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More Questions About Gardasil®

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

A Recent CNN Article lead with this headline…
Gardasil® Deaths, Gardasil® Side Effects, Gardasil® Paralysis -
Is the HPV Vaccine Given to Prevent Cervical Cancer Causing More Medical Problems?
A vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer is coming under fresh scrutiny amid thousands of complaints linking it to a range of health problems.
Gardasil® has been the subject of [...]

What are Vaginal and Vulvar Cancers

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

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 the [...]

Merck Wins Expanded Uses for Gardasil®

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

FDA News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 12, 2008

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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 [...]

Safe, Cost Effective PAP Test or Gardasil®

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Researchers and public health officials are FINALLY waking up, and stepping up, to ask tough questions about the cost effectiveness of administering a very expensive, and not thoroughly vetted vaccine to every girl and young woman in the free world. Is the use of Gardasil® as a preventive measure against cervical cancer, the correct utilization [...]

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, [...]

Researchers Examine Effect of Sex Education on Risk of Pregnancy, STIs Among Teens

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Summary of “Abstinence-Only and Comprehensive Sex Education and the Initiation of Sexual Activity and Teen Pregnancy,” Kohler et al., Journal of Adolescent Health, April 2008.
Pamela Kohler and Lisa Manhart of the University of Washington’s Center for AIDS and STD and William Lafferty of UW’s Department of Health Services examined the effect of formal sex education [...]

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 [...]

Schools Need More ‘Frank Talk’ in Sex Education Courses To Curb STDs

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

A recent CDC study that found that about 25% of U.S. girls and young women ages 14 to 19 have at least one of four common sexually transmitted infections is “enough to make you wonder why schools don’t do a better job of sex education,” Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy writes in an opinion piece.
Milloy [...]