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Loss of Sense of Smell with Intranasal Cold Remedies Containing Zinc

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

FDA recommends that consumers stop using these products and throw them away

On June 16, 2009 The FDA issued the following product recall. The recall was triggered when the FDA received more than 130 reports of anosmia associated with the use of Zicam zinc-containing intranasal products. FDA is alerting consumers that Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Gel, Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Swabs, and Zicam Cold Remedy Swabs, Kids Size, a discontinued product that consumers may still have in their homes, have all been associated with long lasting or permanent loss of smell (referred to as anosmia).

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Sen. Grassley (R-IA) Keeps Pharmaceutical Industry, FDA In The Crosshairs

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

A BIG thank you to the Philadelphia Inquirer… One of the few major media outlets that consistently cover Big Pharma and the FDA… This weekend The Philadelphia Inquirer examined how Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has “found a congressional calling” in “creating uproars that often transform public opinion and policy” and “in recent years … has [...]

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Drug Web site raises important questions

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

By DAN RODEN, M.D. • October 10, 2008 Dr. Dan Roden is professor of medicine and pharmacology, director of the Oates Institute for Experimental Therapeutics, and assistant vice chancellor for personalized medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. The Food and Drug Administration recently announced a public Web site listing potential drug side effects it [...]

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Science Experiment Likely To End Up on Your Dinner Table

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

FDA Releases Draft Guidance on Regulation of Genetically Engineered Animals Printer-friendly PDF (420 KB) On this page: Genetic Engineering Benefits of GE Animals GE Animals Regulated Under New Animal Drug Provisions The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is inviting the public to comment on draft guidance that discusses FDA’s approach to regulating genetically engineered (GE) [...]

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Gardasil Financial Factoid

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Follow The Money… Merck has a growing economic interest in Virginia. In December 2006, Merck announced it would invest $57 million to expand its Elkton, Va., plant to make Gardasil, helped by a $700,000 grant from a state economic development agency that is part of the executive branch. Two months later, Gov. Tim Kaine, who [...]

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NY Times Exposes Merck Gardasil® Predatory Advertising Campaign

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

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

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

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®

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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