“The tragic story of Gardasil vaccine is one that is playing out real time in the homes of trusting parents, who thought they were doing the right thing to try to make their daughters “one less,” and in the 21st century cyberspace forum of public opinion as well as on television.” Barbara Loe Fisher, President [...]

As Reported on KVUE News, Sunday February 15, 2009… It was a hot issue here in Texas a couple of years ago.  Now Gardasil, the vaccine against the virus that causes cervical caner, is back in the spotlight. Gabi Swank, a 16-year-old from Wichita, Kansas, says she and other girls are dying from the side-effects [...]

Shouldn’t we ask the forbidden question at least once? Is it possible to develop a ‘simple metric’…like PROFIT PER FATALITY? In a time of diminishing public health resources and increased public health need, should we not look at allocation of health dollars using a needs / benefit ratio.

The introduction of Gardasil (Merck & Co, Whitehouse
Station, NJ, USA) as a vaccine to the human papillomavirus
(HPV) has received much media attention worldwide since its
approval by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2006.
From the United States to the United Kingdom, New Zealand,
and Malaysia, news headlines have highlighted various issues
and controversies surrounding the HPV vaccine.

Vaccine Watchdog Group Calls for Transparency WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to publicly release the study design, data and names of principal investigators involved in a statement this week maintaining that Gardasil vaccine is safe with no serious [...]