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- [N.Y. Suffragists Took the 14th to Polling Booths](https://iconicwoman.com/gender-politics/ny-suffragists-took-the-14th-to-polling-booths/) - Yes We Did… Left, right, or independent — yesterday’s election was a paradigm shift of tectonic proportion. Millions of women joined together, gave time, talent and treasure and changed the out come of thousands of local, state and national elections. The millions of women who cast their votes yesterday did so under the hard-won ‘Grace’
- [Mercks's Gardasil Vaccine Not Proven Safe for Little Girls](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-health/merckss-gardasil-vaccine-not-proven-safe-for-little-girls/) - National Vaccine Information Center Criticizes FDA for Fast Tracking Licensure NVIC Press Release June 27, 2006 MERCK'S GARDASIL VACCINE NOT PROVEN SAFE FOR LITTLE GIRLS National Vaccine Information Center Criticizes FDA for Fast Tracking Licensure Washington, D.C. - The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling on the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
- [FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-health/fda-safety-information-and-adverse-event-reporting-program/) - Instructions and resources to report serious adverse events for human medical products, including potential and actual product use errors and product quality problems associated with the use of: FDA-regulated drugs; biologics (including human cells, tissues, and cellular and tissue-based products); medical devices (including in vitro diagnostics) and special nutritional products and cosmetics
- [FDA Unveils List of 20 Drugs In Side-Effect Probes](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-health/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
- [New Safety Information Identified by the Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS)](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-health/new-safety-information-identified-by-the-adverse-event-reporting-system-aers/) - Potential Signals of Serious Risks What is FDA posting? The following reports list any potential signals of serious risks/new safety information that were identified using the AERS database during the indicated quarter. The appearance of a drug on this list does not mean that FDA has concluded that the drug has this listed risk. It
- [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/vaccine-adverse-event-reporting-system-vaers/) - The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) requires health care providers to report adverse events (possible side effects) that occur following vaccination, so the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) in 1990. VAERS is a national passive reporting system that accepts reports from the public on adverse events associated with vaccines licensed in the United States.
- [FDA Issues Warning on Four Asthma Drugs](http://holyhormones.com/womens-health/wellness/fda-issues-warning-on-four-asthma-drugs/) - The FDA is taking steps to curb use of asthma drugs Advair, Symbicort, Foradil and Serevent, saying these drugs should only be used by asthmatics who can't control their disease with other drugs — and then only for the shortest time possible.
- [Call For Scientific Inquiry Into The HPV Vaccine Used in The UK](http://holyhormones.com/vaccinations/hpv-vaccine/call-for-scientific-inquiry-into-the-hpv-vaccine-used-in-the-uk/) - Executive Director of the Alliance for Natural Health, Robert Verkerk, stated: “Young girls in the UK—as well as their parents and guardians—deserve to have the full facts on the risks and benefits of this vaccine to help them make properly informed choices. The NHS position is that the vaccine is safe, but the facts would suggest otherwise. Presently, there are no adequate data available on the comparative risks of Cervarix and Gardasil. Neither is there adequate information on the factors which may predispose certain individuals to serious adverse reactions, nor about the duration and effectiveness of immunity following single and multiple vaccinations. It is in the public interest—and of utmost urgency—that these key questions are answered by an independent scientific review panel and are made public.”
- [FDA Gifts Merck's Garasil With Broader Market Access](http://holyhormones.com/global-gardasil-concerns/gardasil-silgard/fda-gifts-mercks-garasil-with-broader-market-access/) - Merck’s Garasil vaccine, promoted to prevent cervical cancer and genital warts, roared onto the market in 2006, but since then has decelerated sharply. Merck has been lobbying to increase its potential market to boys and mature women. It failed to persuade FDA to broaden use to older women--up to the age of 45--but now has convinced an agency advisory committee that Gardasil would be useful for boys and young men.
- [FDA Approves Vaccines for H1N1 Influenza Virus](http://holyhormones.com/?s=FDA+Approves+Vaccines+for+H1N1+Influenza+Virus&submit=Submit) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved four vaccines for use against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus. The vaccines—made by CSL Limited, MedImmune LLC, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Limited, and sanofi pasteur Inc.—will be distributed nationally after the initial lots become available. This is expected to occur within the next four weeks.
- [Is Merck Overselling a Cancer Vaccine?](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/is-merck-overselling-a-cancer-vaccine/) - Fresh controversies are heating up over the marketing of products to prevent cervical cancer The U.S. Food & Drug Administration is gearing up to make critical decisions about two controversial vaccines. On Sept. 9 an FDA advisory committee will consider whether Merck (MRK)'s Gardasil, given to girls to prevent cancer-causing human papilloma virus (HPV), should
- [FDA Staffers Stick With Their HPV Vaccine Position](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/fda-staffers-stick-with-their-hpv-vaccine-position/) - The review of these new applications is only likely to heat up the HPV Vaccine controversy. Both vaccines have been harshly criticized by social conservatives in the U.S. And some medical experts have joined in as well, arguing that screening can be an equally effective method in stopping cancer. Nevertheless, more than 100 countries have approved the vaccines and many strongly support their use, noting high rates of efficacy.
- [MERCK Press Release Touting Clinical Efficacy of Gardasil for Mature Women](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/merck-press-release-touting-clinical-efficacy-of-gardasil-for-mature-women/) - Gardasil® is the only HPV vaccine to have clinical efficacy and safety for women up to 45 years added to its product information. Gardasil® is a four-type (6,11,16,18) HPV vaccine. In addition to unsurpassed and sustained cervical cancer protection, Gardasil® can protect from cervical, vulvar and vaginal pre-cancer, and from genital warts caused by HPV types 6, 11, 16 and 18. These four types together cause the vast majority of HPV-related genital diseases.1,3,4,5
- [BioSante Pharmaceuticals’ BioVantTM Adjuvanted Vaccine Reports 100% Protection From H1N1 Virus ](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/biosante-pharmaceuticals’-biovanttm-adjuvanted-vaccine-reports-100-protection-from-h1n1-virus/) - The BioSante presentation, "BioVant Calcium Phosphate (CaP) Nanoparticles: An Effective & Safe Adjuvant for Influenza Vaccines including H1N1 and H5N1," showed that BioVant-adjuvant effectively enhanced the natural immune response to the swine flu, using a BioVant-adjuvanted matrix protein M1 vaccine, and to H5N1 (bird flu), using a BioVant-adjuvanted H5N1 vaccine delivered via intranasal administration.
- [Rice Researchers Seek Better Vaccine Procedure to Target Flu Viruses](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/rice-researchers-seek-better-vaccine-procedure-to-target-flu-viruses/) - As manufacturers work furiously to make a vaccine to protect against 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus, a Rice University bioengineer is trying to improve the process for future flu seasons. The goal is to shorten the time it takes to identify targeted flu strains and manufacture the vaccines for them.
- [China Readies to Launch Mass Vaccination Campaign](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/china-readies-to-launch-mass-vaccination-campaign/) - With two new swine flu vaccines approved for use and five million doses scheduled for delivery this month, China is set to become the first country to begin a mass vaccination campaign against the H1N1 pandemic. But officials with the World Health Organization say that there are some concerns about potential side effects.
- [Vical Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Shows Strong Results in H1N1 Study](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/vical-pandemic-influenza-vaccine-shows-strong-results-in-h1n1-study/) - Vical Incorporated (Nasdaq:VICL) announced today that the company's DNA vaccine against A/H1N1 pandemic influenza (swine flu) has demonstrated robust immune responses in 100% of vaccinated animals against virus strains isolated from recent outbreaks in three distinct geographic locations -- California, Texas and Mexico.
- [Cervarix On Track for FDA Approval, Garasil to Have Expanded Use](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/cervarix-on-track-for-fda-approval-garasil-to-have-expanded-use/) - In twin votes likely to add considerable force to U.S. marketing efforts for HPV vaccines, an FDA expert panel has voted to back GlaxoSmithKline's long delayed application to market its HPV vaccine Cervarix to women and soon after supported Merck's application to extend the use of Gardasil to males. Glaxo shares gain 0.5 pct, Merck shares gain 1.9 pct.
- [Australia’s swine flu vaccination plans come under fire](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-health/australia’s-swine-flu-vaccination-plans-come-under-fire/) - The Australian Infection Control Association this week warned the government against proceeding with the programme, saying that the planned use of multidose vials (used to vaccinate several people) posed a "significant potential risk to patient safety." The association’s president, Claire Boardman, said that use of multidose vials would contravene national infection control guidelines (www.safetyandquality.gov.au/internet/safety/publishing.nsf/Content/02A94EEE98D72244CA25740F00251B98/$File/NationalInfectionControlGuidelines.pdf) and that numerous adverse events related to their use had been well documented.
- [Muscle density predicts risk of hospitalization](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-health/muscle-density-predicts-risk-of-hospitalization/) - A study conducted at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute indicated that elderly with low muscle density have a higher likelihood of being hospitalized than those with a more moderate ratio andsuggests it may be a better predictor of the risk of hospitalization than muscle mass or size
- [JAMA Declares Gardasil Safe, But Condems Ad Blitz](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/jama-declares-gardasil-safe-but-condems-ad-blitz/) - The latest issue of JAMA delivered a mixed blessing to Merck's Gardasil. In a headliner study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, the side effects of the human papillomavirus shot were deemed reasonable. Serious adverse events cropped in up those who got the vaccine--including some 32 deaths and two cases of Lou Gehrig's disease--but there's no evidence the shot actually caused them. The most common complications were fainting and clot risk.
- [Merck’s Back-to-School Special…](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/merck’s-back-to-school-special…/) - During Merck's recent earnings call, EVP Ken Frazier touted the Gardasil push, saying he expected "sequential growth" in the vaccine's sales "as we leverage the back-to-school season." Second-quarter sales amounted to $268 million, down 28 percent from the same period last year and 18 percent from two years ago.But--and this is a big 'but'--Frazier also said during that call that the 13-to-18-year-old market for Gardasil has already peaked. So despite the back-to-school campaign, Merck is looking outside that age group for any real growth in the vaccine. Frazier said the company is "firmly committed to achieving greater vaccination rates in the 19-to-26 age group." And it's still hoping for new indications--for boys and for women up to age 45--from the FDA.
- [AstraZeneca Cashes In On Global Swine Flu Windfall ](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/astrazeneca-cashes-in-on-global-swine-flu-windfall/) - MedImmune is putting its FluMist nasal spray technology to the test against swine flu. FluMist, which got off to a shaky start in the U.S., brought in only $104 million last year, a fraction of what the big global manufacturers have been able to earn with their flu shots. But all those naysayers who scorned the terms of the MedImmune buyout in the face of such weak performance could well be silenced by the rewards available when a pandemic hits. AstraZeneca plans to make 200 million doses of swine flu vaccine by next spring.
- [Is Your Medicine Making You Fat?](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-health/is-your-medicine-making-you-fat/) - Any medication, from antidepressants to antihistamines, has the potential to make you ravenous or sluggish, or meddle with your metabolism. Here are the worst offenders and how to fight back.
- [Gardasil is proven dangerous, yet it is still mandatory for immigrants](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/gardasil-is-proven-dangerous-yet-it-is-still-mandatory-for-immigrants/) - So why is it that USA citizens in many states have the option to choose whether they or their children have the HPV vaccine but immigrants can not? In order to become a permanent, legal resident of the U.S, immigrants now must receive a vaccine that is not required of U.S. citizens. This is like saying these people are less important or more likely to be infected. This surely is wrong.
- [FDA, CDC Continues Their Support of HPV Vaccine Gardasil](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/fda-cdc-continues-their-support-of-hpv-vaccine-gardasil/) - Earlier this week the Journal of the American Medical Association published an analysis of safety data that found the most common serious side effect was fainting, though some more severe adverse event occurred in Gardasil patients, including more than two dozen deaths. But the FDA and CDC say there's no evidence the deaths or other severe effects were actually caused by the shot, and the agencies emphasize that they have reviewed the same safety data repeatedly.
- [Gardasil Researcher, Dr. Diane Harper Speaks Out](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/gardasil-researcher-dr-diane-harper-speaks-out/) - Amid questions about the safety of the HPV vaccine Gardasil one of the lead researchers for the Merck drug is speaking out about its risks, benefits and aggressive marketing. Dr. Diane Harper says young girls and their parents should receive more complete warnings before receiving the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. Dr. Harper helped design and carry out the Phase II and Phase III safety and effectiveness studies to get Gardasil approved, and authored many of the published, scholarly papers about it. She has been a paid speaker and consultant to Merck. It’s highly unusual for a researcher to publicly criticize a medicine or vaccine she helped get approved.
- [HPV and Genital Warts](https://iconicwoman.com/genital-warts/hpv-and-genital-warts/) - Genital warts (condyloma) are small, fleshy growths that are found on the skin in the genital region. Most warts are painless, and many people don’t realize they have them. Occasionally, they spread and enlarge, looking like very tiny cauliflowers. The warts may be raised or reddened. Warts may sometimes also hurt or cause itching. They may grow on the large and small lips surrounding the vagina (vulva), around the anus, or on the urethra, cervix, vagina, rectum, bladder, penis, or scrotum. Genital warts vary greatly in size, color, shape, and texture, depending on where they are found.
- [What You Need to Know About Yeast Infection](https://iconicwoman.com/vaginal-yeast-infection/what-you-need-to-know-about-yeast-infection/) - What is Yeast and What Causes It? Signs and Symptoms of Yeast Vaginitis Yeast infections may cause no symptoms; Sometimes yeast is noted on a Pap test and does not require treatment, unless there are symptoms; There may be increased vaginal discharge with yeast infection; This is typically described as thick or curdy; There may be mild to moderate itching and irritation; If the genital skin becomes very irritated, it may become red, swollen and may develop splits.
- [HPV Testing – Is It for Me?](https://iconicwoman.com/follow-the-money/hpv-testing-–-is-it-for-me/) - The HPV test is helpful in women whose Pap test report is “ atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance”, often abbreviated as “ASC-US”. This means that the result is uncertain – it is not normal but it is also not abnormal in any precisely defined way. Some of these Pap tests with uncertain results show HPV infection on additional testing. So the HPV test can help your clinician understand the reason for the uncertain Pap. In addition, most experts believe that for women over 30, HPV testing along with a routine Pap test is the best way to screen for dysplasia or cervical cancer. This combination of testing is so reliable that if both tests are normal, the tests should be repeated only every three years.
- [Genital Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection in Women](https://iconicwoman.com/follow-the-money/genital-human-papillomavirus-hpv-infection-in-women/) - Be sure to get regular check-ups, including Pap tests. If you see genital skin changes, make an appointment with your health care provider for an exam. These feelings are normal. It is common for people with HPV to feel angry, upset, depressed or ashamed about their condition. Some women may also be concerned about the risk for cancer. Keep in mind that HPV can be managed and cervical cancer can almost always be prevented. Talk to your health care provider about your concerns. Keeping yourself healthy and not smoking can help boost you body’s natural defense system to fight the virus.
- [ Basic Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Education](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-infection/basic-human-papillomavirus-hpv-education/) - You can increase your chances of not having cervical cancer or precancerous changes in the future by protecting yourself against sexually transmitted infections, not smoking tobacco products, and by getting routine Pap smears. A Pap smear is only useful in detecting and preventing cervical cancer or precancerous changes if you return for follow-up evaluation and treatment appointments, when necessary. Keep in mind that it is very likely that the cause of your abnormal Pap smear can be easily treated, if treatment is necessary. In addition, the earlier abnormalities are treated, the easier they are to treat.
- [What Women Should Know about HPV and Cervical Health](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/what-women-should-know-about-hpv-and-cervical-health/) - HPV is a virus that is very common. In fact, most men and women are infected with HPV at some time in their lives. There are approximately 100 types of HPV. Some HPV typesonly infect the genital area and may cause warts, some cause mild changes in cervical cells that do not turn into cancer, and some cause changes that may become cervical cancer if present for many years. The types of HPV that are found in the genital areas are usually passed on during sexual contact (sexually transmitted). HPV types that cause warts on the hands or feet do not cause genital warts or cervical cell changes, nor do genital HPV types generally spread outside the genital area.
- [Get health-care reform right for women](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-health/get-health-care-reform-right-for-women/) - Women's health care is in fact basic health care: annual gynecological exams; pap smears to screen for cervical cancer; breast-cancer screening, and birth control. Unfortunately, in our current health-care system, women are penalized simply because of their anatomy. On average, women of childbearing age pay 68 percent more out-of-pocket for their health care largely because of reproductive-health needs.
- [FDA Issues Warning Letters to Marketers of Topical Ibuprofen Drug Products](https://iconicwoman.com/fda-product-recall/fda-issues-warning-letters-to-marketers-of-topical-ibuprofen-drug-products/) - “These companies have an obligation to the public to demonstrate to the FDA that their products are safe and effective, and they have failed to do so,” said Deborah M. Autor, director of the Office of Compliance at the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
- [Health Care Reform and Woman’s Health Care](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-health/health-care-reform-and-woman’s-health-care/) - The health care reform issues that concern me are how H.R. 3200 or other versions of health care reform plans being floated, would effect women’s access to health care and what, if any, constraints would be placed on the patient healthcare provider relationship. I want details about the continued availability of woman-centered services — women caring for other women. Will government managed health care be able to foster an environment were women who are the subject of care, and were treated as partners and active participants in their personal care.
- [ICAP HPV Vaccine Papers Noted in Russian Media](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/1498/) - I received an email from my ICAP associate, Christina England today. Her message explained a mystery I have been trying to solve for the past week. My site stats have indicated a large number of hits from Russian ISPs and those visitors spending time investigating my article archive. Christina noted the same site visitor anomalies and traced the traffic back to http://www.oodvrs.ru/article/index.php?id_page=47&id_article=940 and found her article about ICAP communications with the German Scientists of RKI concerning the safety of the HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix. This article tracks back to our papers. It is amazing but our message has been have been translated into Russian. The word is getting out there yippee! Congrats to Christina!
- [Crones and Health Care Reform](https://iconicwoman.com/your-bodyyour-self/crones-and-health-care-reform/) - have noted the current health care debate that rages around us, through us and over us. Statistics and hypothesis are being flung at us by seething teams of political combatants, talking heads, and influential, special interest groups who have long since lost any sight of any middle ground and compromise. If the current course goes unchecked, the victors, be they blue or red will rule over the smoldering wreck of our Republic.
- [Embracing My Crone Years](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-health/embracing-my-crone-years/) - I, and others of like mind, choose to call our selves "crones", to reclaim a title that we have lost, and to raise consciousness around issues of aging. I view the appellation of crone not as defined by modern dictionaries, but rather as the fulfillment of female life experiences and wisdom. Our youth-orientated society often marginalizes mature women, leaving many women resentful of their younger sisters. Rather than mourn the passing of our youth as our ‘crone years’ beckon, women should revel in our experiences and acknowledge the confidence and wisdom gifted to us by those years. Acknowledging and valuing the wisdom of our elders, learning from their lives is the true intergenerational gift, and the very essence of our human experience. For countless generations, Native Americans have empowered elder women by recognizing them as persons of wisdom and knowledge. As women who have traversed the mid-life passage, we have the ability to mentor those who follow.
- [HPV Vaccine Implicated in Teen's Paralysis](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/hpv-vaccine-implicated-in-teens-paralysis/) - About a month after being vaccinated against the cervical cancer-causing HPV virus, 13-year-old Jenny Tetlock missed the lowest hurdle in gym class, the first hint of the degenerative muscle disease that, 15 months later, has left the previously healthy teenager nearly completely paralyzed. Did the vaccine, Gardasil, cause her condition? Her father, Philip Tetlock, a psychology professor at UC-Berkeley's Haas School of Business, has embarked on an odyssey to find out whether the vaccine or random coincidence is to blame.
- [Can You Fit More Sleep Into Your Daily Schedule?](https://iconicwoman.com/sleep-loss/can-you-fit-more-sleep-into-your-daily-schedule/) - The less a person slept, the more likely he or she was to develop a cold (there was a graded association between infection rate and average sleep duration). Participants who slept fewer than 7 hours were 2.94 times more likely to develop a cold than those who had 8 hours or more sleep. "When the components of clinical illness (infection and signs or symptoms) were examined separately, sleep efficiency but not sleep duration was associated with signs and symptoms of illness," they wrote, but "neither was associated with infection."
