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Gardasil Economics

April 22, 2009 – 11:43 pm

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.

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Gardasil | Comments (0)

More Questions About Gardasil®

October 13, 2008 – 7:51 am

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 [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Gardasil®, STD Infection | Comments (0)

FDA Addresses Questions About Gardasil®

September 29, 2008 – 8:13 am

Those of you who are regular readers know that I think Gardasil® is the wrong solution for preventing Cervical Cancer. It is my considered opinion that Gardasil® has one purpose — it is a much needed cash cow for Merck, in their time of financial need.  My attempt at “Fair and Balanced” reporting is to [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Gardasil® | Comments (0)

Merck Wins Expanded Uses for Gardasil®

September 16, 2008 – 12:09 pm

FDA News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 12, 2008

Media Inquiries:
Karen Riley, 301-827-6242
Consumer Inquiries:
888-INFO-FDA

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 [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Gardasil | Comments (0)

Safe, Cost Effective PAP Test or Gardasil®

August 26, 2008 – 9:54 am

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 [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in PAP Test | Comments (0)

My Girl Died As ‘Guinea Pig’ For Gardasil®

August 18, 2008 – 11:20 am

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 [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Big Pharma Watch, Cervical Cancer, FDA Failure To Protect, Follow The Money, HPV Infection, HPV Vaccine, STD Infection, Take Action! | Comments (0)

GARDASIL Vaccine: The Damage Continues Part II

August 14, 2008 – 10:55 am

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 [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Big Pharma Watch, Cervical Cancer, FDA Failure To Protect, Follow The Money, HPV Infection, HPV Vaccine, PAP Test, STD Infection | Comments (0)

GARDASIL Vaccine: The Damage Continues

August 11, 2008 – 1:44 am

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, [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Big Pharma Watch, Cervical Cancer, FDA Failure To Protect, HPV Infection, HPV Vaccine, PAP Test, STD Infection | Comments (0)

CDC Spin on Gardasil and Its Safety

August 1, 2008 – 8:36 am

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 [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Big Pharma Watch, FDA Failure To Protect, Follow The Money, HPV Vaccine, Your Body/Your Self | Comments (0)

A Hard Plastic Is Raising Hard Questions

April 25, 2008 – 10:22 am

Are toxic plastics lurking in your kitchen?
It’s a question many families are asking after reports last week that a chemical used to make baby bottles, water bottles and food containers is facing increasing scrutiny by health officials in Canada and the United States.
The substance is bisphenol-a, or BPA, [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Breast Cancer | Comments (0)