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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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EPA Unlikely to Limit Rocket Fuel in Your Tap Water

Some folks refer to their morning coffee as “Rocket Fuel.” If they are making their coffee with tap water, they may be speaking literally, not figuratively. They just don’t know it. The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to rule that it will not set a drinking-water safety standard for perchlorate. This component of rocket fuel [...]

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Twice as many women die from stroke every year than from breast cancer

Overall, stroke is this country’s third-leading killer. About 700,000 Americans will have one this year, according to the American Stroke Association. But 55-percent of all strokes and 60-percent of stroke deaths occur in women. About 100,000 women die annually of stroke, 40,000 more than the number of men who die from it. The fact that [...]

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FDA Unveils List of 20 Drugs In Side-Effect Probes

Goal Is to Provide Signs of Possibility Of Adverse Effects By JARED A. FAVOLE WSJ.com, September 5, 2008 8:07 p.m. WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday unveiled a report listing 20 drugs that the agency is investigating for potential side effects, as part of a new policy to warn patients and health-care [...]

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More About PAP SMEAR Option

From: Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans Health, United States, 2005 Pap Smear A Pap smear is a microscopic examination of cells scraped from the cervix that is used to detect cancerous or precancerous conditions of the cervix and other medical conditions. If detected, precancerous conditions can be treated before they become malignant. [...]

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Safe, Cost Effective PAP Test or Gardasil®

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 [...]

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NY Times Exposes Merck Gardasil® Predatory Advertising Campaign

Opportunistic marketing isn’t new. Mass merchandising of tobacco products to minors delivered millions of “Hooked for Life” or at least until premature death ‘users” for BIG TOBACCO. With recent regulations that allegedly limited marketing tobacco to minors, rapacious advertising agencies and armies of mercenaries (lobbyists) have moved to a new, even more, profitable venue —BIG [...]

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Researchers Question Wide Use of HPV Vaccines

FINALLY! In June of 2006, my writing partner, Leslie Botha, and I, started writing articles cautioning women against the use of Gardasil® for girls and young women. We cited the limited nature of the clinical trials (the number, and ages of women tested) and the length of time from the clinical trials and the FDA [...]

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My Girl Died As ‘Guinea Pig’ For Gardasil®

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 [...]

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CDC Spin on Gardasil and Its Safety

Quick Links CDC HPV and HPV Disease Information CDC HPV Vaccine Information CDC Vaccine Safety Information HPV Questions and Answers FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research To Report an Adverse Event in VAERS Related Information on Guillain-Barré Syndrome Information from FDA and CDC on Gardasil and its Safety July 22, 2008 Consumers, parents, health care [...]

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