- [WHO Press Release: Safety of Pandemic Vaccines](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/who-press-release-safety-of-pandemic-vaccines/) - WHO is aware of some media reports that have expressed concern about the safety of vaccines for pandemic influenza. The public needs to be reassured that regulatory procedures in place for the licensing of pandemic vaccines, including procedures for expediting regulatory approval, are rigorous and do not compromise safety or quality controls.
- [Attitude Is Everything!](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-health/attitude-is-everything/) - The only thing that is truly yours —That no one can control or take from you —Is your Attitude
- [Health Risks and Benefits 3 Years After Stopping Randomized Treatment With Estrogen and Progestin](https://iconicwoman.com/hrt-side-effects/health-risks-and-benefits-3-years-after-stopping-randomized-treatment-with-estrogen-and-progestin-2/) - Main Outcome: Measures Semi-annual monitoring and outcomes ascertainment continued per trial protocol. The primary end points were coronary heart disease and invasive breast cancer. A global index summarizing the balance of risks and benefits included the 2 primary end points plus stroke, pulmonary embolism, endometrial cancer, colorectal cancer, hip fracture, and death due to other causes.
- [High levels of lead found in lipsticks](https://iconicwoman.com/your-bodyyour-self/high-levels-of-lead-found-in-lipsticks-2/) - Lipstick, like candy, is ingested. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a coalition of public health, environmental and women's groups, said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not set a limit for lead in lipstick.
- [Sunshine Is Good For You ](https://iconicwoman.com/proactive-nutrition/sunshine-is-good-for-you/) - New research reveals an astonishingly high rate of vitamin D deficiency across U.S. children and teens. It's all part of Big Medicine's big plan, of course -- keep the people nutritionally ignorant (and keep 'em coming back for more medicine)
- [ Women's Safety Needs You to Safeguard](https://iconicwoman.com/domestic-violence/womens-safety-needs-you-to-safeguard/) - 200 anti-violence activists stood outside Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's Chicago office, demanding a restoration of funding to domestic and sexual violence services in the state budget. For Chicago Foundation for Women, which supports social justice issues through grant-making and advocacy, the concern is what is going on locally.
- [Society Of Gynecologic Oncologists Issues White Paper On HPV Vaccine’s Impact On Cervical Cancer Prevention](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/society-of-gynecologic-oncologists-issues-white-paper-on-hpv-vaccine’s-impact-on-cervical-cancer-prevention/) - The Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (SGO) has published the first in a series of four papers on a variety of cervical cancer issues and topics that were the focus of its Forum “The Future Strategies for Cervical Cancer Prevention: What Do We Need to Do Now to Prepare,” held last September in Chicago, Illinois.
- [U.S. Government Prepares For Mass Swine Flu Vaccinations](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/us-government-prepares-for-mass-swine-flu-vaccinations/) - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said she is urging school superintendents around the country to spend the summer preparing for the possibility of turning schools into swine flu vaccine clinics this fall. "If you think about vaccinating kids, schools are the logical place,"
- [Trial of Novel H1N1 ‘Swine' Flu candidate vaccine to take place in Adelaide](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/trial-of-novel-h1n1-‘swine-flu-candidate-vaccine-to-take-place-in-adelaide/) - The trial will involve participants receiving two injections of the vaccine, three weeks apart, and will compare a standard with an increased dosage of vaccine. Volunteers will need to submit to blood tests to check that they are generating an appropriate immune response to the virus.
- [H1N1 Trial Researchers Fielding Calls From Thousands of Volunteers](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/h1n1-trial-researchers-fielding-calls-from-thousands-of-volunteers/) - Fears about swine flu have spurred more than 3,000 people so far to volunteer to take part in upcoming clinical trials of a new vaccine. That's already more than the number scientists will need at eight different sites around the U.S. "We don't generally ever get a response like this," Dr. Lisa Jackson, the principal researcher in charge of the clinical trials being readied at Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative, which fielded more than a thousand calls from people in two days.
- [Bird-Flu Vaccine Trial in Poland Kills Homeless People ](https://iconicwoman.com/follow-the-money/bird-flu-vaccine-trial-in-poland-kills-350-homeless-people/) - The medical staff, including three Polish doctors and six nurses from the northern town of Grudziadz, are being investigated over medical trials on which as many as 350 homeless and poor people who died last year. Prosecutors say the medical trial involved an untried vaccine to the highly-contagious H5N1 bird-flu virus.
- [Big Pharma Lobbying Money Influencing American Healthcare Reform](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/big-pharma-lobbying-money-influencing-american-healthcare-reform/) - As President Obama waits for Congress to deliver a heathcare reform bill, pharmaceutical companies are spending millions on lobbyists to thwart any measure that might make drug prices cheaper or even allow the government to negotiate them, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Companies spent 41 percent more this year on lobbying than last, USA Today reported. And companies have laden Congress members with campaign donations, funds to their non-profits, and paid seats on their boards. Taken together, it looks like Congress is bought and paid for. Thus millions of Americans may be entertaining a false hope that Washington will deliver a plan that will lift U.S. healthcare out of its Third World status and into something approaching modernity, like Europe or Canada.
- [$2.1B Swine Flu Vaccination Serum Windfall for Glaxo](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/21b-swine-flu-vaccination-serum-windfall-for-glaxo/) - Analysts note that the pandemic couldn't have come at a better time for Glaxo, one of the world's largest vaccine makers. Generics have been steadily eating into the company's margins, leaving Glaxo looking for new products to make up the shortfall.
- [Clinical Trial Patient Recruitment](https://iconicwoman.com/clinical-trials/clinical-trial-patient-recruitment/) - Clinical trial sponsors are largely unaware of the conflict that arises when dealing with the new, increasingly Internet savvy e-patient who is highly motivated, well educated, self-advocating, and self-informing, says Bonnie Brescia, of BBK Worldwide. “But the Internet is undermining that whole model
- [Forced abortions and mass sterilization needed to save the planet](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-rights/forced-abortions-and-mass-sterilization-needed-to-save-the-planet/) - Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A "Planetary Regime" with the power of life and death over American citizens. The tyrannical fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? Or both? These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology -- informally known as the United States' Science Czar. In a book Holdren co-authored in 1977, the man now firmly in control of science policy in this country wrote that: • Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not; • The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation's drinking water or in food;
- [Merck & Co. Earnings Preview ](https://iconicwoman.com/follow-the-money/merck-co-earnings-preview/) - Possible positive drivers for Merck this quarter might be seen in its Singulair and Januvia sales. Weighing on this quarters earnings will be the loss of patent protection on Fosamex and slower Gardasil sales. Sales of cholesterol drugs Vytorin and Zetia, co-marketed by Schering-Plough (SGP), might also be disappointing especially in a weak economy with cheaper alternatives.
- [U.S. Health Agencies Allocated an Additional $884M for H1N1 flu vaccines](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/us-health-agencies-allocated-an-additional-884m-for-h1n1-flu-vaccines/) - An additional $884 million in funding has been allocated to buy more ingredients an antigen and an adjuvant for swine flu vaccines. This is in addition to the $1 billion The Department of Health and Human Services committed to fighting the Swine Flu in May.
- [H1N1 Vaccine Orders Pour Into Novartis](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/h1n1-vaccine-orders-pour-into-novartis/) - Novartis is one of five big manufacturers preparing swine flu vaccines for the U.S. market, a CDC official says. Dr. Pascale Wortley, the CDC's pandemic-vaccine coordinator, says that by October the U.S. expects to have between 40 million and 160 million doses of vaccine ready for use. That could mean that this fall, U.S. school children may be expected to get a seasonal flu shot as well as a double dose of swine flu vaccine.
- [H1N1 Vaccine Multibillion-Dollar Windfall For Big Pharma](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/h1n1-vaccine-multibillion-dollar-windfall-for-big-pharma/) - Faced with the first World Health Organization (WHO) declared pandemic in four decades, health officials arou world are rushing to order huge stock-piles of the H1N1 (Swine) Fl vaccine in what is shaping up as a multibillion-dollar windfall for the world's biggest manufacturers.
- [A Look Back In Time...1976 Swine Flu Out Break](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/a-look-back-in-time1976-swine-flu-out-break/) - The swine flu case of 1976 forever reduced confidence in public health pronouncements from the government and helped foster cynicism about federal policy makers that continues to this day.
- [Did you know that it's Beautiful Women Month?](https://iconicwoman.com/your-bodyyour-self/did-you-know-that-its-beautiful-women-month/) - When Audrey Hepburn was asked to share her 'beauty tips' she wrote this wonderful poem. Years later, it was read at her funeral.
- [Is There an Upside to the Swine Flu Pandemic?](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/is-there-an-upside-to-the-swine-flu-pandemic/) - San Diego-based Vical, a firm who is developing an H1N1 vaccine under an agreement with the U.S. Navy saw company shares climb 45 cents, to $2.65 on positive clinical trial news this week. Vical researches and develops biopharmaceutical products based on our patented DNA delivery technologies for the prevention and treatment of serious or life-threatening diseases. Vical's stock shot up 20 percent on the news that their swine flu jab sailed through an animal study with positive results. Vical's H1N1 vaccine is now ready for a human study — marching into the clinic in record time.
- [Epidemiologists Can't Determine Why Some People are killed by H1N1](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/epidemiologists-cant-determine-why-some-people-are-killed-by-h1n1/) - Around the world, vaccine manufactures are rushing new swine flu vaccines into clinic trials and booking pre-orders from worried Public Health officials, while epidemiologists are still puzzling out how the new flu works and why many young people without any health complications are often hit the hardest by H1N1.
- [UK Ordering Swine (H1N1) Flu Vaccine  Stockpile](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/uk-ordering-swine-h1n1-flu-vaccine-stockpile/) - Health ministers in the UK say that they aren't waiting to see if the WHO will declare a level six pandemic alert. They're ready to order enough swine flu vaccine for the entire population. Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said that she's already in discussions with manufacturers to ink contracts for delivery--once a new vaccine is ready. Advance pandemic vaccine supply contracts are already in place, but are triggered only after the WHO declares a Phase 6 pandemic.
- [Glaxo wins European contract for Cervarix](https://iconicwoman.com/cervarix/glaxo-wins-european-contract-for-cervarix/) - GlaxoSmithKline has won another European contract for the cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix. The Dutch government selected Cervarix for a new program to vaccinate all girls aged 12 with a catch-up program for girls aged 13 to 16 in the second half of 2009. In the first year some 350,000 Dutch girls will get the jab.
- [Cervarix, GSK's Cervical Cancer Vaccine, Wins Tender For Dutch National Immunisation Programme](https://iconicwoman.com/cervarix/cervarix-gsks-cervical-cancer-vaccine-wins-tender-for-dutch-national-immunisation-programme/) - GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) cervical cancer vaccine, Cervarix, was today confirmed by the Netherlands Vaccine Institute (NVI) as the cervical cancer vaccine for the Dutch National Immunisation Programme (NIP).
- [WHO Appproves HPV Vaccine Cervarix For Poor Nations](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/who-appproves-hpv-vaccine-cervarix-for-poor-nations/) - GlaxoSmithKline's cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix has won a green light from the World Health Organisation (WHO) for use in developing countries, although how the shot will be paid for has yet to be resolved. WHO "prequalification" is necessary for UN agencies and the non-profit GAVI Alliance to purchase the vaccine, and Glaxo said it hoped the move would help speed access to Cervarix globally.
- [A New Way to Subscribe to Iconic Woman](https://iconicwoman.com/take-action/a-new-way-to-subscribe-to-iconic-woman/) - You can now add a calendar reminder to pretty much any popular website calendar or application at http://iconicwoman.wpengine.com/?ical
- [If the Goal Is to Prevent Cervical Cancer...Are School Girls The Right Age Group For The HPV Vaccine?](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/if-the-goal-is-to-prevent-cervical-cancerare-school-girls-the-right-age-group-for-the-hpv-vaccine/) - State mandated Gardasil shots for preteen girls to protect them from the viruses that causes cervical cancer, are targeting the wrong age group. Middle-school girls inoculated with the HPV vaccine will be no older than eighteen when they pass Gardasil's five-year window of proven effectiveness — more than a decade before the typical cancer patient contracts the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV). Merck & Co. has repeatedly refused to respond to requests for its HPV incubation statistics, stating that it is still studying the longevity of Gardasil.
- [Lancet Study Indicates Cervarix HPV Vaccine Effective Against The Five Most Common Cervical Cancer-Causing Viruses](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/lancet-study-indicates-cervarix-hpv-vaccine-effective-against-the-five-most-common-cervical-cancer-causing-viruses/) - A study, published in Tuesday's issue of The Lancet, said that as well as protecting against the two most common virus types, the GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Cervarix vaccine also provides protection against the next three most common cancer-causing virus types. GlaxoSmithKline Plc's is Europe's biggest drug company.
- [Malia and Gardasil Vaccine: What Will Michelle Obama Do?](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/gardasil—what-will-michelle-obama-do-2/) - No matter where you stand within the American, political color-spectrum, Reds and Blues all agree: Michelle Obama is a fiercely protective Momma. To my mind that is a very good thing. However as the Adverse Reactions to the HPV vaccine Garasil continue to mount, I find myself asking WWMOD? What Will Michelle Obama DO?
- [Flu Vaccine Fact Sheet](https://iconicwoman.com/vaccination-policy/flu-vaccine-fact-sheet/) - "By 1853, Parliament began passing laws to make the untested vaccine compulsory throughout the British Empire. Other countries of Europe followed suit. Once the economic implications of compulsory vaccinations were realized, few dared to disagree. Then, as now, the media were controlled by the vaccine manufacturers and the government, who stood to make huge money from the sale of these spurious vaccines."... Tim O'Shea, D.C.
- [Health and Human Services Reports 2009 H1N1Vaccine Development Activities](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/health-and-human-services-reports-2009-h1n1vaccine-development-activities/) - Since 2004, HHS has contracted with manufacturers that currently hold U.S. licenses for flu vaccine as part of the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza. In May 2009, HHS issued new orders on these contracts to produce a bulk supply of vaccine antigen and adjuvant and to produce pilot (also called investigational) lots of a 2009 H1N1 vaccine.
- [Common Chemo Drug Kills Women](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/common-chemo-drug-kills-women/) - The RADAR pharmacovigilance program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has identified another side effect caused by a commonly used chemotherapy drug -- death...
- [ Let's Do More for Young Mothers at the Margin](https://iconicwoman.com/unwanted-pregnancy/lets-do-more-for-young-mothers-at-the-margin/) - Amid recent stories of teenage moms with family support, there's another segment of young moms being overlooked. Jeannette Pai-Espinosa says we also need to invest in female teens born into poverty, violence, abuse and other destructive cycles.
- [Influenza A Virus H1N1 Strain Day by Day Chronology](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain-day-by-day-chronology/) - Thompson says there’s “ongoing discussions” at WHO about other potential names. Ideas abound: Some have suggested talking about the "North American flu" in an effort to continue the geographic tradition without singling out any country. Influenza A Virus H1N1 Strain, Swine Flu Outbreak - Day by Day. Jon Cohen of the Science Insider has compiled this chronology of the H1N1 pandemic. This record will updated regularly as news breaks and past events come to light. This information and all hyperlinks have been provided by the Science Insider. If you use or refer to any if this information in your own research, please cite the Science Insider and include track back links. The Science Insider is a great publication and deserves our respect and support.
- [H1N1 Outbreak Map](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/h1n1-outbreak-map/) - Interactive Google map pinpointing outbreaks of H1N1 swine flu in 2009, together with source attributions, report dates, and current known statuses. This map is updated throughout the day with the latest suspected and confirmed cases of swine flu, as reports come in. Please note that this swine flu map is not owned or updated by The Iconic Woman Project so we can't guarantee the accuracy of the information provided. This Swine flu map was created by L R - a computer scientist working in the UK, together with a team of 18 other people.This Swine flu map was created by L R - a computer scientist working in the UK, together with a team of 18 other people.
- [The U.S. House of Representatives  Approves $8 Billion for Swine Flu (H1N1) Pandemic](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/the-us-house-of-representatives-approves-8-billion-for-swine-flu-pandemic/) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved $7.65 billion in new money to respond to the swine flu pandemic. The money will go toward the purchase of vaccine, antiviral drugs, and other medical needs. Congress also stipulated that the funds be available for surveillance and to help assist international efforts. At least $350 million must be spent on “upgrading State and local capacity.”
- [Quel Surprise! Swine Flu Is Ready](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/quel-surprise-swine-flu-is-ready/) - The World Health Organization last week raised the pandemic level to phase 6, calling for the implementation of "individual, societal, and pharmaceutical measures" as well as implementation of contingency plans for health systems. WHO continues to recommend no restrictions on travel and no border closures, however. Some 100,000 doses of Protein Sciences' PanBlok vaccine, being produced from this week forward, will be targeted for clinical trials and for vaccinations in countries that have granted regulatory clearance. Meanwhile, following the WHO announcement, GlaxoSmithKline says it is going to increase production of its anti-viral Relenza, and continue developing a swine flu vaccine. Separately, Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech says it hopes to put its H1N1 vaccine through its first clinical trial by the end of July.
- [Commercial Manufacturing of H1N1 'Swine Flu' Vaccine Underway](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/commercial-manufacturing-of-h1n1-swine-flu-vaccine-underway/) - Protein Sciences Corporation (PSC) announced that today it commenced manufacturing of a vaccine to protect humans against the H1N1 "swine flu" virus. The Company estimates that it can produce 100,000 doses this week and at least 100,000 doses per week thereafter. The vaccine, called PanBlok(R), is made using PSC's proprietary baculovirus and insect cell manufacturing technology. PSC believes that PanBlok is the first and only vaccine that could be used to protect against the escalating worldwide pandemic, at least for the next few months.
- [WHO Declares World Now At The Start of 2009 Influenza Pandemic](https://iconicwoman.com/world-health-organization/who-declares-world-now-at-the-start-of-2009-influenza-pandemic/) - In a statement to the press by WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan, she stated that based on available evidence, and the expert assessments of leading influenza experts, virologists, and public health officials the scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic have been met to raise the level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 5 to phase 6.
- [Current WHO Phase of Pandemic Alert](https://iconicwoman.com/world-health-organization/current-who-phase-of-pandemic-alert/) - In the 2009 revision of the phase descriptions, WHO has retained the use of a six-phased approach for easy incorporation of new recommendations and approaches into existing national preparedness and response plans. The grouping and description of pandemic phases have been revised to make them easier to understand, more precise, and based upon observable phenomena. Phases 1–3 correlate with preparedness, including capacity development and response planning activities, while Phases 4–6 clearly signal the need for response and mitigation efforts. Furthermore, periods after the first pandemic wave are elaborated to facilitate post pandemic recovery activities.
- [FDA Has Issued Emergency Use Authorizations for Two Antiviral Treatments — Tamiflu (oseltamavir) and Relenza (zanamivir)](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/fda-has-issued-emergency-use-authorizations-for-two-antiviral-treatments-—-tamiflu-oseltamavir-and-relenza-zanamivir/) - If the stockpiling entity decides to retain expired or soon-to-expire Tamiflu and Relenza, it should be maintained and monitored under the product’s labeled storage conditions. These organizations are also urged to contact the FDA’s Emergency Operations Center with information on how much Tamiflu and Relenza in their stockpiles is at or approaching expiration.
- [FDA Produces 2009H1N1 Frequently Asked Quesations](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/fda-produces-2009h1n1-frequently-asked-quesations/) - In response to increased public awareness of Influenza A virus H1N1 strain, the FDA has released a list of 2009 H1N1 Flu Virus and Antivirals Questions and Answers
- [FDA Approves New Influenza Vaccine Production Facility](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/fda-approves-new-influenza-vaccine-production-facility/) - he U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that it has approved a new manufacturing facility used to produce influenza virus vaccines. The facility is approved for seasonal influenza vaccine production and could be used for the production of vaccine against the new 2009 H1N1 influenza strain. As part of its overall pandemic influenza preparedness efforts, the FDA meets with vaccine manufacturers to guide the efficient establishment of influenza vaccine facilities that comply with agency requirements. The agency promptly reviews applications and manufacturing supplements that could increase both the number of manufacturers and the overall supply of vaccine.
- [FDA Warns Web Sites against Marketing Fraudulent H1N1 Flu Virus Claims](https://iconicwoman.com/influenza-a-virus-h1n1-strain/fda-warns-web-sites-against-marketing-fraudulent-h1n1-flu-virus-claims/) - “We are committed to aggressively pursuing those who attempt to take advantage of a public health emergency by promoting and marketing unapproved, uncleared, or unauthorized products,” said Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs. “We have achieved some success and will remain vigilant in our efforts to protect consumers from these fraudulent, potentially dangerous products.”
