Perry was subsequently elected Governor in his own right in 2002 and […]

HPV — A Problem of Public Health or Politics?

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

HPV in the United States and Developing Nations: A Problem of Public Health or Politics?
The Global AIDS bill, signed into law on May 27, 2003 by President Bush [for full text: Library of Congress, search bill number, H.R. 1298.] requires an analysis of the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) in Sub-Saharan Africa and a study […]

Oral Contraceptives, HPV and Risk of Cervical Cancer

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Global Research Sources—Asking Questions Ignored by FDA
An analysis of case-control studies has found that use of oral contraceptives for ≥ 5 years in women with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is associated with an increased risk of cervical cancer.  This confirms existing knowledge and emphasises the need for regular cervical screening of all women aged 20-69 […]