- [FDA is Finally Prosecuting Off-Lable Marketing of Pharmaceuticals](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/fda-is-finally-prosecuting-off-lable-marketing-of-pharmaceuticals/) - rom approximately November 2001, through April 2005, HOLLOWAY was employed as a Regional Manager at a pharmaceutical company and was responsible for sales in her region of the drug Bextra. Bextra was a Cox-II inhibitor and had been approved in by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in November 2001 for the signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis, adult rheumatoid arthritis, at 10 mgs and primary dysmennorhea at 20 mgs, twice a day as needed. In 2001, the FDA specifically denied the request of the pharmaceutical company to approve it for acute pain, including the pain of surgery. The FDA told the pharmaceutical company that it could not approve it for these other indications because the safety in these other uses had not been established. Specifically, the FDA was concerned about the results of a study in which there was an excess of cardiovascular events in patients who had undergone coronary artery bypass graft surgery and used Bextra.
- [Institute of Medicine Calls for Doctors to Stop Taking Gifts From Drug Makers ](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/institute-of-medicine-calls-for-doctors-to-stop-taking-gifts-from-drug-makers/) - The Institute of Medicine has issued a “scolding,” “stinging,” and “damning” report about financial conflicts of interest in American medicine involving pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies. If enacted, the IOM recommendations will essentially sever the financial ties that bind American medicine--its practitioners, researchers, academic institutions, journals, professional association and so-called "advocacy groups" from industries that have derailed American medicine from its humanitarian public mission.
- [Big Pharma Offers Financial Help For Comprehensive Health Care Reform ](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/big-pharma-offers-financial-help-for-comprehensive-health-care-reform/) - How Much Input to The Administration and Congress' Health Reform Plan Will Big Pharma's $80B Pledge to Health Reform Buy? When I heard about Big Pharma's $80BILLION pledge, that was the first question that came to mind. Apparently wanting to give the Health Care Reform a boost, Drugmakers have agreed to foot the bill for $80 billion in Medicare drugs over the next decade. Some portion of that will benefit Medicare recipients, who, as you know, are on the hook for several thousand dollars' worth of meds annually during the "donut hole" coverage gap. Some other portion will lower the cost of health reform, probably via bigger rebates to Medicare.
- [Living At Capacity, Drawing Upon the Infinite](https://iconicwoman.com/emotional-health/living-at-capacity-drawing-upon-the-infinite/) - So when you’re trying and it’s not quite getting there, stop, step back and see how much more you really are. As an expression of the Infinite, see how deep, profound and powerful you really are. You are not drawing upon your historical abilities, you are drawing upon the Infinite, and that’s a lot.
- [Mr. Letterman, Misogyny Is NEVER, EVER, Funny](https://iconicwoman.com/take-action/mr-letterman-misogyny-is-never-ever-funny/) - I was deeply disappointed and disturbed about Arianna Huffington’s comment that Palin was displaying "manufactured outrage" over Letterman's disgusting sex jokes. Women protect their young, period. If Letterman had used the exact same joke, but featured Michelle Obama and Malia, instead of Palin and Willow. Obama’s outrage would be no more manufactured than Palin’s. CBS would be carrying the has-been, unfunny man out of the Ed Sullivan Theater on his shield, to be interned, after a very short, private service, in the general vicinity of New Jersey's Meadowlands. Women protect their young, period.
- [MMR Vaccination, Living with the Consequences](https://iconicwoman.com/mmr-vaccine/mmr-vaccination-living-with-the-consequences/) - “Living with the Consequences” Nigel Thomas' talk presented at the Thoughtful House UK Conference, March 2006, was so personal, and achingly authentic, I wanted to share it with my Inconvenient Woman readers. Nigel, you see, is the elder brother of two affected children, Michael, thirteen and Terry, twelve. Both younger brothers had the MMR vaccine. (a mixture of three live attenuated viruses, administered via injection for immunization against measles, mumps and rubella) The MMR resulted in complex medical problems including autistic enterocolitis.
- [Loss of Sense of Smell with Intranasal Cold Remedies Containing Zinc](https://iconicwoman.com/fda-failure-to-protect/loss-of-sense-of-smell-with-intranasal-cold-remedies-containing-zinc/) - 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).
- [Thirteen hundred and twenty two families have won vaccine damage cases since 1988](https://iconicwoman.com/vaccination-policy/thirteen-hundred-and-twenty-two-families-have-won-vaccine-damage-cases-since-1988/) - This weekend a news story broke about another win for a family with a three year old little girl, who became brain damaged after the MMR. Julia a USA citizen from Colorado won a substantial financial award in a US Federal Court after her family proved her brain damage was caused after she had the MMR vaccine.
- [Adventures of Merck's HPV Vaccine Lobby  ](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/adventures-of-mercks-hpv-vaccine-lobby/) - The Gardasil issues I researched were the relatively limited trial period, the sketchy trail data; the cost benefit of a drug that was design to prevent a cancer that has been declining in both incidence and mortality for over 40-years. Cervical cancer is easily detected by regular PAP screening and in the early stages, the most treatable cancer. The other aspect of Gardasil roll-up that didn’t pass the smell test was the Merck Marauder School of lobbying today for a more profitable tomorrow. Merck literally carpet-bombed the halls of power and influence with cash to get GARDASIL approved by the FDA (while holding up the Glaxo HPV-vaccine, Cervarix), they got Gardasil endorsed by the CDC and mandated in many states as yet another vaccine necessary to attend school, and managed to get state legislators to pass bills to force insurance companies to pay for the Gardasil shot. As I researched the payouts and pay offs of state, local and federal representatives, I asked when did safety go on sale? Then I found out about Merck paying doctors to go on the stump to endorse Gardasil. Some docs with great speaking skills picked up several hundred thousand dollars in a year. Then there was the scandal about “Medical Journal-Like’ publications written by 'bought and paid for' doctors who dutifully regurgitated the WORD according to Merck.
- [Can Merck’s HPV Vaccine Clinical Trial Process Be Trusted?](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/can-merck’s-hpv-vaccine-clinical-trial-process-be-trusted/) - JayaJan Pharmaceutical Research in India was one of the companies with which Merck had a contract to test Gardasil. Like most of the industry, Merck increasingly outsources its clinical trials to Contract Research Organizations (CROs) in areas of the world where trial subjects are plentiful, operating costs are low, and regulations lax. These CROs are a booming $15 billion industry whose revenues are rising at 15 percent a year. Critics point out that CROs can come with built-in problems. Conflicts of interest can arise when CROs are paid royalties only after a drug is approved rather than being paid a set fee that is independent of how safe or effective the drug turns out to be.
- [Are Mandatory HPV Vaccination Policies Cost Effective?](https://iconicwoman.com/mandatory-hpv-vaccination-policies/are-mandatory-hpv-vaccination-policies-cost-effective/) - By promoting vaccination as a public health imperative mandated by government, rather than as a private choice, Merck has opened the door to the inherently uncomfortable discussion of whether mandatory vaccination is cost effective. Since Merck claims Gardasil protects against the two strains of HPV that cause 70 percent of cancers, women will still need but may be less likely to get Pap smear tests to catch the signs of cervical cancers caused by the other 30 percent of dangerous strains.
- [Allergic Reactions to Gardasil — Additional HPV Vaccine Research Needed](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/allergic-reactions-to-gardasil-—-additional-hpv-vaccine-research-needed/) - The study was conducted in Australia, in 2007 and reported in The British Medical Journal in Dec 2008. Sharon Choo of the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne reported that during 2007 more than 380,000 doses of the vaccine had been administered in schools in Victoria and South Australia under the Australian immunization program. Choo and colleagues noted some components of Merck's treatment -- such as aluminum salts and yeast -- have been associated with allergic reactions. In the British Medical Journal article, published in late 2008, she and her colleges are quoted as saying, "Our clinical recommendation is that females with suspected hypersensitivity to the quadrivalent vaccine should be evaluated before receiving more doses, and any challenges with the same vaccine should be carried out in a supervised setting."
- [FDA Reports"Traumatic Injuries" Among Some Gardasil Vaccine Recipients](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/fda-reportstraumatic-injuries-among-some-gardasil-vaccine-recipients/) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday strengthened warnings on Merck & Co.'s (MRK) Gardasil vaccine about fainting after receiving reports of "traumatic injuries" among some vaccine recipients. In a posting aimed at health-care professionals posted to the agency's Web site, the FDA said all vaccine recipients should remain seated or lying down and be closely observed for 15 minutes following vaccination "to prevent falls and injuries."
- [Existing US Laws Pose The Real Threat of Dangerous, Mandatory Vaccinations](https://iconicwoman.com/vaccination-policy/existing-us-laws-pose-the-real-threat-of-dangerous-mandatory-vaccinations/) - At least three US federal laws should concern all Americans and suggest what may be coming - mandatory vaccinations for hyped, non-existant threats, like H1N1 (Swine Flu). Vaccines and drugs like Tamiflu endanger human health but are hugely profitable to drug company manufacturers.
- [Glaxo Chinese Joint Venture To Produce Vaccines](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/glaxo-chinese-joint-venture-to-produce-vaccines/) - GlaxoSmithKline has aggressively pursued a vaccine-production capability in Asia with a Chinese flu shot joint venture and a new plant in Singapore to make pneumonia vaccines. The company inked an alliance with Shenzhen Neptunus to make flu vaccines for markets in China, Hong Kong and Macau; Glaxo gets a 40 percent initial stake in the JV in exchange for a contribution of cash and assets worth $34 million. Within two years, GSK plans to take a majority interest in the partnership.
- [Vaccination-Induced Brain Damage](https://iconicwoman.com/vaccination-policy/vaccination-induced-brain-damage/) - Dr. Andrew Moulden returns to KRFC FM on June 15 to Discuss Vaccination-Induced Brain Damage...due to popular demand, Canadian physician, Dr. Andrew Moulden BA, MA, MD, PhD , and leader of the Canadian Action Party will rejoin radio talk show host, Leslie Botha, safe vaccine advocate and researcher, Cynthia Janak and Dr. Judi Gerstung on KRFC FM 88.9 , Monday, June 15 from 6 to 7 pm MST on Holy Hormones Honey the Greatest Story Never Told! The show will be audio streamed via the KRFC web site.
- [Researchers Developing New Cervical Cancer Treatments](https://iconicwoman.com/cancer-research/researchers-developing-new-cervical-cancer-treatments/) - The team uses cervical cancer as the model system to test the delivery efficiency of these lipid-entrapped siRNA molecules. They use siRNA to target two essential viral cancer-causing genes, E6 and E7, in cervical cancer cells. Given that the cervical cancer vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, will not decrease the number of new cases for another 15-20 years, this development will be beneficial for current and future sufferers of the disease.
- [IPhone Medical APPs Can Help Caregivers](https://iconicwoman.com/medical-technology/iphone-medical-apps-can-help-caregivers/) - According to a report in Ad there is a huge markets for medicines and medical devices. Fortunately, there's an app for that. In fact, there's been an explosion of iPhone medical apps--some 500 out of the total 35,000. Some of these apps--like a prototype that lets diabetics connect their glucometers to the iPhone for reading by a database that measures, charts, and interprets, helping the user adjust medications and diet--could be a great help to patients.
- [Will BIG Money Equate To BIG Improvement At FDA?](https://iconicwoman.com/fda/will-big-money-equate-to-big-improvement-at-fda/) - Between now and October FDA needs to deliver a draft plan on how to spend a $364-million IT budget to modernizing its IT systems. The GAO expects, "A comprehensive IT strategic plan, including results-oriented goals and performance measures, is vital for guiding and coordinating the agency's numerous ongoing modernization projects and activities."
- [What To Do About Dysfunctional FDA](https://iconicwoman.com/fda/what-to-do-about-dysfunctional-fda/) - From drug safety snafus dating as far back as Vioxx to last year's heparin scandal, from melamine in dog food to salmonella in peanut butter, the FDA has spent beaucoups hours fighting fires. Meanwhile, dispassionate observers such as the Government Accountability Office have advised big-time changes for the agency, and its own Science Board said it was so seriously understaffed and underfunded that it couldn't ensure the safety of food or drugs in the U.S.
- [International Coalition of Advocates for the People](https://iconicwoman.com/vaccination-policy/international-coalition-of-advocates-for-the-people/) - We are presently addressing an issue that involves the health and well being of every young girl and young women in the world. This is in regards to the HPV vaccines. With international collaboration we brought together information about these two vaccines and distributed a detailed paper to the 13 scientists that advise the EU but to other concerned parties such as the Minister of Health for Germany. We are seeing good responses coming from England, Scotland and the Netherlands in regards to efforts being made to suspend these vaccines pending further safety studies, etc. Since the distribution of this paper and a second paper to these scientists and other concerned parties we are now seeing an upsurge in responses from other countries around the world.
- [FDA Ongoing Safety Review Of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Medications](https://iconicwoman.com/attention-deficithyperactivity-disorder-medications/fda-ongoing-safety-review-of-attention-deficithyperactivity-disorder-medications/) - FDA notified healthcare professionals that it is providing its perspective on study data published in the American Journal of Psychiatry on the potential risks of stimulant medications used to treat Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children. This study, funded by the FDA and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), compared the use of stimulant medications in 564 healthy children from across the United States who died suddenly to the use of stimulant medications in 564 children who died as passengers in a motor vehicle accident.The study authors concluded that there may be an association between the use of stimulant medications and sudden death in healthy children. Given the limitations of this study’s methodology, the FDA is unable to conclude that these data affect the overall risk and benefit profile of stimulant medications used to treat ADHD in children.
- [The HPV Vaccine Public Relations Drum Beat Goes On](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/the-hpv-vaccine-public-relations-drum-beat-goes-on/) - It's no mystery why Merck and Glaxo are jostling for ascendancy here. Estimates of the market for HPV- vaccines run to several billions, even if their use was restricted to prevention of cervical cancer. And anyone who doesn't expect ‘HPV vaccine mission creep' hasn't noted Merck’s well documented market penetration Modus operandi.
- [BBC Reports Glaxo's Very Profitable HPV Vaccine Contract With UK](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/bbc-reports-glaxos-very-profitable-hpv-vaccine-contract-with-uk/) - BBC story diagrams the corporate infighting over which multi-national Pharma Giant wins the very profitable HPV vaccine contract with the UK public health department. Glaxo needed a win big time. Merck has effectively shut them out of the lucrative American market, (the paper work has the FDA logo, but in the 'Mercky' world of vaccine politics, Merck lobbyists know how to deliver…a politician, regulator, or an agency, Merck Money moves opinion and decisions.) Merck won't stop fighting to get a piece of the UK school girl market. Expect continuous stream of Merck public relations rhetoric throughout the balance of 2008 and up to the International Human Papilloma Virus Conference, held in Sweden next June. Both Merck and Glaxo are scheduled to deliver papers. In the Merck world view, "Its not over, until it is over."
- [FDA 2010 Budget Hiked To $3.2 Billion](https://iconicwoman.com/fda/fda-2010-budget-hiked-to-32-billion/) - the Obama administration wants to hike the FDA's budget by 19 percent to $3.2 billion for fiscal 2010. That's a whopping increase: In dollar terms, it amounts to about half a billion, Reuters reports. A good billion or so of the total comes from industry via user fees.
- [Hormone Replacement Therapy Raises Risk of Lung Cancer Death](https://iconicwoman.com/hrt-side-effects/hormone-replacement-therapy-raises-risk-of-lung-cancer-death/) - The hormone replacement therapy taken by millions of women to relieve hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause may raise the risk of dying from lung cancer. New findings from the landmark Women’s Health Initiative study show that women with non-small cell lung cancer are 59% more likely to die from the disease if they take combined estrogen and progestin.
- [Scottish Government Urged To Review HPV-Vaccine Program](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/scottish-government-urged-to-review-hpv-vaccine-program/) - THE Scottish Government has been urged to review its cervical cancer vaccination programme and follow the lead of Germany, which ordered experts to show hard evidence the jab is effective and safe in the long-term. The International Coalition of Advocates for the People (ICAP) – a group raising concerns of the safety and efficacy of Cervarix and its rival, Gardasil, to health ministers and researchers worldwide – want a thorough investigation into the vaccine.
- [Volunteer Researchers Raise Questions about HPV Vaccine Efficacy ](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/volunteer-researchers-raise-questions-about-hpv-vaccine-efficacy/) - International Coalition of Advocates for the People’s first educational advocacy effort has been a success. Seven women who became international advocates wrote a paper about HPV vaccines to educate all necessary parties in Europe. This paper has been distributed throughout Europe and to select individuals in the United States. Presently, thirteen German scientists from the Robert Koch Institute are questioning the effectiveness of these vaccines. They are also asking for evidence now from the Standing Committee based on the scientists’ views.
- [GlaxoSmithKline envisions new research ties to biotechs](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/glaxosmithkline-envisions-new-research-ties-to-biotechs/) - "Startups could co-locate with us and create a new type of foundation for discovery," Witty told the International Association of Science Parks conference in Raleigh, home to one of the country's largest research centers. And he reiterated GSK's interest in small acquisitions and partnerships to provide a fresh jolt of new ideas for a company in bad need of good drug development programs. Witty also underscored that the presence of large academic institutions staffed with top researchers won't be enough to woo companies like GSK in the future. Even more important, he says, is a pro-business attitude "to make the interface between industry and academia porous."
- [Klachten over HPV-inenting Schotland](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/klachten-over-hpv-inenting-schotland/) - Netherlands-based advocates, Janny Stokvis and Annelies Witlam have worked tirelessly to distribute the HPV-vaccine research paper produced by International Coalition of Advocates For The People and submitted to the Robert Koch Institute for review. They have supported the HPV-vaccine education process in the Netherlands, the UK, EU Canada and America and are founding members of the International Coalition of Advocates For The People (ICAP). I am proud to be counted amongst their professional associates.
- [HPV-Vaccine UK Adverse Reaction Reports  ](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/hpv-vaccine-uk-adverse-reaction-reports/) - All any of us, who have raised questions about the rapid deployment of the HPV vaccines, Gadasil and Cervarix, have ever wanted, is an objective review of the clinic trial information by scientist not related to Big Pharma. In Germany, the Robert Koch Institute is in that process right now. The question American, Canadian, and other EU citizens are asking is, “Why are our own governmental agencies and regulators so against a similar objective review of the clinic trial information and independent medical review of the thousands of reported HPV-vaccine adverse effect cases? Is the no “Robert Koch Institute-like” organization that can ask the questions for our citizens?"
- [More Bad News For Big Pharma HPV Efficacy In Question](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/more-bad-news-for-big-pharma-hpv-efficacy-in-question/) - "What concerns us is that the two manufacturers of the vaccine aren’t always using facts. They claim that a lot of high-risk strains of cancer-causing virus are protected against but equally there are others that are not. If protection is not more than 20 per cent then that is an awful lot of money to be spending, particularly as the vaccines have quite serious side-effects.” — Professor Martina Doren, of the Charitie Hospital in Berlin:
- [Concerns Mounting About Effectiveness and Safety of HPV-Vaccines](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/concerns-mounting-about-effectiveness-and-safety-of-hpv-vaccines/) - All around the world concerns are mounting about the effectiveness and the safety of the HPV vaccines. Whilst many of our Governments refuse to listen to public concern and ignore the ever increasing numbers of children who have had adverse reactions to the Gardasil and Cervarix vaccines, in Germany their concerns are at last being looked at and examined carefully. The Robert Koch Institute in Germany which makes recommendations on the public funding of vaccines, is reviewing its vaccination programme after 13 experts called for a reassessment of its HPV vaccination programme and an end to "misleading information" about the effectiveness of the HPV-vaccine.
- [EU Public Health Officials Starting To Question HPV Vaccine Safety](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/eu-public-health-officials-starting-to-question-hpv-vaccine-safety/) - LEADING scientists and doctors have raised fresh concerns about the safety of a cervical cancer vaccine. They have accused the manufacturers of Cervarix and another jab, Gardasil, of making misleading claims. More than 1,300 British girls have reported adverse reactions to Cervarix, ranging from paralysis to convulsions and sight problems.
- [Girls Offered IPODS and Make Overs to Get HPV Vaccine](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/girls-offered-ipods-and-make-overs-to-get-hpv-vaccine/) - Free beauty treatments and free IPODS and other goodies in prize draws are being offered to young girls if they have the HPV vaccines. However, is it morally correct to coerce youngsters into conforming? At present the HPV vaccination programme is being questioned by many Governments as to it’s safety and some countries have even withdrawn from the programme altogether.
- [British Medical Jourmal Says Doctors Are Not Scientists](https://iconicwoman.com/your-bodyyour-self/british-medical-jourmal-says-doctors-are-not-scientists/) - As medical students Doctors were filled full with information on biochemistry, anatomy, physiology, and other sciences, but information does not a scientist make—otherwise, you could become a scientist by watching the Discovery channel. A scientist is somebody who constantly questions, generates falsifiable hypotheses, and collects data from well designed experiments. Most doctors follow familiar patterns and rules, often improvising around those rules. In their methods of working they are more like jazz musicians than scientists.
- [Merck Merger Mints Money](https://iconicwoman.com/merck-watch/merck-merger-mints-money/) - Merck could increase the size of the dividend payment it makes to shareholders every quarter following its $41.1 billion purchase of rival Schering-Plough, although the company will not commit to an increase now. Chief Financial Officer Peter Kellogg told analysts and investors Thursday that Merck "will be generating a lot of cash" and that the company does see the need to "ultimately make sure shareholders benefit from that." He also said, "It's too early to declare how we will do that."
- [Can Dr. Andrew Moulden Change CDC Childhood Immunization Policy?](https://iconicwoman.com/vaccination-policy/can-dr-andrew-moulden-change-cdc-childhood-immunization-policy/) - A Canadian doctor, Dr. Andrew Moulden says he conclusively proved seven years ago that vaccines cause micro-vascular strokes. Dr Moulden has a 21 year record of award-winning medical study and practice starting at Nipissing University, but he has been unable to get the attention of the College of Physicians or politicians to investigate his findings, which have been corroborated by other doctors.
- [Dutch Heath Professionals Protest Mandatory HPV-Vaccination](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/dutch-heath-professionals-protest-mandatory-hpv-vaccination/) - The medical staff refused to take part because they did not have enough experience with the vaccine and were concerned about possible side effects, a spokesman for youth health services in Brabant told the paper. Doctors' organization LAD refused to say how many were involved. But a spokesman said it is the first time doctors have registered a formal refusal to vaccinate.
- [Cancer Death Rate Steadily Declining](https://iconicwoman.com/cancer-research/cancer-death-rate-steadily-declining/) - Cancer death rates are falling steadily, according to the American Cancer Society's annual cancer statistics report, Cancer Facts & Figures 2009, and its companion article "Cancer Statistics, 2009," published in the Society's CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. The drop is driven in large part by better prevention, increased use of early detection practices, and improved treatments for cancer.
- [Do vaccines cause brain damage?](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/do-vaccines-cause-brain-damage/) - For the past seven months, the popular talk show has focused on the dangers of Gardasil, Childhood Immunizations and the Anthrax vaccine that has been linked to the Gulf War syndrome. The hosts have interviewed parents, and medical experts as they strive to share information about the dangerous and toxic adjuvants that are used in the vaccine serums as preservatives and additives. After months of research and combing FDA, CDC and myriads of pharmaceutical documents, Janak and Botha discussed the link between vaccines with toxic compounds, and neurological damage.
- [Are the Gardasil Girls Guinea Pigs?](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/are-the-gardasil-girls-guinea-pigs/) - According to the Canadian Women's Health Network, most women who don't smoke, eat well and have a healthy immune system will clear the virus without any treatment. And the Public Health Agency of Canada has said that more than 80 per cent of HPV infections acquired at an early age were gone within a year and a half. Even better, after a woman has fought off a strain, she has almost no chance of contracting it again.
- [Roswell Park Cancer Institute Justifies Expanding Gardasil to Boys](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/roswell-park-cancer-institute-justifies-expanding-gardasil-to-boys/) - A recent press release from Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) in Buffalo, New York caught my attention. I have been following the HPV-vaccine debate since 2005. I’ve read thousands of press releases, research papers, articles and websites. I’ve observed what I consider an interesting information interpretation phenomenon. Two or three research bodies can look at the same set of data and come to several, sometimes diametrically opposed conclusions. I think it is important to read everything, even the material I don’t agree with — actually, especially the information I don’t agree with. Insight is always helpful, even if I disagree with the conclusion.
- [Birth Control, From Taboo Subject to Medical Commodity ](https://iconicwoman.com/birth-control/birth-control-from-taboo-subject-to-medical-commodity/) - Forty-five years ago birth control activist were jailed for distributing birth control information and products on college campuses. Today, breezy, informative, well-written articles about birth control options are considered normal fare in college newspapers.
- [Reproductive Rights as a Civil Right](https://iconicwoman.com/birth-control/reproductive-rights-as-a-civil-right/) - Then came the great liberator, THE PILL! Women could have a career AND sex and not have to worry about an unplanned pregnancy. This was a big damn deal in the fight for equal pay. Companies used the ‘impeding-mommy’ excuse to deny women promotions. After all, women were only in the workforce ‘temporally’, until like good girls, we got pregnant and stayed home to fulfill our real job— wife and mother.That sounds insane more than 30-years later, but in the 60s and 70s the newspaper want ads were divided into two sections, MEN and WOMEN.
- [University of Alabama Developing New HPV-Vaccine](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/university-of-alabama-developing-new-hpv-vaccine/) - Richard B.S. Roden, a researcher at Johns Hopkins who was trained at the National Cancer Institute, has spent a decade develop­ing the new HPV-vaccine. He said it will protect against a wider range of HPV types than Gar­dasil and can be produced for perhaps less than $1 a dose.
- [Pharma, Social Media and Public Persuasion](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/pharma-social-media-and-public-persuasion/) - Perhaps the most impressive site to date is Gardasil's "Take a step against cervical cancer" profile on Facebook—with more than 100,000 fans. (For comparison, American Idol's Facebook page has about 430,000 fans.) But the big difference between the two is that "Take a step" is a one-way communicator: no comments allowed.
- [What Causes Cervical Cancer?](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/what-causes-cervical-cancer/) - HPV is one causal factor in the development of cervical cancer. Medical researchers note other factors contribute to cervical cancer, such as: Poverty— limited or no access to medical services; tobacco use; eating habits; weakened immune system; hormonal medications; exposure to Diethylstilberstrol (DES); Douching; and Chemical exposure in work environment.
- [How Independent Is The FDA](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/how-independent-is-the-fda/) - The Congress has repeatedly looked at how it wants to fund the FDA. So once, twice, and again, last year, the Congress decided that the best way to fund the FDA was to look to the pharmaceutical industry to provide a portion of the funds to help support review. That's the decision of the Congress. The pharmaceutical industry has contributed the funds to support the review, because we think that has been an effective approach. We also think that it's been a way of helping to advance science.
- [Pharmaceutical Companies Seek Clarity On Evidence Needed For FDA](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/990/) - DA has stated clearly that the best way to show correlation is by developing drugs in parallel with biomarker diagnostics through prospective studies. However, genetic associations with response to a drug often emerge after the drug is already in use.
- [ 2009 Clinical Trials Predictions and Resolutions](https://iconicwoman.com/biotech-industry/2009-clinical-trials-predictions-and-resolutions/) - The nation’s ongoing economic turmoil is also threatening the pharmaceutical industry with “unfamiliar challenges,” says Ronald Waife, president of Needham, Mass.-based clinical research consultancy Waife & Associates. Long discovery and product cycles have traditionally shielded pharmaceutical companies from the realities of layoffs and facility shutdowns that they’re now being forced to confront.
- [FDA Recall of Class I SmartMonitor 2 Infant Apnea Monitor ](https://iconicwoman.com/fda-product-recall/fda-recall-of-class-i-smartmonitor-2-infant-apnea-monitor/) - Respironics and FDA notified healthcare professionals of a Class I recall of SmartMonitor 2 Infant Apnea Monitor, Models 4002 and 4003, used for the continuous monitoring of respiration and heart rate of infant patients in the home or in the hospital.
- [](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/980/) - FDA Consumer Update addressing recent, questions about the safety of Gardasil, a HPV-vaccine that prevents infection with types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that cause most cases of cervical cancer and genital warts, and some vulvar and vaginal cancers.
- [Politics, Profits and Pharma](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/politics-profits-and-pharma/) - The following is a transcript from the Public Television series, FRONTLINE. The program, Politics, Profits and Pharma was aired on November 13, 2003. I've kept in my files for years as a source reference document. This past week, while working on a paper with my writing partner, Leslie C. Botha, and I opened my FRONTLINE
- [FDA Approves HPV-Vaccine Gardasil](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/fda-approves-hpv-vaccine-gardasil/) - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the approval of Gardasil, the first vaccine developed to prevent cervical cancer, precancerous genital lesions and genital warts due to human papillomavirus (HPV) types 6, 11, 16 and 18. The vaccine is approved for use in females 9-26 years of age. Gardasil was evaluated and approved in six months under FDA's priority review process--a process for products with potential to provide significant health benefits.
- [Inside a Contract Research Organization (CRO)](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/inside-a-contract-research-organization-cro/) - The Health Decisions central system integrates all the components in a clinical study: data collection, adaptive randomization, site payments, administrative functions, and a reporting suite. “We’ve been using dedicated study websites for reporting and coordinating for 7-10 years,” says Rosenberg. “I assumed everyone was doing this. But almost nobody else does that. From a technology standpoint, this is a no brainer. It’s the quickest, easiest, most efficient way to distribute information.”
- [The Human Injury of Lost Objectivity: An Insider’s Look into the Corruption of Clinical Trials](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/the-human-injury-of-lost-objectivity-an-insider’s-look-into-the-corruption-of-clinical-trials/) - Pharmaceutical companies manipulate the trials they sponsor because of their power to control others involved in the process largely absent of regulation. This is a matter of requiring authenticity and, more importantly, assuring the safety of the public health.
- [HPV-Vaccine, How We Got Here](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/hpv-vaccine-how-we-got-here/) - markers before the trial. The study was selected for women who showed some sort of robust natural immunity that kept them from expressing the HPV markers. 859 were excluded from the final data analysis for technical reasons and the vast majority were found to be infected with HPV-16 before getting the vaccine.
- [The Atrophy Of Objectivity](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/the-atrophy-of-objectivity/) - Decades ago, clinical trials were conducted at academic settings that focused on the acquisition of knowledge and the completely objective discoveries of drugs and devices to benefit mankind. Then, in 1980, the Bayh-Dole Act, Public Law 96-517,was created, which allowed for such places with their researchers to profit off of their discoveries that were performed for pharmaceutical companies and others in the past.
- [TX Governor accused of conflict of interest in vaccination order](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/tx-governor-accused-of-conflict-of-interest-in-vaccination-order/) - Texas Governor Rick Perry's ties to the manufacturer of an HPV vaccine are being scrutinized in the wake of his order that all sixth-grade girls in the Lone Star State receive the medication against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
- [National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)](https://iconicwoman.com/national-vaccine-injury-compensation-program/national-vaccine-injury-compensation-program-vicp/) - All about National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program -Parents need to understand the rules of engagement concerning Federal, State or Local mandated vaccine programs. For a full explanation of rights and responsibilities in case your child's vaccination goes terribly wrong, go to: http://www.hrsa.gov/Vaccinecompensation/
- [Merck Has Demonstrated A Corporate Culture Of Deception](https://iconicwoman.com/merck-watch/merck-has-demonstrated-a-corporate-culture-of-deception/) - Merck published fake journal The following is an excerpted article that was originally published in TheScientist.com. To read the full article, with citations, click on the hyper link below. The Inconvenient Woman thought it was very important to illustrate the prevasive corporate culture of deception that has taken over the once respected Pharma Giant, Merck.
- [Major step in cancer battle](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/major-step-in-cancer-battle/) - Vaccine for cervical cancer shows dramatic results An international clinical trial directed by Diane Harper of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) and Dartmouth Medical School has shown promising results for a vaccine against the most common causes of cervical cancer. Diane Harper Writing in the lead article of the Nov.
- [Cliff Notes of Cervical Cancer Research](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/cliff-notes-of-cervical-cancer-research/) - What Exactly Is Cervical Cancer? Cancer begins in cells, the building blocks of tissue which make up the organs. Normally, cells grow and divide to form new cells as the body needs them. When cells grow old, they die and are replaced with new cells. The problem comes in when abnormal cells "appear" and start
- [HPV Vaccine Researcher Blasts Mandatory Marketing](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/hpv-vaccine-researcher-blasts-mandatory-marketing/) - Dr. Harper, a scientist, physician, professor and the director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire, said: "It is silly to mandate vaccination of 11- to 12-year-old girls There also is not enough evidence gathered on side effects to know that safety is not an issue." All of her trials have been with subjects ages 15 to 25. "This vaccine has not been tested in little girls for efficacy. At 11, these girls don't get cervical cancer - they won't know for 25 years if they will get cervical cancer."
- [Merck's Post-Vioxx comeback](https://iconicwoman.com/merck-watch/mercks-post-vioxx-comeback/) - Merck instantly became the poster child for Big Pharma's woes. The stock plunged 40 percent within a couple weeks. The company then suffered through a volatile 2005 -- the year that Richard Clark succeeded Raymond Gilmartin as chief executive - before beginning its comeback last year.
- [Gardasil, Future Generations Put At Risk ](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/gardasil-future-generations-put-at-risk/) - In Pursuit of Profit Gardasil is the first virus-like particle (VLP) based vaccine ever approved Researching Merck’s Gardasil HPV vaccine since 2005, I have read through mountains of data, reviewed medical trial results, FDA and CDC press releases, Adverse Reaction Reports, Merck’s Annual Stockholder’s report, and thousands of articles by both Big Phama’s Evangelists and
- [Gardasil — When Mercketing Pre-empts Medicine](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/gardasil-when-merketing-pre-empts-medicine/) - It is not hard to hear about Gardasil... "In television advertisements, a cast of hip people in their 20s — artists, writers and professionals — describe why they got the shots, in the language of liberation, such as, “I chose to get vaccinated because my dreams don’t include cervical cancer.” The advertisements direct viewers to
- [GARDASIL®  Alert: HPV Vaccine Lawsuits Are in Process](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/gardasil®-alert-hpv-vaccine-lawsuits-are-in-process/) - Litigation process may protect our daughters from being ‘One-More’ victim to corporate greed and bad medical policy. On June 8, 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Gardasil, the first vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer in girls and women. Gardasil, manufactured by Merck & Co., is for use in girls ages
- [Product Recall: Mom's Check The Kid's Face Paints](https://iconicwoman.com/fda-product-recall/product-recall-moms-check-the-kids-face-paints/) - Fun Express, Inc. recalls children’s face paint associated with adverse events. The Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers to stop using certain cosmetic “Face Paint” items labeled as distributed by Oriental Trading Co., Omaha, Neb., due to adverse event reports of skin reactions in children. These items were distributed nationwide.
- [Beat Cancer—Naturally](https://iconicwoman.com/your-bodyyour-self/beat-cancer—naturally/) - Beat Cancer Naturally, no matter how the disease manifests in the body, you can find integrative treatments and preventive measures that work.
- [FDA Thwarts Merck’s Expanded Use of Gardasil, For Now](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/fda-thwarts-merck’s-expanded-use-of-gardasil-for-now/) - The FDA rejected Merck’s request to approve its HPV vaccine, Gardasil for women between ages 27 and 45, citing “issues that preclude approval within the expected review timeframe,” Merck offered no additional specific explanation in their prepared statement. Merck indicated that it is in ongoing discussions with FDA officials about to the application and expects to officially respond to the agency within the next 30-days. The HPV- vaccine, Gardasil, was approved June 8, 2006 for girls and women between 9 and 26 years old to prevent human papillomarivus related cervical cancer.
- [Link Discovered Between Hot Flashes And Lower Bone Density In Women](https://iconicwoman.com/menopause/link-discovered-between-hot-flashes-and-lower-bone-density-in-women/) - From Menopause News and Views FINDINGS: UCLA researchers and colleagues analyzed data for 2,213 women between the ages of 42 and 52 who participated in the bone sub-study of the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation to determine whether women with vasomotor symptoms (VMS) - which include hot flashes and night sweats - had
- [Viet Nam Health Ministry Reviews Cervical Cancer Vaccine](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/viet-nam-health-ministry-reviews-cervical-cancer-vaccine/) - The Health Ministry has launched an investigation into the procedures used to approve two cervical cancer vaccines that entered the market this year. The investigation reviews the clinical trials and regulatory approvals made in Viet Nam for the two drugs Gardasil and Cervarix. According to Prof. Nguyen Ba Duc, head of the Cancer Treatment and Prevention Institute in Ha Noi’s K Hospital, the vaccines supposedly protect women for life. But the vaccines have been in circulation for only three years, and the claims had not been conclusively proven, he said
- [Backlash Against Merck Mandatory Vaccine Ploy Continues](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/backlash-against-merck-mandatory-vaccine-ploy-continues/) - The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics weighs in on mandatory Gardasil shots A trio of academics have joined the 'Pro/Con' debate over the policy of requiring girls to be vaccinated with Merck’s Gardasil. In a recent issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Gail Javitt of Johns Hopkins’s Berman Institute of Bioethics,
- [ GlaxoSmithKline responds to FDA on Cervarix](https://iconicwoman.com/cervarix/glaxosmithkline-responds-to-fda-on-cervarix/) - GSK has submitted its response to questions raised by the FDA in their Complete Response Letter, received in December, 2007. In addition, given that final data from GSK’s Phase III pivotal efficacy study, HPV-008, are expected to be available later this year, GSK has decided to augment its application for approval with these data to ensure they are included in the U.S. label. GSK anticipates submitting these data in the first half of 2009. The timing depends on reaching a certain number of cases in order to conduct the final analysis. An FDA action on the application is expected to take up to six months following this submission. Interim data from this study were filed in the original application for the vaccine in March, 2007. The company does not expect that new clinical studies will be required for approval.
- [Merck Wins Expanded Uses for Gardasil®](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/merck-wins-expanded-uses-for-gardasil®/) - 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 vulvar cancer caused by Human
- [Merck's Lybrand Plays It Cool In Midst Of Hot Controversy](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/mercks-lybrand-plays-it-cool-in-midst-of-hot-controversy/) - Marketing for Gardasil began in earnest last November and almost immediately ran into controversy over its lobbying campaign. Merck had sought to persuade state governments to make the vaccine mandatory for schoolgirls. But it was revealed in February that the company had given Texas Gov. Rick Perry $6,000 in campaign contributions prior to Perry ordering that Texas girls be vaccinated. Later that month, Merck said it would cease all lobbying activity. "It was distracting from the conversation about women's health and cervical cancer," said a rep at Whitehouse Station, N.J.-based Merck.
- [New HPV Numbers Don't Look Good For Gardasil](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/new-hpv-numbers-dont-look-good-for-gardasil/) - Merck's Stat-Spinners looking for a way around two key findings from a new study in JAMA that puts Merck on the defensive. The drug maker has already alienated the public and some federal agencies by pushing politicians to create state mandates for its Gardasil vaccine for pre-teen and teenage girls, even though the disease isn’t communicable by casual contact. Chastened by a furious backlash, Merck subsequently backed off.
- [ ‘One Less’ Reason To Talk About Pap Test](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/‘one-less’-reason-to-talk-about-pap-test/) - Merck's "One Less" Marketing team is like a well oiled machine. It stays on message no mater what. A key message Merck likes to repete when touting Gardasil is that the vaccine prevents the two strains of HPV that account for about 70 percent of cervical cancers. That’s not the same as saying Gardasil is proven to prevent 70 percent of cervical cancer cases, it just sounds like that in the commercial. Stand in front of the mirror, look sincerly concerned and say it fast...See what I mean, Gosh I'm almost convinced thatGardasil is proven to prevent 70 percent of cervical cancer case...Not!
- [Merck is Holding The Gardasil Hammer](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/merck-is-holding-the-gardasil-hammer/) - According to Merck, their HPV vaccine, Gardasil has proved 90% effective in preventing the uncomfortable affliction known as genital warts in men. They plan to present the results of a recent study at a European medical conference later today. It is their hope that the results of this study will support their case with the FDA. They have requested approval to market Gardasil to boys as a way to prevent genital warts, but as of yet the FDA has not moved on a reply.
- [2008 Was Not a Good Year for Merck](https://iconicwoman.com/merck-watch/2008-was-not-a-good-year-for-merck/) - The forth quarter earning reports, the report card for publicly held companies, held no good news for Merck or its stockholders. Merck released its not overly optimistic guidance for 2009 that forecasted earnings and revenue below that expected by Wall Street analysts. It is never a good to disappoint ‘the street.’ Merck named lower sales of its Vytorin and Zetia cholesterol pills, sold as part of a joint venture with Schering-Plough as one reason for declining profit.
- [Merck Faces Another Tough Year](https://iconicwoman.com/merck-watch/merck-faces-another-tough-year/) - Merck's total sales will drop 1% to $23.9 billion next year, according to analyst John Boris at Citigroup. He's bullish because the stock is so cheap, but in a recent report, he laid out the challenge Merck will face in 2009: Sales of top-seller Singulair, for allergies and asthma, will barely grow because of safety worries, and generics maker Teva Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: TEVA - news - people ) could launch a copycat ahead of schedule. The company's vaccines division has stumbled due to manufacturing and marketing issues that executives need to fix--fast.
- [Use of GARDASIL in Women Ages 27 through 45](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/use-of-gardasil-in-women-ages-27-through-45/) - Merck & Co., Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a second complete response letter regarding the supplemental biologics license application (sBLA) for the use of GARDASIL® [Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent (Types 6, 11, 16, 18) Vaccine, Recombinant] in women ages 27 though 45. The agency has completed its review of the response that Merck provided in July 2008 and has recommended that Merck submit additional data when the 48 month study has been completed. The initial sBLA included data collected through an average of 24 months from enrollment into the study, which is when the number of pre-specified endpoints had been met. Following a review of the final results of the study, Merck anticipates providing a response to the agency in the fourth quarter of 2009. The letter does not affect current indications for GARDASIL in females ages 9 through 26 nor does the letter relate to the sBLA that was submitted in December 2008 for the use of GARDASIL in males.
- [Can Glaxo learn from Merck](https://iconicwoman.com/cervarix/can-glaxo-learn-from-merck/) - As Glaxo is forced to wait for FDA’s approval for its own HPV vaccine, Cervarix, will the company use its time on the sidelines to absorb lessons learned from Merck’s missteps? There is a building backlash against Merck’s ‘BIG-FOOT’, political lobbing strategy that aggressively pushes politicians to mandate its vaccine. Merck has pushed through from one political firestorm to the next. An increasing resentful public is feeling like Atlanta to Merck’s Sherman-like march to market share.
- [Glaxo Gearing Up To Compete with Merck's Gardasil In US Market](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/glaxo-gearing-up-to-compete-with-mercks-gardasil-in-us-market/) - The FDA’s approval for the ‘other’ HPV-vaccine, Cervarix is still delayed. GlaxoSmithKline, the world's second-largest drugmaker, requested a 'priority' review, potentially prompting an approval decision and sale of the Cervarix vaccine by the end of 2007, said James Tursi, Glaxo's director of medical affairs for cervical cancer vaccines, at a medical meeting in San Diego.
- [ Glaxo’s  Cervarix  Not Feeling the FDA Love ](https://iconicwoman.com/cervarix/glaxo’s-cervarix-not-feeling-the-fda-love/) - Glaxo, still struggling to overcome the Avandia diabetes pill controversy and subsequent lost revenue, has been dealt another blow by the FDA. The agency has issued a “complete response letter” to Glaxo for its Cervarix vaccine. It is unclear whether the FDA will require additional clinical trials for Cervarix. The unexpected delay in approval could last as little as six-months or as long as two-years.
- [Merck To Text Teens About Gardasil Reminders?](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/merck-to-text-teens-about-gardasil-reminders/) - Merck’s ‘3 Is Key’ Campaign Goes Viral, urging docs to distribute a new brochure after administering the HPV vaccine in hopes teens and women will return for their second and third shots. However, the brochure, which is part of Merck’s ‘3 Is Key’ campaign, is worded in such a way that the drugmaker may wind up collecting personal info from teens that could be used for market research.
- [Glaxo Claims Cervarix More Effective Than Gardasil](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/glaxo-claims-cervarix-more-effective-than-gardasil/) - GlaxoSmithKline announced results of head-to-head trial data on its HPV vaccine. The company trumpeted the comparative study, saying that its Cervarix vaccine prompted a much stronger immune-system response than Merck's Gardasil.
- [GlaxoSmithKline Cervarix Press Release](https://iconicwoman.com/cervarix/glaxosmithkline-cervarix-press-release/) - To date, GlaxoSmithKline's HPV-vaccine, Cervarix has been approved in 95 countries around the world, including the 27 member states of the European Union (EU), Australia, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico and Taiwan. Licensing applications have been submitted in more than 20 additional countries including Japan and the United States. GSK also submitted the vaccine to the World Health Organization (WHO) for prequalification in September 2007.
- [German and Scottish Health Officials Review HPV Vaccine Programs](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/german-and-scottish-health-officials-review-hpv-vaccine-programs/) - Scottish Conservative health spokeswoman Mary Scanlon said: "Given this new research, it is now incumbent on the Scottish Government and the chief medical officer to review the vaccination program to ensure that it lives up to the expectations of preventing cervical cancer."
- [Financial Analysts Judge Merck and Glaxo Sales Growth](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/financial-analysts-judge-merck-and-glaxo-sales-growth/) - JPMorgan pharma analyst Chris Schott wrote in a research note to clients Friday, “The larger issue for cervical cancer vaccines in the US is the relative stagnation of the US market. We forecast a decline in US vaccinations (and thus US market sales) in 2009 relative to 2008, with 2010 sales returning to roughly 2008 levels.”
- [M-Words: Merck, Money, Market Share](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/m-words-merck-money-market-share/) - Touting competing studies, Merck and Glaxo use 25th International Papillomavirus Conference as venue to fight for increased sales for their HPV-vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix. Glaxo released a new Cervarix vs. Gardasil head-to-head study, saying Cervarix prompted a stronger immune response. Merck has been promoting its own ‘new’ study data, which claims Gardasil offers protection from certain HPV strains for up to 9.5 years. Can trial data make a big difference in revenues for either company? Merck is facing declining sales and Glaxo has yet to gain FDA approval and is dealing with efficacy issues in the U.K.
- [HPV Screening for Cervical Cancer in Rural India saves women’s lives ](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/hpv-screening-for-cervical-cancer-in-rural-india-saves-women’s-lives/) - Cervical cancer is a major global public health problem affecting socioeconomically deprived populations. It is the most common cancer among women in low-resource countries where 85% of the global cervical cancer burden of approximately 493 000 cases and 273 000 deaths are found annually. Recognising the need for a more practical and effective approach to screening and early detection of cervical cancer in developing countries, Dr Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, Head of the Screening Group at IARC, with Dr Bhagwan Nene and colleagues from the Nargis Dutt Memorial Cancer Hospital (NDMCH), Barshi, India and Dr Surendra Shastri and colleagues from the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), Mumbai, India undertook a large randomised controlled trial in the remote district of Osmanabad in Maharashtra State, India.
- [Merck Press Release](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/merck-press-release/) - Merck Press release: Studies of GARDASIL, Merck's Cervical Cancer Vaccine, and HPV 16 Vaccine Component of GARDASIL Presented at International Papillomavirus Conference
- [Safety Concerns About Testosterone Gel](https://iconicwoman.com/fda-black-box-warning/safety-concerns-about-testosterone-gel/) - Notice of FDA warning requiring manufacturers of two prescription topical testosterone gel products, AndroGel 1% and Testim 1%, to include a boxed warning on the products' labels. The agency is requiring this action after receiving reports of bad side effects in children who were exposed to testosterone by accident through contact with another person being treated with these products (secondary exposure).
- [CDC Reports HPV-Vaccine Health Concerns](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/cdc-reports-hpv-vaccine-health-concerns/) - Since it was licensed, CDC and FDA have been closely monitoring the safety of the HPV vaccine. There are 3 systems used to monitor the safety of vaccines after they are licensed and being used in the U.S. These systems can monitor side effects already known to be caused by vaccines as well as detect rare side effects that were not identified during a vaccine's clinical trials.
- [Guillain-Barré Syndrome](https://iconicwoman.com/guillain-barre-syndrome/guillain-barre-syndrome/) - Guillain-Barré Syndrome is believed to be an autoimmune disease, a condition in which the immune system attacks its own tissues as though they were foreign substances. Nerves are damaged by the immune system, usually in response to a viral or bacterial infection or other illness. As the immune system produces antibodies to fight the infection or illness, it may also produce antibodies that attack the covering (myelin sheath) of the peripheral nerves and sometimes the nerve fibers (axons). The resulting nerve damage leads to tingling and numbing sensations, muscle weakness, and paralysis.
- [Gardasil, Teenage Girls, Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Statistical Analysis](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/gardasil-teenage-girls-guillain-barre-syndrome-and-statistical-analysis/) - To unequivocally state that, based on simple statistics, there has been no indication that HPV vaccination increases the incidents of Guillain-Barré Syndrome is specious. There is no such thing as simple statistics. Statistical analysis depends on the type and veracity of the data gathered. A data set, which relates the Garasil injection to onset of GBS in teenage girls, has not yet been gathered, or analyzed by anyone in the US government. One cannot draw a valid statistical conclusion about data that has not yet been collected and correlated. That is supposition, not statistical analysis.
- [Ashley Ryburn Gardasil Adverse Effect Update](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/ashley-ryburn-gardasil-adverse-effect-update/) - This is a video about a girl named Ashley Ryburn who was treated by Dr. Joseph Arvay DC, a Colorado Maximized Living Doctor, for a Gardasil Vaccine injury. After just one adjustment you can see the power of her body going to work.
- [Pruebas de detección del cáncer de cuello uterino](https://iconicwoman.com/cancer-de-cuello-uterino/pruebas-de-deteccion-del-cancer-de-cuello-uterino/) - Pruebas de detección del cáncer de cuello uterino - El cáncer de cuello uterino es el cáncer femenino más fácil de prevenir con pruebas de detección periódicas y seguimiento a los resultados de las pruebas. Hay dos pruebas que pueden detectar el cáncer de cuello uterino o identificarlo en etapas iniciales:
- [Cervical Cancer Screening](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/cervical-cancer-screening/) - The Pap test is recommended for all women, and can be done in a doctor's office or clinic. During the Pap test, the doctor will use a plastic or metal instrument, called a speculum, to widen your vagina. This helps the doctor examine the vagina and the cervix, and collect a few cells and mucus from the cervix and the area around it. The cells are then placed on a slide or in a bottle of liquid and sent to a laboratory. The laboratory will check to be sure that the cells are normal.
- [More Cervical Cancer Information](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/more-cervical-cancer-information/) - Almost all cervical cancers are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), a common virus that can be passed from one person to another during sex. There are many types of HPV. Some HPV types can cause changes on a woman’s cervix that can lead to cervical cancer over time, while other types can cause genital warts.
- [Cervical Cancer 101](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/cervical-cancer-101/) - Cervical cancer is highly preventable in most Western countries because screening tests and a vaccine to prevent HPV infections are available. When cervical cancer is found early, it is highly treatable and associated with long survival and good quality of life.
- [Cervical Cancer Statistics](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/cervical-cancer-statistics/) - Cervical Cancer Statistics- Cervical cancer used to be the leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States. However, in the past 40 years, the number of cases of cervical cancer and the number of deaths from cervical cancer have decreased significantly. This decline largely is the result of many women getting regular Pap tests, which can find cervical precancer before it turns into cancer
- [Taking Fear and Panic Out of the Vaccine Decision Process](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/taking-fear-and-panic-out-of-the-vaccine-decision-process/) - Merck's award winning, "I want to be one less woman who battles cervical cancer" marketing campaign was designed to instill a sense of urgency, the need to protect girls from the clear and imminent danger of cervical cancer. When combined with a Blitzkrieg political lobbing effort, Merck managed to get Gardasil approved, mandated by states and in the bodies of young women everywhere before a lot of questions were asked let alone answered.
- [HPV-Associated Cervical Cancer](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/hpv-associated-cervical-cancer-2/) - More black and Hispanic women get cervical cancer and are diagnosed at later stages of the disease than women of other races or ethnicities, possibly because of decreased access to Pap testing or follow-up treatment.
- [ Urgent Warning about Gardasil](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/urgent-warning-about-gardasil/) - New information links the Gardasil vaccine to thousand of health complaints and more than 30 deaths. The following video, that warns parents about the dangerous side effects from Gardasil shot, was produced by Jenny Thompson the Director of the Health Sciences Institute.
- [Race and Ethnicity and Cervical Cancer](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/race-and-ethnicity-and-cervical-cancer/) - Graphic representation of incidents of cervical cancer compared by race and ethnicity. Recent trends suggest that cervical cancer incidence and mortality among women in some racial and ethnic populations in the United States continue to decrease significantly; however, rates are considerably higher among Hispanic and African-American women.1
- [Cervical Cancer, Incidence Rates by State](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/cervical-cancer-incidence-rates-by-state/) - State by State graphic representation of incident rates at which women developed or died from cervical cancer in 2005, the most recent year for which statistics are available.
- [The Is A Good START ](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/the-medical-device-safety-act-is-a-good-start/) - Published at www.nejm.org March 18, 2009 (10.1056/NEJMe0902377) The Medical Device Safety Act of 2009 Gregory D. Curfman, M.D., Stephen Morrissey, Ph.D., and Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D. PDF Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited PubMed Citation Patient safety is a national concern. Major stakeholders throughout our health care
- [ZOLL AED Plus Defibrillator](https://iconicwoman.com/product-recall/zoll-aed-plus-defibrillator/) - Class 1 recall because the defibrillator may fail to deliver a shock, and result in failure to resuscitate a patient during treatment of sudden cardiac arrest.
- [Garasil Contains "Sodium Borate" AKA Rat Poison](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/garasil-contains-sodium-borate-aka-rat-poison/) - Rat Poison Chemical Found In Ingredient List For HPV Vaccine, Garasil Regular readers of the Inconvenient Woman Blog already know that I think the HPV vaccine, Gardasil, is a dangerous and unnecessary drug. I believe that Merck has perpetrated a clever, profitable, but deadly hoax on the public. Merck’s proven ability to buy political cover,
- [Cervical Cancer — It Is Time To Think Differently](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/cervical-cancer-it-is-time-to-think-differently/) - Garasil Is NOT The Answer Merck’s continued looting of state and federal public health budgets for a dangerous and unnecessary vaccine is unsustainable and has to stop. There are better, safer, more sustainable ways to prevent and treat cervical cancer both at home and in developing countries. Safety, and ethical issues aside, as a country,
- [Gardasil Economics](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/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.
- [Gardasil, Another Prespective](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/gardasil-another-prespective/) - A reader, who knows how much Merck’s Gadasil Commercial, "I want to be one less woman who battles cervical cancer" trips my trigger, sent me the link to Kevin Roeten’s Blog. My issues with Gardasil have always been about an unnecessary, unsafe, outrageously expensive, drug, being marketed aggressively for a disease that can be controlled
- [Colposcopy— Finding Cervical Cancer](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/colposcopy—-finding-cervical-cancer/) - Colposcopy is a medical diagnostic procedure to examine an illuminated, magnified view of the cervix and the tissues of the vagina and vulva. Many premalignant lesions and malignant lesions in these areas have discernible characteristics which can be detected through the examination. It is done using a colposcope, which provides an enlarged view of the areas, allowing the colposcopist to visually distinguish normal from abnormal appearing tissue and take directed biopsies for further pathological examination. The main goal of colposcopy is to prevent cervical cancer by detecting precancerous lesions early and treating them.
- [Affordable Solutions To Cervical Cancer Threat](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/affordable-solutions-to-cervical-cancer-threat/) - Dr. David Walmer, a reproductive endocrinologist at Duke University, develops CerviScope, a Cervical Cancer diagnostic tool that is the ultimate in MacGyver-esque resourcefulness. Using parts poached from common, inexpensive items -- cheap binoculars, dime-store reading glasses, the plastic innards of a hard hat -- Warner and a team of engineers are building a scope that doctors in low-income countries can use to detect cervical cancer.
- [The Story Behind the CerviScope](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/the-story-behind-the-cerviscope/) - The cerviScope is a diagnostic medical device that supports the cervical cancer detection procedure called colposcopy. This examination involves visual inspection of the cervix with magnification to identify precancerous lesions. Acetic acid is applied to the cervix to highlight the lesions which become white. White and green light are used to illuminate the area and provide enhanced visual contrast.If precancerous tissue is identified, the clinician can remove the tissue by one of several procedures, including cryosurgery (freeze), diathermy (heat), laser removal or LEEP (radio).
- [Fox News Covers Gardasil Adverse Reactions](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/fox-news-covers-gardasil-adverse-reactions/) - Fox News reporter Heidi Hemmit conducts a well-balanced interview of two Denver teens, and their moms about the adverse side effects they suffered after their first Gardasil shot. The primary message is informed choice. Women need to base their decisions about Gardasil not on a hip marketing jingle, but on some solid research.
- [Gardasil May Raise Risk of Guillain-Barre Syndrome](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/gardasil-may-raise-risk-of-guillain-barre-syndrome/) - Girls and women who receive the Gardasil vaccine to prevent cervical cancer may be at increased risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare but serious disorder of the nervous system, in the first six weeks, especially the first two weeks, after vaccination. The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology.
- [Before You Vaccinate Your Child](https://iconicwoman.com/vaccination-policy/before-you-vaccinate-your-child/) - Is death by vaccination covered by your medical and life insurance policies? What is the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and how does it work. Before you expose your child to Gardasil, check up on your plan "P". What happens if everything goes "Pear-shaped."
- [Merck Puts Young Lives At Risk](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/merck-puts-young-lives-at-risk/) - We don’t need Gardasil to prevent cervical cancer. Gardasil is the closest thing I’ve ever seen to an out and out pharmaceutical hoax foisted on American women under the guise of "public health." It is dangerous and only exists on the market today as a testament to corporate greed and the "profits over people" mentality.
- [Viral Messaging and the HPV-Vaccine, Gardasil](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/viral-messaging-and-the-hpv-vaccine-gardasil/) - In the age of Internet-enabled, global communications Gardasil Moms have adapted the tradition phone-tree to social media. Our keyboards and video cameras have become our coffee klatch. We are organizing, petitioning, ‘outing’ and lobbing politicians and government regulators. We are contacting the CDC “in numbers to big to ignore” and demanding a more proactive policy to protect our girls from Merck’s rapacious profit machine.
- [Patient Recruitment for Clinical Trials Now on Twitter](https://iconicwoman.com/clinical-trials/patient-recruitment-for-clinical-trials-now-on-tweet/) - New York-based Applied Informatics has developed a “do-it-yourself” platform patient recruitment tool that moves the search for clinical trials onto social media sites like Twitter. It also allows would-be subjects with a personal health record (PHR) in Microsoft HealthVault or Google Health to import the information in lieu of filling out an online pre-screening form to be matched for trials.
- [The World Must Know](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-rights/the-world-must-know/) - Review of The Stoning of Soraya M. powerful tale of a village’s persecution of an innocent woman becomes both a daring act of witness and a compelling parable about mob rule. t is both a classic fable of good and evil and an inspiring tribute to the many fighting against injustice around the world. In theaters: June 26, 2009Copyright © 2009 Roadside Attractions
- [Big Pharma, Seriously in Touch With the Feminine Side](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/big-pharma-seriously-in-touch-with-the-feminine-side/) - Although women are certainly not the only targets of Big Pharma drug ads, winning the female audience is critical to the success of any given drug. Women are more proactive about their health, more likely to "talk to their doctor", more likely to encourage their husbands to seek medical treatment, and more likely to manage the healthcare for the entire family.
- [Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-vaccine/human-papillomavirus-hpv-infection/) - Genital HPV infection is a sexually transmitted disease caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), a group of viruses that includes more than 100 different strains or types. Most people who become infected with HPV will not have any symptoms and will clear the infection on their own. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection and contracting it does not mean it is a death sentence.
- [Merck Has A History of Producing Contaminated Vaccine Product](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/merck-has-a-history-of-producing-contaminated-vaccine-product/) - The issues discussed in the 1987 filmed interview of Merck's chief vaccine researcher, Dr Maurice Hilleman, conducted by Dr. Edward Shorter, Professor of the History of Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto raise serious doubts about the propaganda the public has been fed about the safety of Merck vaccines. Vaccines that have been promoted as “safe and effective” miraculous cures have been infecting (possibly) millions of people with cancer, leukemia, and AIDS.
- [HPV-Associated Cervical Cancer](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/hpv-associated-cervical-cancer/) - Understanding The Basics Earlier this week I read a report concerning the public’s general confusion about cervical cancer — its causes, detection and treatment. The sentence that I just can’t get out of my mind is a question asked by a teenage boy. “Can I get Cervical Cancer?” The kid was serious and his attitude
- [Gardasil—What Will Michelle Obama Do?](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil/gardasil—what-will-michelle-obama-do/) - Will Sasha and Malia Obama be TWO More Girls Put at Risk by The HPV Vaccine, Gardasil No matter where you stand within the American, political color-spectrum, Reds and Blues all agree: Michelle Obama is a fiercely protective Momma. To my mind that is a very good thing. However as the Adverse Reactions to the
- [Another Gardasil Victim's Story ](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/another-gardasil-victims-story/) - More mothers and daughters are sharing their experience with Merck's dangerous, but profitable, HPV vaccine, Gardasil [youtube]mnTvAneWBZs[/youtube] The Adverse reaction reports keep rolling in, yet the FDA and the CDC still stand by this expensive and dangous vaccine.
- [Afghan Women Protest; Activist Sitara Achakzai  Martyred](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-rights/afghan-women-protest-activist-sitara-achakzai-martyred/) - About 300 women marched in the streets of Kabul on April 15 to protest a new Afghan law that restricts their freedoms, despite facing a violent counter-demonstration, the Ottawa Citizen reported. Men shouted at the protestors, who were mostly young women, calling them "whores," among other epithets, threw stones and smashed the tail-lights of the
- [ Uganda Embraces Low-Tech Test for Cervical Cancer](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/uganda-embraces-low-tech-test-for-cervical-cancer/) - Sustainable Health Care For Women For regular readers of ‘Inconvenient Woman’, this will seem like an oft repeated refrain, but there are better, safer, more sustainable ways to prevent and treat cervical cancer both at home and in developing countries. Safety, and ethical issues aside, , many countries (in my opinion the Us is one
- [Health: Outrage - Forced Vaccinations Prince George’s County, Maryland](https://iconicwoman.com/vaccination-policy/health-outrage-forced-vaccinations-prince-george’s-county-maryland/) - Parents Threatened With Jail As a researcher, I scan the internet looking for news and analysis concerning women's health issues. Right now I'm very focused on the vaccination of millions of girls and young women with the Merck HPV vaccine Gardasil. This article made me think that the Gardasil debaucle is symtomatic of a more
- [Merck lobbying States to mandate Gardasil for school girls](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil®/merck-lobbying-states-to-mandate-gardasil-for-school-girls/) - Merck recently has been providing lobbyists throughout the country with information about its human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil in an effort to encourage states to mandate that middle-school age girls receive it, the Baltimore Sun reports (Smitherman, Baltimore Sun, 1/29). FDA in July 2006 approved Gardasil for sale and marketing to girls and women ages nine
- [ Pfizer's Reorg Focuses on Biotech](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/pfizers-reorg-focuses-on-biotech/) - Pfizer has announced its reorganization strategy with Wyeth. The research operations will be broken into two units: a biotechnology unit led by a Wyeth senior executive, and a pharmaceutical group led by a Pfizer scientist. The plan hopes to smoothly integrate Pfizer and Wyeth after the acquisition closes later this year. The Wyeth acquisition has
- [HPV Vaccine, Garasil, Blamed for Teen's Paralysis ](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil®/hpv-vaccine-garasil-blamed-for-teens-paralysis/) - “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
- [Veteran Domestic Violence Remains Camouflaged](https://iconicwoman.com/domestic-violence/veteran-domestic-violence-remains-camouflaged/) - Unintended Consequences of Deployment I have worked with DoD and Military personal a good portion of my professional life. I have the utmost respect for the men and women who voluntarily serve our country. However, I have always been deeply suspicious of our Government’s attitude and actions concerning returning Vets. Going all the way back
- [Lack of Sleep Lowers Resistance To Illness."](https://iconicwoman.com/sleep-loss/lack-of-sleep-lowers-resistance-to-illness/) - In a resent study, "Sleep Habits and Susceptibility to the Common Cold." Dr Sheldon Cohen, of the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and his colleagues found that poor sleep to be a predictor of low immunity. Researchers paid healthy male and female volunteers $800 to have cold viruses sprayed up
- [ FDA Approved First DNA Test for Two Types of Human Papillomavirus](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/fda-approved-first-dna-test-for-two-types-of-human-papillomavirus/) - FDA News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 13, 2009 Media Inquiries: Siobhan DeLancey, 301-796-4668 Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA Agency also approved second DNA test for wider range of HPV types The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved the first DNA test that identifies the two types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that cause the majority of cervical
- [Merck Puts Some of Their Gardasil Cash To Work](https://iconicwoman.com/merck-watch/merck-puts-some-of-their-gardasil-cash-to-work/) - Merck to buy Schering-Plough in $41 billion deal Reported by David Jolly Publ With the purchase, Merck is expanding its franchise in cardiovascular, respiratory and oncology drugs and shoring up its research pipeline, in particular with a Schering-Plough product called TRA, a promising drug designed to prevent blood clotting. In addition, Merck will benefit from the
- [ Pfizer Shares Critical ECG Data With Rochester Drug Safety Initiative](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/pfizer-shares-critical-ecg-data-with-rochester-drug-safety-initiative/) - The information in this post was gathered from an article published by Deb Bortifz in eCliniqua, Innovative Management in Clinical Trials. eCliniqua offers PodCasts, WebCasts, White Papers and much more. Their 'data-rich' site is one of my primary research resources for an objective review of clinical trial process and results. March 16, 2009 | Pfizer
- [Merck Execs See ‘Sage’ as Key Ingredient for Disease Biology ](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/merck-execs-see-‘sage’-as-key-ingredient-for-disease-biology/) - Will Open Source "SAGE" platform lead to more transperency to MERCK's research and clinical trials process?Consumers can only hope. Of course if MERCK corporate lawyers figure out that such an open source platform may lead to a clear chain of custody of the type of information they would rather not have readily available during a
- [ Medical Imaging Emerges in Clinical Trials ](https://iconicwoman.com/clinical-trials/medical-imaging-emerges-in-clinical-trials/) - Medical imaging in clinical trials has gained momentum since the FDA began allowing imaging as part of the evidence in support of a new drug application. The FDA, in an effort to increase new drug approvals, has identified imaging as an important technology for assessing new therapeutics and accelerating drug development in the future. There
- [ Social Networking Sites Have Myriad Trial-Related Uses](https://iconicwoman.com/clinical-trials/social-networking-sites-have-myriad-trial-related-uses/) - The information in this post was gathered from an article published by Deb Bortifz in eCliniqua, Innovative Management in Clinical Trials. eCliniqua offers PodCasts, WebCasts, White Papers and much more. Their 'data-rich' site is one of my primary research resources for an objective review of clinical trial process and results. March 2, 2009 | A
- [Safe, Cost Effective PAP Test or  Gardasil®](https://iconicwoman.com/pap-test/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
- [More About PAP SMEAR Option](https://iconicwoman.com/cancer-research/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.
- [Diabetes and Proactive Nutrition](https://iconicwoman.com/proactive-nutrition/diabetes-and-proactive-nutrition/) - Broccoli may undo diabetes damage Broccoli may help ward off prostate cancer Eating broccoli could reverse the damage caused by diabetes to heart blood vessels, research suggests. A University of Warwick team believe the key is a compound found in the vegetable, called sulforaphane. It encourages production of enzymes which protect the blood vessels, and
- [Twice as many women die from stroke every year than from breast cancer](https://iconicwoman.com/stroke/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
- [Hysterectomies in California have declined significantly](https://iconicwoman.com/reproductive-health/hysterectomies-in-california-have-declined-significantly/) - Hysterectomy Less Frequent and Has Fewer Complications By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: September 19, 2008 Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. DAVIS, Calif., Sept. 19 -- Hysterectomies in California have declined significantly since the early 1990s, as have the rates of complications associated with
- [Abortion Factoids](https://iconicwoman.com/unwanted-pregnancy/abortion-factoids/) - Declines in U.S. abortion rates mask the problem of unintended pregnancy among women of color and women with lower incomes, data released by the Guttmacher Institute on Sept. 23 showed. Abortion rates dropped 33 percent between 1980 and 2004, reaching the lowest level since 1974. But amid that, the abortion rate for black women was
- [FDA Addresses Questions About Gardasil®](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil®/fda-addresses-questions-about-gardasil®/) - 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
- [EPA Unlikely to Limit Rocket Fuel in Your Tap Water](https://iconicwoman.com/follow-the-money/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
- [Beat Breast Cancer Naturally](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/beat-breast-cancer-naturally/) - Nearly 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. But thanks to cutting-edge research in the last decade, more women are surviving and—even better—avoiding breast cancer altogether. Protect yourself against this prevalent disease with these easy diet changes. Cook with Indian spices. These aromatic seasonings do more than add flavor and clear your
- [Are You A Sister?](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/are-you-a-sister/) - Please take the time to visit the Sister Study web site. The Sister Study is the only long-term study of women aged 35-74 whose sister had breast cancer. It is a national study to learn how environment and genes affect the chances of getting breast cancer. A total of 50,000 women will join the effort
- [More Questions About Gardasil®](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil®/more-questions-about-gardasil®/) - 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
- [I think, therfore I am Fat?](https://iconicwoman.com/weight-gain/i-think-therfore-i-am-fat/) - Does Thinking Make Us Fatter? Researchers Find Mental Tasks Cause People to Eat More As a so-called knowledge worker, who spends more time on my computer then on my mattress, I found the following article by Lee Dye, published on ABC News, Online, September 10, 2008, fascinating and frightening. The majority of women hold "Think-Work"
- [Drug Web site raises important questions](https://iconicwoman.com/fda-failure-to-protect/drug-web-site-raises-important-questions/) - 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
- [ Women in Government Cervical Cancer Report ](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil®/women-in-government-cervical-cancer-report/) - 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.
- [Ways To Keep Healthy...YOU GOT TO MOVE IT! MOVE IT!](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-health/ways-to-keep-healthyyou-got-to-move-it-move-it/) - Inconvenient Women Are Willing To Take Responsibility For Their Own Wellness... In our last Blog we talked about the "likelihood of a woman being misdiagnosed" during the average "HMO-Office-Visit" Today we want to talk about how just a little more exercise during the week can yield BIG health benefits and help keep you out of
- [Stop Trying to Be Perfect](https://iconicwoman.com/emotional-health/stop-trying-to-be-perfect/) - Oprah and Friends is one of my favorite sites to visit. There is ALWAYS some nugget, in some cases , a whole mine full, of wisdom. Oprah and Friends reminds we women to treat ourselves more kindly. That is message that we can't hear too often. If you haven't already, please go to http://www.oprah.com/community and
- [NVIC Says Government Denies Gardasil Risks](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil®/nvic-says-government-denies-gardasil-risks/) - 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
- [Supreme Court To Consider Federal Pre-Emption In Wyeth V. Levine](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/supreme-court-to-consider-federal-pre-emption-in-wyeth-v-levine/) - The U.S. Supreme Court next week will begin hearing the case of Wyeth v. Levine, which centers on the question of whether FDA approval of a drug warning label pre-empts product safety suits brought in state courts, the Wall Street Journal reports (Mundy/Wang, Wall Street Journal, 10/27). The case involves Diana Levine, who lost her
- [Why Not Prevent Breast Cancer?](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/why-not-prevent-breast-cancer/) - Is finding a "Cure" the best and highest use of our intention? A friend sent me this image yesterday, with the message, "From her cute lips to God's ear." I smiled and sent the e-mail on to my writing partner, Leslie. But last night, as I fell asleep, I thought about the e-mail’s real message.
- [Urgent Voluntary Nationwide Recall Of Infants' Mylicon Gas Relief Dye Free Drops](https://iconicwoman.com/product-recall/urgent-voluntary-nationwide-recall-of-infants-mylicon-gas-relief-dye-free-drops/) - Recall -- Firm Press Release FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company. Johnson and Johnson--Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals Company Announces Urgent Voluntary Nationwide Recall Of Infants'
- [Lack of Sleep Could Undermine Exercise's Cancer Prevention Benefits](https://iconicwoman.com/cancer-research/lack-of-sleep-could-undermine-exercises-cancer-prevention-benefits/) - Exercise can lower your overall risk of cancer - but only if you get a good night's sleep After my last week’s rant about focusing efforts to PREVENT cancer as well as CURING cancer, I was please to review a research study that did just that! The study examined the link between exercise and cancer
- [It Is Past Time To Focus On Prevention, Rather Than Treatment!](https://iconicwoman.com/proactive-nutrition/it-is-past-time-to-focus-on-prevention-rather-than-treatment/) - "Americans have a shorter life expectancy than people in 41 other countries — even though Americans spend more on health care, on average, than people anywhere else. We've done it to ourselves. As a nation we're over-medicated and undernourished. We're overly obsessed with how we look and undervalue how we feel. We put an overemphasis
- [Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins](https://iconicwoman.com/proactive-nutrition/cancer-update-from-johns-hopkins/) - After Years Of Telling People Chemotherapy Is The Only Way To Try And Eliminate Cancer…Johns Hopkins Is Finally Starting To Tell You There Is An Alternative Way. 1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion.
- [Substantial Increase in Breast Cancer Risk From Combination Hormone](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/substantial-increase-in-breast-cancer-risk-from-combination-hormone/) - Nothing Changes, Unless SOMETHING Changes I first read this report in late 2003. I feel the information is still relevant, particularly with the media-marketing buzz around the 'convenience of menstrual suppression' becoming more pervasive. In one of her more cynical moments, my writing partner, Leslie Botha , stated, well since the Post-menopausal ’Wise Women’ have
- [Vaginal Yeast Infections](https://iconicwoman.com/vaginal-yeast-infection/vaginal-yeast-infections/) - Yeastie Beasties What is a vaginal yeast infection?A vaginal yeast infection is irritation of the vagina and the area around the vagina, called the vulva. It is caused by an overgrowth of the fungus or yeast Candida. Yeast normally live in the vagina in small numbers, but when the bacteria in the vagina become out
- [Safety For Sale…It Is Time To Demand Accountability From the FDA, and BIG PHARMA](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil®/safety-for-sale/) - Its time to look at the faces of lives lost… In the early 1990s, faced with protests by AIDS activists about the glacier-like approval of potential life saving drugs, the Clinton administration changed the FDA drug approval process. They allowed pharmaceutical companies to “fast track life-saving” drugs by absorbing the extra costs involved. The unintended
- [ETHEX Corporation Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall Of Prescription Prenatal and Iron Supplements ](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/ethex-corporation-issues-voluntary-nationwide-recall-of-prescription-prenatal-and-iron-supplements/) - If you are currently taking prescription prenatal and iron supplements, check with your health your health provider. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- St. Louis, MO, February 3, 2009 – ETHEX Corporation, a subsidiary of KV Pharmaceutical Company (NYSE: KVa/KVb), is issuing a voluntary nationwide recall of the products identified below (all lots within their expiration dates)
- [ Sen. Grassley (R-IA) Keeps Pharmaceutical Industry, FDA In The Crosshairs](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/sen-grassley-r-ia-keeps-pharmaceutical-industry-fda-in-the-crosshairs/) - 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
- [FDA Unveils List of 20 Drugs In Side-Effect Probes](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/fda-unveils-list-of-20-drugs-in-side-effect-probes-2/) - Goal Is to Provide Signs of Possibility Of Adverse Effect By JARED A. FAVOLE Wall Street Journal 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 professionals as early
- [Kansas teen wants Gardasil taken off the market](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil®/kansas-teen-wants-gardasil-taken-off-the-market/) - 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
- [ 2 Curas Contra El Cancer, 1 Vacuna y 1 Vitamina.](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/2-curas-contra-el-cancer-1-vacuna-y-1-vitamina/) - En este pequeño documento intento que la gente conozca la vacuna que inventaron en México, en la UNAM, que cura las lesiones papilomatosas incluso cuando son cancerosas, es decir, cura el cáncer concomitante al papilomavirus (HPV o por sus siglas en castellano: PVH). También quiero que se corra el velo sobre una verdad oculta: la carencia de la vitamina b17 es causa de cáncer, y su ingesta, la cura.
- [ HPV Vaccine : Death Toll Linked to Gardasil Vaccine Rises](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil®/hpv-vaccine-death-toll-linked-to-gardasil-vaccine-rises/) - "Given all the questions about Gardasil, the best public health policy would be to re-evaluate its safety and to prohibit its distribution to minors. In the least, governments should rethink
- [“N-Word” NUTRITION! ](https://iconicwoman.com/proactive-nutrition/“n-word”-nutrition/) - Tired and Cranky — It May Not Be PMS It Could Be that You Just Need to Energize Your Diet Our eating habits play a powerful role in how well we function on every level. Fatigue-Fighting Nutrition Strategies Your Mother Was Right — Eat Your breakfast... even if you don't feel hungry. British researchers at
- [Women Need To Be Proactive About Their Personal Health  ](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-health/women-need-to-be-proactive-about-their-personal-health-inconvenient-women-insist-on-diagnostic-tests-before-swallowing-a-“cure”-i-have-been-researching-the-endocrine-system-and-its/) - Inconvenient Women Insist on Diagnostic Tests, Before Swallowing a “BIG-Pharma Cure” I have been researching the endocrine system and its integral role in a woman’s health. Our endocrine system is composed of a network of organs and glands responsible for producing, storing, and secreting hormones that help to maintain and control vital functions such as
- [Five Steps to Hormonal Harmony](https://iconicwoman.com/hormone-cycle/five-steps-to-hormonal-harmony/) - A woman is a cycling being, not a being at the mercy of a cycle. — Leslie C. Botha During a recent radio program, one of Leslie's callers asked her a simple, yet extremely profound question. "OK, I get that I am being effected every month by my hormone cycle. NOW WHAT?” I thought Leslie’s
- [Congresswoman DeLauro Questions Political Influence Over FDA](https://iconicwoman.com/drug-approvals/congresswoman-delauro-questions-political-influence-over-fda/) - DeLauro Seeks Info From FDA Amid Political Influence Concerns By Jared A. Favole, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Congresswoman Rep. Rosa DeLauro, concerned about political influence in device and drug approvals, wants details about what products the Food and Drug Administration has approved in the last several months. She fears that industry influence
- [Female Sexual Dysfunction A "Corporate Creation"](https://iconicwoman.com/womens-health/sexual-dysfunction-womens-health-and-wellness/female-sexual-dysfunction-a-corporate-creation/) - Profitable Designer Diseases One of my most fascinating, ongoing ‘Holy Hormone Honey!’ research projects is tracking the connection between Big Pharma, the FDA and medical community. My writing partner, Leslie Botha, asked a simple question, “Girls and women have survived and thrived for eons. When and who declared that we must have some sort of
- [HRT Linked With Ovarian Cancer](https://iconicwoman.com/hrt/hrt-linked-with-ovarian-cancer/) - The latest in a series of health scares associated with Hormone Replacement Therapy Women on hormone replacement therapy have a 20 per cent higher risk of dying from ovarian cancer, says a new report. The research, from the authoritative Million Women study, suggests that as many as 1,000 women may have died from ovarian cancer
- [ HPV Vaccine Hoax](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil®/hpv-vaccine-hoax/) - Gardasil® vaccine puts girls and young women "at-risk"
- [ HPV Vaccine, Not Immune to Controversy ](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil®/hpv-vaccine-not-immune-to-controversy/) - 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.
- [ Cervical Cancer Vaccination Indications, Efficacy, And Side Effects](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/cervical-cancer-vaccination-indications-efficacy-and-side-effects/) - Due to the limited contact of the human papillomavirus (HPV) with the immune system, past infection does not guarantee lasting protection.
- [ What You Need to Know About HPV— Human Papilloma Virus](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil®/what-you-need-to-know-about-hpv—-human-papilloma-virus/) - Human papillomavirus, or HPV for short, is the current leading cause of cervical. There are over 100 different strains of the the virus, but only a few strains are considered to be high risk.
- [Gardasil® Product Price Review](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil®/gardasil®-product-price-review/) - Gardasil® — What is it worth?
- [ Gardasil VAERS adverse reactions](https://iconicwoman.com/gardasil®/gardasil-vaers-adverse-reactions/) - 1824 cases of adverse reactions to the Gardasil vaccination made by Merck. 35 of these adverse reactions are spontaneous abortions. These can be located on pages:
- [Hymen Mystique Remains Intact in Bare-All Culture](https://iconicwoman.com/virginity/hymen-mystique-remains-intact-in-bare-all-culture/) - Defining Virginity An outbreak in surgeries to restore virginity have spurred Carol Roye, a registered nurse, to talk about what every woman--and every teen in particular--should know about the most fabled part of her reproductive anatomy (WOMENSENEWS)--The hymen is the stuff of legend and lore in many cultures, the treasured prize a woman gives her
- [FDA — Progress in Protecting the Food Supply](https://iconicwoman.com/proactive-nutrition/fda-—-progress-in-protecting-the-food-supply/) - The following is a FDA Press Release concerning the safety of the nations food supply. It will either cheer you, or chill you. Bottom line— buy locally and in-season foods and a lot of the worry goes away. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 2008 Media Inquiries: Stephanie Kwisnek, 301-827-0955 Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA FDA Reports Significant
- [Women at Higher Risk for Pulmonary Hypertension](https://iconicwoman.com/your-bodyyour-self/women-at-higher-risk-for-pulmonary-hypertension/) - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Women are four times more likely to develop a debilitating and potentially lethal lung disorder known as pulmonary hypertension, a new study shows. Pulmonary hypertension is caused by high blood pressure in the arteries that supply the lungs with blood. People who suffer from the condition can become tired,
- [Equal-rights men lose out to traditional men in wages](https://iconicwoman.com/follow-the-money/equal-rights-men-lose-out-to-traditional-men-in-wages/) - A 25-year U.S. study has found that men who treat women as equals in the workplace make less money when compared to men with traditional views about women. The researchers also found that women earn less money than men do, in either type of workplace setting. The conclusions of the study found that men with
- [Science Experiment Likely To End Up on Your Dinner Table](https://iconicwoman.com/fda-failure-to-protect/science-experiment-likely-to-end-up-on-your-dinner-table/) - 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)
- [What are Vaginal and Vulvar Cancers](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-infection/what-are-vaginal-and-vulvar-cancers/) - 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
- [Nuritional Wellness and The Human Genome](https://iconicwoman.com/your-bodyyour-self/nuritional-wellness-and-the-human-genome/) - Genes vs. One-a-Day By Bonnie Church, CNC, Wellness Coach 25 years ago many leaders in the medical community considered vitamins a recipe for expensive urine. The reasoning went something like this, “Eat a balanced diet and you will get all the vitamins and minerals you need. “ That is a reasonable conclusion, no doubt.. Unfortunately
- [Hurt feelings 'worse than physical pain'](https://iconicwoman.com/your-bodyyour-self/hurt-feelings-worse-than-physical-pain/) - The old adage "sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you", simply is not true, according to researchers. Psychologists found memories of painful emotional experiences linger far longer than those involving physical pain. They quizzed volunteers about painful events over the previous five years. Writing in the journal Psychological Science,
- [Gardasil Financial Factoid](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/gardasil-financial-factoid/) - 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
- [NY Times Exposes Merck Gardasil® Predatory Advertising Campaign](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/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
- [Researchers Question Wide Use of HPV Vaccines](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/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
- [Skip The Drugs...Change Your Food Sources](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/skip-the-drugschange-your-food-sources/) - Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) I was doing some research for a fiend whose child had just been “diagnosed" Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) by a school nurse who suggested drug therapy. My first thought was a Kindergarten version of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest’…dazed and compliant preschoolers. In the past decade, ADHD, ”Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,
- [PTA Pimps School Girls](https://iconicwoman.com/take-action/pta-pimps-school-girls/) - Are Bikini-Clad Nubiles Really the Answer to School Budget Shortfalls It's Summer: Time to Clean Up the Bikini Car Wash By Kimberly Gadette - WeNews commentator Editor's Note: The following is a commentary. The opinions expressed are those of the author and not necessarily the views of Women's Enews. (WOMENSENEWS)--Ah, the sights of summer: movie
- [My Girl Died As 'Guinea Pig' For Gardasil®](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/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
- [GARDASIL Vaccine: The Damage Continues Part II](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/gardasil-vaccine-the-damage-continues-part-ii/) - 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
- [GARDASIL Vaccine: The Damage Continues](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/gardasil-vaccine-the-damage-continues/) - 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
- [CDC Spin on Gardasil and Its Safety](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/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
- [Curbing Rise in Caesarean Section births](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/curbing-rise-in-caesarean-section-births/) - Canada's Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists wants to curb Caesarean section births, up by 17 percent from 1993 and at an all-time high with more than 25 percent of women undergoing the procedure, the Toronto Star reported June 26. The increase is due to changing demographics, rising obesity rates and fear of malpractice lawsuits. A
- [Dietary Supplements...Part Duex](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/dietary-supplementspart-duex/) - Read, assimilate, form an opinion and take action! Inconvenient Women take the time to learn what is out there and how it might effect them and their families. Overview Overview About the Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling, and Dietary Supplements FDA-DSFL Electronic Newsletter | Recent Announcements | Frequently Requested Information FDA regulates dietary supplements under
- [What is the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA)?](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/what-is-the-dietary-supplement-health-and-education-act-dshea/) - Inconvenient Women PAY ATTENTION As Big Phama lobbies “Your” Congressional representatives to “control” the American public’s access to natural, “food-based” supplements it is probably a good thing to review the “LAW” that has been in place since 1994. Recently Congress has shown an alarming propensity to write new law instead of adequately enforcing existing legislation.
- [Young women gain weight combining Internet, alcohol, and little sleep](https://iconicwoman.com/weight-gain/young-women-gain-weight-combining-internet-alcohol-and-little-sleep/) - Adolescent girls and young women were found by a U.S. study to put on extra weight when they recreationally use the Internet more than average, do not get enough sleep, and drink a lot of alcohol. American medical researcher Catherine Berkey and colleagues from Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.), the Channing Laboratory, Department of
- [Big Pharma Threatens To Deprive Individuals of Natural Weight Loss Alternatives](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/big-pharma-threatens-to-deprive-individuals-of-natural-weight-loss-alternatives/) - Help Protect Health Freedom Today! Since when has natural health been a crime? As if the present war on natural health alternatives wasn’t enough, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSK), is now petitioning the FDA to determine that dietary supplements claiming to promote, assist or otherwise help with any aspect of weight loss are “disease claims,” and
- [Postmenopause and stroke:](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/postmenopause-and-stroke/) - Don’t sleep less than 6 hours or more than 9 A new U.S. study shows that postmenopausal women had increased risk of strokes if they sleep less than six hours a night or more than nine hours. The research study was led by American epidemiologist Jiu-Chiuan Chen, an assistant professor at the University of North
- [Summer of Women...at least on screen](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/summer-of-womenat-least-on-screen/) - Could It Be? Did Hollywood Execs Get The Memo? By Marjorie Rosen - WeNews commentator Editor's Note: The following is a commentary. The opinions expressed are those of the author and not necessarily the views of Women's Enews. (WOMENSENEWS)--Could it be that this season will turn out to be the Summer of Women, on screen,
- [Using biological medicines used during pregnancy and breast-feeding...](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/187/) - FDA News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 28, 2008 Media Inquiries: Susan Cruzan, 301-827-6242 Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA FDA Proposes New Rule to Provide Updated Information on the Use of Prescription Drugs and Biological Products during Pregnancy and Breast-feeding The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today proposed major revisions to the physician labeling for prescription drugs (including
- [Ova Donations Spur Ethical Debate in Israel](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/ova-donations-spur-ethical-debate-in-israel/) - As donated eggs run low for infertile couples in Israel, a push is on to widen the ranks of possible donors, Brenda Gazzar reports today. But one of the country's oldest women's rights groups fears the possibility of financial exploitation and wants tighter oversight. By Brenda Gazzar - WeNews correspondent JERUSALEM (WOMENSENEWS)--Ofra Balaban knows how
- [COMMENTARY](https://iconicwoman.com/your-bodyyour-self/commentary/) - Innocent 'Kissing' Book Offers Date-Rape Tutorial By Kristen Tsetsi - WeNews commentator Editor's Note: The following is a commentary. The opinions expressed are those of the author and not necessarily the views of Women's Enews. (WOMENSENEWS)--Almost 70 percent of all teens who had sex by age 14 have gone through one or more types of
- [Mammograms — What You Need To Know](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/mammograms-—-what-you-need-to-know/) - What is a mammogram? A mammogram is a safe, low-dose x-ray picture of the breast. It is currently the most effective method of detecting breast cancer in its earliest, most treatable stages. Why should I have a mammogram? A mammogram can find breast cancer that is too small to be seen or felt. If breast
- [New Genetic Test for Patients with Breast Cancer](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/new-genetic-test-for-patients-with-breast-cancer/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 8, 2008 Media Inquiries: Karen Riley, 301-827-6242 Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA FDA Approves New Genetic Test for Patients with Breast Cancer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a novel genetic test for determining whether patients with breast cancer are good candidates for treatment with the drug Herceptin (trastuzumab). The SPOT-Light
- [Coffee benefits your health and protects against many diseases.](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/coffee-benefits-your-health-and-protects-against-many-diseases/) - Why is there resistance to the idea that coffee benefits your health? Here’s why. Almost thirty years ago researchers at Harvard University announced a connection between coffee consumption and cancer. A few years later they retracted the study and recognized that the findings were flawed. However, since that first study and the media frenzy that
- [U.S. Employers Pushing Women Out of Work Force](https://iconicwoman.com/work-place-issues/us-employers-pushing-women-out-of-work-force/) - Baby Boom — All Over Again NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)--As Lisa Seftel was planning for her first child, she thought she had struck a good deal with her boss. After the baby came, she'd work three days managing a family-owned consultancy's Manhattan headquarters and two days at home in a New York suburb. This would give
- [Cash Bombs Fall on Canadian Officials as Merck Marketing Blitzkrieg Moves North](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/180/) - Is the HPV vaccine a victory for women's health or the triumph of aggressive marketing? Canadian reporters struggle to shed light on a muddled debate that's as much about business as it is about health. When federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced $300 million in funding for a program to vaccinate girls and young women
- [Avoid Legalized Drug Pushers...Take Back Control of Your Body With Proactive Nutrition](https://iconicwoman.com/proactive-nutrition/avoid-legalized-drug-pusherstake-back-control-of-your-body-with-proactive-nutrition/) - The Top Ten Anti Cancer Foods Rushing out the door to work, you grab yourself a bag lunch: a soy-make-believe-turkey sandwich on whole wheat, salad with a little bit of dressing, a handful of walnuts, and two tangerines. A healthy meal you think. More than healthy: As a matter of fact, researchers believe that those
- [Don't Let Congress Take Your Vitamins Away!](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/dont-let-congress-take-your-vitamins-away/) - In 1994, Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). The passage of DSHEA witnessed the biggest victory for consumers in the history of Congress. More letters were written to Congress than on any other piece of legislation in the history of our country. The voice of the people spoke louder on dietary
- [Big Fat Pharma Liars](https://iconicwoman.com/follow-the-money/big-fat-pharma-liars/) - Industry attacks supplements to eliminate weight-loss competition. Big Pharma is at it again, this time teaming up with other anti-supplement cohorts to spearhead a petition that urges the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to implement stringent new limitations on manufacturers of weight-management supplements. Of course, it should come as no surprise that the particular large
- [Antipsychotics — Increased Risk of Mortality In Elderly Patients Treated for Dementia-related psychosis](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/antipsychotics-—-increased-risk-of-mortality-in-elderly-patients-treated-for-dementia-related-psychosis/) - Information for Healthcare Professionals — Antipsychotics FDA ALERT [6/16/2008]: FDA is notifying healthcare professionals that both conventional and atypical antipsychotics are associated with an increased risk of mortality in elderly patients treated for dementia-related psychosis. In April 2005, FDA notified healthcare professionals that patients with dementia-related psychosis treated with atypical antipsychotic drugs are at an
- [Hunger hormone' depression link](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/hunger-hormone-depression-link/) - High levels of the "hunger hormone" ghrelin have an antidepressant effect, US researchers claim. Blocking the body's response to ghrelin has been suggested as a weight loss treatment but it may also produce unintended effects on mood, they said. The Nature Neuroscience study found mice with increased levels of the hormone showed fewer signs of
- ['Abortion Drug' Awaits New Political Treatment](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/abortion-drug-awaits-new-political-treatment/) - With more research, it could offer new treatments for breast cancer, fibroids and endometriosis. But since it's an abortion drug, since it weathered a congressional investigation two years ago--and since it's in short supply--researchers have yet to test its full potential. That, says Amy Allina, program director of the Washington-based National Women's Health Network, is
- [Better Information for Pregnant Women](https://iconicwoman.com/your-bodyyour-self/better-information-for-pregnant-women/) - Pregnant Women to Benefit from Better Information Printer-friendly PDF (310 KB) On this page: Why FDA is Taking Action Labeling Background Look of the New Labeling What's Next? The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken action to give women and their health care professionals better information about the effects of medicines when used by
- [Your Guide to Reporting Problems to FDA](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/your-guide-to-reporting-problems-to-fda/) - Reporting any adverse events (unexpected side effects) to FDA after using a medical product, or other problems with any products that the agency regulates. Printer-friendly PDF (366 KB) On this page: Tips for Reporting Quick-Reference Chart for Reporting Problems to FDA Types of Problems FDA Doesn't Handle Consumers play an important public health role by
- [Too old for the pill?](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/too-old-for-the-pill/) - As middle years near, women may need to rethink contraceptive choices If you're approaching the middle years of your life, it might be time to review your choice of contraceptives. But don't be too hasty in putting them away for good. Middle-age women and teenagers have the highest rates of unintended pregnancy and abortion in
- [FDA 101:](https://iconicwoman.com/fda-clinical-trials/fda-101/) - How to Use the Consumer Complaint System and MedWatch On this page: Consumer Complaint Reporting Reporting Problems Can Spur Action MedWatch Reporting How to Report to MedWatch Problems to Report to MedWatch Reporting Emergencies FDA Consumer Complaint Coordinators (regions and telephone numbers) If you have a complaint about a product regulated by the Food and
- [FUNDING SERIOUS CHANGE](https://iconicwoman.com/take-action/funding-serious-change/) - She 'Bends Toward Justice' by Giving Her All By Laurie Emrich - WeNews commentator (WOMENSENEWS)--I want to live in a world where cooperation, equity and justice thrive. To make that happen I try to follow the advice of 1960s rhythm and blues singer-songwriter Wilson Pickett: "Ya gotta shake whatcha brought whicha." Part of what I
- [The FDA Fails To Protect Patient Rights](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/the-fda-fails-to-protect-patient-rights/) - The Food and Drug Administration should rethink its rejection of the Declaration of Helsinki. Later this year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will adopt new standards for human clinical trials conducted without its advance sign-off in foreign countries. The rules will govern whether data from such trials can be used in applications to
- [Monkey Diets Offer New Clue on Binge Eating](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/monkey-diets-offer-new-clue-on-binge-eating/) - Monkeys Under Stress More Likely to Binge on Banana Chips Many believe the worst day at work can be curbed by inhaling a big tub of ice cream, but now scientists have found new evidence suggesting that bingeing isn't our fault -- it's biology. A new study shows that bingeing when stressed might be biological.
- [FDA Admits Dental Mercury Poses Health Risk To Pregnant Women And Children](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/fda-admits-dental-mercury-poses-health-risk-to-pregnant-women-and-children/) - Following the settlement of a lawsuit earlier this week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its consumer advice on mercury amalgam to say that it poses health risks to pregnant women, children, and the unborn. The updated consumer advice, which is in the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) section
- [FDA to Merck — Correct Vaccine Plant Faults](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/fda-to-merck-—-correct-vaccine-plant-faults/) - The Food and Drug Administration has ordered Merck & Co. to correct numerous manufacturing deficiencies at its main vaccine plant, the latest in a string of setbacks for the drug maker. The FDA released a warning letter sent to Merck's chief executive, Richard T. Clark, that states FDA inspectors determined manufacturing rules are not being
- [Contaminated Nipple Cream](https://iconicwoman.com/product-recall/contaminated-nipple-cream/) - Do not use or buy Mommy's Bliss Nipple Cream The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning people not to use or buy Mommy's Bliss Nipple Cream because the product contains potentially harmful ingredients that may cause respiratory problems or vomiting and diarrhea in infants. Marketed by MOM Enterprises Inc. in San Rafael, Calif., the
- [Estrogen powers women, like testosterone in men](https://iconicwoman.com/your-bodyyour-self/estrogen-powers-women-like-testosterone-in-men/) - According to a University of Michigan study, estrogen appears to be the critical factor in what motivates women to be competitive—very similarly to how testosterone makes men aggressive. U.S. biopsychologist Steven Stanton, working with U.S./German researcher Oliver Schultheiss (University of Michigan, currently on temporarily leave of absence at Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany), conducted the
- [FDA Warns Consumers Against Using Mommy's Bliss Nipple Cream](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/fda-warns-consumers-against-using-mommys-bliss-nipple-cream/) - FDA News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 23, 2008 Media Inquiries: Rita Chappelle, 301-827-6242 Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA FDA Warns Consumers Against Using Mommy's Bliss Nipple Cream Product can be harmful to nursing infants The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use or purchase Mommy's Bliss Nipple Cream, marketed by MOM Enterprises, Inc.,
- [GARDASIL AND HPV INFECTION — GET THE FACTS](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/gardasil-and-hpv-infection-—-get-the-facts/) - HPV Report from the National Vaccine Information Center National Vaccine Information Center (Debold V, Downey C, Fisher B). (2007). NVIC Analysis of Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System Reports: Part III, Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine Safety, Analysis of Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System Reports: Part III (August 15, 2007 http://www.nvic.org/Diseases/HPV/HPV_Vaccine_Safety_ Report__Part_III_(081507_revised)[1].pdf NVIC Analysis Shows Greater Risk
- [Vaccination Decisions](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/vaccination-decisions/) - Are you trying to make a decision about whether to vaccinate yourself or your child? en Espanol Introductory Message Parents Dos and Don'ts Refusing Vaccines — Doctors Speak Out (Off-site video) Introductory Message If you are trying to make a decision about whether to vaccinate yourself or your child we hope you find the information
- [FDA Sentinel Initiative — Information Management](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/fda-sentinel-initiative-—-information-management/) - New Efforts to Help Improve Medical Products for Patient Safety and Quality of Medical Care HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced efforts underway at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that will complement each other to improve patient safety and the quality of medical care.
- [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and "Hot Loads"](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/vaccine-adverse-event-reporting-system-vaers-and-hot-loads/) - Get The Information You Need About Vaccine Reactions VAERS Database Online In 1986, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (PL-99-660) that among other things required healthcare providers to report vaccine reactions to a centralized reporting system. As a result the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) to which parents, physicians and vaccine manufacturers
- [FDA Obtains Permanent Injunction Against Scientific Laboratories](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/fda-obtains-permanent-injunction-against-scientific-laboratories/) - FDA News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 16, 2008 Media Inquiries: Rita Chappelle, 301-827-6242 Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA FDA Obtains Permanent Injunction Against Scientific Laboratories, Inc. Company manufactures and distributes unapproved and adulterated drugs The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Scientific Laboratories Inc., and its president, Rajeshwari Patel, and chief executive officer, Amit
- [Schering-Plough posts 48% drop](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/schering-plough-posts-48-drop/) - Big Pharma Takes Another Hit Schering-Plough Corp., the maker of the Vytorin and Zetia cholesterol pills, said first-quarter profit fell 48 percent, less than analysts expected, on costs for acquiring Organon Biosciences NV. Profit excluding some items was 53 cents a share, beating analysts' estimates by 15 cents and boosting shares the most in almost
- [Surgery Beta Blockers 'Up Risk'](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/surgery-beta-blockers-up-risk/) - The use of beta blocker drugs before surgery to cut the risk of heart problems may be counter-productive, a study suggests. Researchers found patients given the drugs were a third more likely to die within a month of surgery than those given a dummy pill. Those on the blood pressure-lowering drugs also had double
- [Big Pharma Passes the Buck](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/big-pharma-passes-the-buck/) - Drug manufacturers could be protected from side-effect lawsuits. Synthetic drug treachery has plummeted to a new ethical low with a disturbing development that may grant Big Pharma eternal immunity from consumer lawsuits. This most recent affront to justice involves a birth-control drug with side effects believed to have caused the deaths of 40 women,
- [Apostolic Succession and Western Medicine](https://iconicwoman.com/your-bodyyour-self/apostolic-succession-and-western-medicine/) - How the “God Complex” Proliferated Most western Doctors have a definite sense of infallibility — it even has a name —the ‘God Complex’. Am I the only one who wonders, what could possibly occur in an individual’s life that gives them the inalienable correctness? It can’t be 20-odd years of education, other professionals rack-up that
- [European Approach to HPV Testing and Treatment](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/european-approach-to-hpv-testing-and-treatment/) - It is past time for the FDA to recant its Public Health HPV Vaccine policy. We all have to question if Merck’s GARDASIL ® Billion Dollar Gambit is the correct utilization of increasingly limited public health resources, or one of the most infamous transfers of wealth from public to private sector in American history Cervical
- [Cellular Memory](https://iconicwoman.com/your-bodyyour-self/cellular-memory/) - You Are What You Feel "Your cells are constantly are constantly processing experience and metabolizing it according to your personal views. You don’t just funnel raw data through your eyes and ears and stamp it with a judgment. You physically turn into the interpretation as you internalize it. Someone who is depressed over losing his
- [Thromboembolic Events with Ortho Evra Contraceptive Patch](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/thromboembolic-events-with-ortho-evra-contraceptive-patch/) - New Data on Thromboembolic Events with Ortho Evra Contraceptive Patch The prescribing information for the Ortho Evra Contraceptive Transdermal Patch is being updated with results of a new study on the risk of venous thromboembolism. This study found that women aged 15-44 who used the birth control patch were at higher risk of developing venous
- [Fentanyl (Duragesic) Patches Recalled](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/fentanyl-duragesic-patches-recalled/) - What are fentanyl skin patches? FENTANYL (Duragesic®, E-TRANS® Fentanyl) relieves moderate to severe chronic pain. Fentanyl patches are commonly used to treat pain associated with cancer. Once the patch is applied, the medicine is slowly absorbed through your skin into the bloodstream to help control your pain. Generic fentanyl skin patches are available. FDA Recalls
- [Adverse Reactions Linked to Botox Use](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/adverse-reactions-linked-to-botox-use/) - FDA Notifies Public of Adverse Reactions Linked to Botox Use Ongoing safety review of Botox, Botox Cosmetic and Myobloc taking place The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today notified the public that Botox and Botox Cosmetic (Botulinum toxin Type A) and Myobloc (Botulinum toxin Type B) have been linked in some cases to adverse reactions,
- [Beating Tension](https://iconicwoman.com/your-bodyyour-self/141/) - Research shows anticipation of laughter helps reduce body's release of stress hormones Anticipating a good laugh reduces the release of stress hormones that can weaken your immune system over time, according to a new study. The researchers, who previously had found that the build-up for mirthful experience boosted health-protecting hormones, suggested that mirth may be
- [Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/freedom-of-information-act-foia/) - The 1996 amendments to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) mandate publicly accessible "electronic reading rooms" with agency FOIA response materials and other information routinely available to the public, with electronic search and indexing features. Before submitting an FOIA request, please check to see if the information you are looking for is already available on
- [FOIA Requester Service Centers](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/foia-requester-service-centers/) - Each FOIA office of HHS has a FOIA Requester Service Center that processes relevant FOIA requestss. AoA - Administration on Aging ACF - Administration for Children and Families AHRQ - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CMS - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services FDA - Food
- [BIG PHARMA — 2008 1st Quarter Results](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/big-pharma-—-2008-1st-quarter-results/) - Eli Lilly and Merck reported their first-quarter results on April 21st At Eli Lilly, earnings are expected to be up 14% year over year, to 95¢ per share, thanks to the success of Zyprexa, its antipsychotic drug, and Cymbalta, its depression treatment. Analysts are less bullish on Merck. They are forecasting a 2¢ increase in
- [Researchers Examine Effect of Sex Education on Risk of Pregnancy, STIs Among Teens](https://iconicwoman.com/std-infection/researchers-examine-effect-of-sex-education-on-risk-of-pregnancy-stis-among-teens/) - 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
- [A Hard Plastic Is Raising Hard Questions](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/a-hard-plastic-is-raising-hard-questions/) - 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, widely used in the making
- [Rethinking Healthcare... Completely](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/rethinking-healthcare-completely/) - from the about-time dept of The Techdirt Insight Community A few months back, after meeting UCLA professor David Levine at the Cato Institute conference on copyrights, I read his book, Against Intellectual Monopoly (actually a large part of it I read on the flight home from that trip). Of particular interest to me was chapter
- [Saliva May Reveal Heart Attack](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/saliva-may-reveal-heart-attack/) - Women account for nearly half of all heart attack deaths. Heart disease is the number one killer of both women and men. Many female heart attack patients, present with non-specific symptoms or have normal EKG readings, make life-saving diagnosis and treatment problematic. Any test, or procedure that helps women get fast accurate treatment for heart
- [Frequently Asked Questions About Heart Attack](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/frequently-asked-questions-about-heart-attack/) - Heart Attack Warning Signs— Q: How would I know if I were having a heart attack? Often, it is not easy to tell. But there are symptoms people may have. These are: an uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness, or pain in the center of the chest that lasts more than a few minutes, or goes away
- [Women and Heart Attack](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/women-and-heart-attack/) - If you're a woman, you may not believe you're as vulnerable to a heart attack as men–but you are. Women account for nearly half of all heart attack deaths. Heart disease is the number one killer of both women and men. There are differences in how women and men respond to a heart attack. Women
- [Coming of Age on Antidepressants](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/coming-of-age-on-antidepressants/) - Inconvenient Woman has covered the issue of increased suicide rates for preteens and teenagers in previous Blog entries. FDA Requiring Suicide Studies in Drug Trials "...After decades of inattention to the possible psychiatric side effects of experimental medicines, the Food and Drug Administration is now requiring drug makers to study closely whether patients become suicidal
- [Medical Model Teaches Students Art of Gentle Exams](https://iconicwoman.com/your-bodyyour-self/medical-model-teaches-students-art-of-gentle-exams/) - "I provide a vagina and breasts to medical students learning to do their first pelvic and breast exams..." —Amy Littlefield, WeNews correspondent There is a second-year medical student standing in front of me, looking at my vagina. He is holding a speculum and does not know what to do with it. I wonder if he
- [A Guide to Drug Safety Terms at FDA](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/a-guide-to-drug-safety-terms-at-fda/) - Inconvenient Woman readers know that I'm not an FDA fan. In my opinion, the troubled agency’s close ties and financial dependence on Big Pharma has been weakened its ability to perform its primary function — protecting the public. The FDA’s documented failure to impartially judge the veracity of drug trial results and enforce safety oversight
- [Johnson & Johnson's Pre-Emption Defense Over Safety of Birth Control Patch](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/johnson-johnsons-pre-emption-defense-over-safety-of-birth-control-patch/) - IN THE COURTS: New York Times Examines Johnson & Johnson's Pre-Emption Defense Over Safety of Birth Control Patch From DAILY WOMEN'S HEALTH POLICY REPORT, [April 8, 2008] The New York Times on Sunday examined Johnson & Johnson's use of the legal doctrine of preemption to defend against claims that the birth control patch Ortho Evra
- [There is A New Book in the Iconic Woman Bookshelf...](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/there-is-a-new-book-in-the-iconic-woman-bookshelf/) - 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
- [Vytorin — Another FDA Failure To Protect Public](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/vytorin-—-another-fda-failure-to-protect-public/) - Big Pharma Giants Schering and Merck Take Heavy Criticism Over Vytorin Failure This week Merck executives are very grateful for the revenue predictions for their blockbuster HPV vaccine, GARDASIL. Profits are predicted to climb from $300 million to $4 billion over the next year. After the Vytorin debacle —they’re going to need the cash. So
- [Bimbos R’ Us](https://iconicwoman.com/follow-the-money/bimbos-r’-us/) - Universal Out Rage Rings Peal Over French Website Developer When a French website called Ma-Bimbo quickly boasts 1.2 million subscribers, Nicholas Jacquart, developer and entrepreneur, moved to South London with a 30-year-old businessman, Chris Evans and set up Ouza Ltd to try his luck with Baby British Bimbos. Looks like he gauged the market correctly.
- [Schools Need More 'Frank Talk' in Sex Education Courses To Curb STDs](https://iconicwoman.com/std-infection/schools-need-more-frank-talk-in-sex-education-courses-to-curb-stds/) - 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.
- [Public Interest Mashup* Follows Political Money Trail](https://iconicwoman.com/follow-the-money/public-interest-mashup-follows-political-money-trail/) - Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection MAPLight.org is developing a mashup* that shows a correlation between political campaign contributions and the way lawmakers vote. During the Watergate scandal that eventually toppled President Richard Nixon, confidential source "Deep Throat" advised two enterprising Washington Post reporters to "follow the money" to uncover the scandal's ringleaders. MAPLight.org, a
- [Deadlines May Affect FDA Decision Process](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/deadlines-may-affect-fda-decision-process/) - Analysis of decades of drug approvals by a Harvard Research team, published in the March 27th New England Journal of Medicine, provides the first scientific evidence of what many have come to suspect. Congress-mandated deadlines that control the FDA review of new medications may have “spurred a dangerous rush to judgment.” Looking at drugs that
- [FDA Identifies First Steps in Requirements for Safety Plans](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/fda-identifies-first-steps-in-requirements-for-safety-plans/) - FDA News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 27, 2008 Media Inquiries: Chris DiFrancesco, 301-827-6242 Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA FDA Identifies First Steps in Requirements for Safety Plans for Certain Drugs and Biologics New FDAAA requirements being implemented The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has identified 25 drugs and biologic products that will be required to submit safety
- [FDA To Review Merck's Application To Expand HPV Vaccine Gardasil's Approval To Older Women](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-infection/fda-to-review-mercks-application-to-expand-hpv-vaccine-gardasils-approval-to-older-women/) - FDA has granted priority review status to Merck's application to expand marketing of its human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil to women ages 27 to 45, the company said Wednesday, Reuters reports. The designation means that an FDA decision could come within six months, according to Reuters. currently is approved by the FDA for use by girls
- [What Was Old Is New Again](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/what-was-old-is-new-again/) - Women Turning to Natural Methods of Birth Control Young women are turning to old ways to manage fertility cycles. Amanda Zamani of Asheville, N.C., never really liked hormonal birth control and its effects on her body. She had a hard time remembering to take a birth-control pill at the same time every day, and she
- [One in Four Girls...](https://iconicwoman.com/std-infection/one-in-four-girls/) - Nationally Representative CDC Study Finds 1 in 4 Teenage Girls Has a Sexually Transmitted Disease "3.2 Million Female Adolescents Estimated to Have at Least One of the Most Common STDs" Chicago (March 11, 2008) – A CDC study released today estimates that one in four (26 percent) young women between the ages of 14 and
- [Vegetables Tied To Lower Breast Cancer Risk](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/15/) - What breastcancer.org says about this article Much research has shown that what you eat as well as your genetic make-up probably have some influence on your risk of breast cancer. The study reviewed here looked at how diet and genetics might combine to influence breast cancer risk. More than 6,000 Chinese women participated in
- [25% of U.S. Girls, Young Women Ages 14 to 19 Have Common STI](https://iconicwoman.com/std-infection/25-of-us-girls-young-women-ages-14-to-19-have-common-sti/) - DAILY WOMEN'S HEALTH POLICY REPORT PUBLIC HEALTH & EDUCATION About 25% of U.S. girls and young women ages 14 to 19 have at least one of four common sexually transmitted infections, according to a study released Tuesday by CDC during a conference in Chicago, the New York Times reports. According to the Times, the study
- [Confidential Teen Screening for STIs Needed](https://iconicwoman.com/std-infection/confidential-teen-screening-for-stis-needed/) - At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens, according to the first study of its kind in this age group. A virus that causes cervical cancer is by far the most common sexually transmitted infection in teen girls aged 14 to 19, while the
- [HRT Can Lead to Abnormal Mammograms, Biopsies…](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/hrt-can-lead-to-abnormal-mammograms-biopsies…/) - ...and may limit effectiveness of these breast cancer detection methods Women who take combined hormone therapy for about five years have a higher risk of abnormal mammograms and breast biopsies. This, in turn, may decrease the effectiveness of these methods of detecting breast cancer, according to a new study published in the Feb. 25 issue
- [FDA Approves Wyeth Antidepressant](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/fda-approves-wyeth-antidepressant/) - Read This FDA Press Release to the Partridge Family Theme Song, "Come on Get Happy" "Trav'lin' along, here's a song that we're singing Come on get happy A whole lotta lovin' is what we'll be bringing We'll make you happy We'll make you happy Come on get happy!" Wyeth Gets Important FDA for “New” Antidepressant
- [WHI Estrogen-Plus-Progestin Trial...](https://iconicwoman.com/hrt/whi-estrogen-plus-progestin-trial/) - ...3 Years Later Increased risk for adverse cardiovascular outcomes and invasive breast cancer — and reduced risk for fractures and colorectal cancer — did not persist after women discontinued HT. In the summer of 2002, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) randomized trial of estrogen plus progestin was stopped after the WHI writing group concluded that
- [Health Risks and Benefits 3 Years After  Stopping Randomized Treatment With Estrogen and Progestin](https://iconicwoman.com/hrt/health-risks-and-benefits-3-years-after-stopping-randomized-treatment-with-estrogen-and-progestin/) - The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Trial Team Gerardo Heiss, MD; Robert Wallace, MD; Garnet L. Anderson, PhD; Aaron Aragaki, MS; Shirley A. A. Beresford, PhD; Robert Brzyski, MD; Rowan T. Chlebowski, MD; Margery Gass, MD; Andrea LaCroix, PhD; JoAnn E. Manson, MD; Ross L. Prentice, PhD; Jacques Rossouw, MD; Marcia L. Stefanick, PhD; for the
- [FDA Fiddles](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/89/) - While Wyeth Wrings Profits From Womens BodiesHere's some news that will make us all depressed - Wyeth has won FDA approval for its new antidepressant Pristiq. Yes, the same FDA who has just told us "bioidentical hormones" don't exist, the same FDA who has told compounding pharmacists to stop using Estriol, the mildest of estrogens
- [The Wisdom to Look at Life Differently](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/the-wisdom-to-look-at-life-differently/) - A dear friend sent this email to me. I thought I’d share the wisdom of looking at life differently. I don’t know whom to credit for this message, but I do wish to thank them for sharing their creativity. I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of
- [GOOD GRIEF! Mommy Alert!](https://iconicwoman.com/product-recall/good-grief-mommy-alert/) - Sherwood Brands Announces Nationwide Recall of Pokémon Branded “Valentine Cards and Pops” —Because They May Contain Metal Fragments FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company.
- [A Handbook for Requesting Information and Records from FDA](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/a-handbook-for-requesting-information-and-records-from-fda/) - The guidance given in this handbook is intended to facilitate requests for both public information and records not originally prepared for distribution by FDA. This handbook has been updated in response to the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 1996. Obtaining Public Information Certain documents that are prepared for public distribution--such as press releases,
- [Women and HIV/AIDS](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/women-and-hivaids/) - “Women are increasingly affected by AIDS. In 1985, less than five percent of new AIDS cases in the U.S. were among women and girls ages 13 years and older. By 2005, it was nearly 27 percent.” Around the world, women now make up half of all people living with HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus (im-myoo-no-duh-fish-in-see),
- [The Man Who Would Decree An Untested Public Health Policy](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/the-man-who-would-decree-an-untested-public-health-policy/) - ...and arrogantly endanger of generation of Texas girls Backgrounder on the man who would be emperor… Rick Perry was elevated to the Governor of Texas in late 2000 from Lieutenant Governor upon the election of then-Governor George W. Bush as President of the United States. Perry was subsequently elected Governor in his own right in
- [FDA Requiring Suicide Studies in Drug Trials](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/fda-requiring-suicide-studies-in-drug-trials/) - After decades of inattention to the possible psychiatric side effects of experimental medicines, the Food and Drug Administration is now requiring drug makers to study closely whether patients become suicidal during clinical trials. The new rules represent one of the most profound changes of the past 16 years to regulations governing drug development. But since
- [Breast Cancer Statistics](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/breast-cancer-statistics/) - Breast Cancer Statistics...What Are Your Chances? Aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women. Breast cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in Hispanic women. It is the second most common cause of cancer death in white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native women.
- [FDA Takes Action Against Compounded Menopause Hormone Therapy Drugs](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/fda-takes-action-against-compounded-menopause-hormone-therapy-drugs/) - You're Kidding Me — Right? My first thought when this FDA Press Release crossed my screen was, “What does a multibillion-dollar, medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex buy with its obscenely high profits?” Apparently, the Federal agency that is chartered to oversee that very industry. The fine hand of BIG PHARMA’s special-interest lobbing could not be more apparent
- [Endocrinologist Association Encourages HRT in Younger Women](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/endocrinologist-association-encourages-hrt-in-younger-women/) - When I first read this report, I was reminded of that classic 50's cigarette commercial that featured a lab-cloaked “DOCTOR” (Queue Heavenly Chorus) and asked, ”What cigarette do you smoke, Doctor?” Hey if a Camel® is good enough Doctors, surely cigarette smoke is safe? Right! Who would question a doctor back in the golden days
- [Just Another Day In The Pink Stirrups...](https://iconicwoman.com/take-action/just-another-day-in-the-pink-stirrups/) - Just let me take the vaginal specula out of the refrigerator, and I'll be right with you, my dear... The 2007 edition of “Making the Grade on Women’s Health” by the National Women’s Law Center gives a state by state ranking of the health of women across the United States. It's not good! Quel Surprise!
- [High Levels of Lead Found In Lipsticks](https://iconicwoman.com/fda-failure-to-protect/high-levels-of-lead-found-in-lipsticks/) - Kissable Lips? Maybe, Not So Much! Lipsticks tested by a consumer rights group found that more than half contained lead and some popular brands including Cover Girl, L'Oreal and Christian Dior had more lead than others. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics said Thursday that tests on 33 brand-name red lipsticks by the Bodycote Testing Group
- [Serious Information: Heart Attack In Women](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/serious-information-on-heart-attack-in-women/) - I just received this information from a dear friend. I was aware that female heart attacks are of a different nature than those of men, but this is the best description I've ever read...and I wanted to share it with my girl friends and readers. Women and Heart Attacks (Myocardial infarction) Women rarely have the
- [How Many Women Get Breast Cancer?](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/how-many-women-get-breast-cancer/) - Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States, other than skin cancer. It is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer. About 182,460 women in the United States will be found to have invasive breast cancer in 2008. About 40,480 women will die from the
- [FDA's Label Rule Criticized As Youth Suicides Increase](https://iconicwoman.com/fda-black-box-warning/fdas-label-rule-criticized-as-youth-suicides-increase/) - Experts Suggest Link Between Warnings and Startling New Trend Suicide rates for preteens and teenagers increased sharply when the Food and Drug Administration slapped a "black box" warning on anti-depressants and doctors started writing fewer prescriptions for young people, according to federal data released Thursday. The FDA's warning, publicly debated in 2003 and enacted in
- [Research and Markets: Contraception Market Report 2007](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/research-and-markets-contraception-market-report-2007/) - Research and Markets has announced the addition of Contraception Market Report 2007 to their offering. The UK market for contraceptives, as evaluated in this report, comprises four main sectors: hormone-based products; barrier products; intra-uterine device (IUD) products and other methods. Hormone-based products is a publicly funded sector, is the largest sector, having overtaken barrier products,
- [HPV — A Problem of Public Health or Politics?](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/hpv-—-a-problem-of-public-health-or-politics/) - HPV in the United States and Developing Nations: A Problem of Public Health or Politics? The Global AIDS bill, signed into law on May 27, 2003 by President Bush [for full text: Library of Congress, search bill number, H.R. 1298.] requires an analysis of the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) in Sub-Saharan Africa and a
- [Menstruation and the Menstrual Cycle](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/menstruation-and-the-menstrual-cycle/) - Menstruation is a woman's monthly bleeding, also called a period... What is menstruation? What is the menstrual cycle? What happens during the menstrual cycle? What is a typical menstrual period like? What kinds of problems do women have with their periods? When does a girl usually get her first period? How long does a woman
- [A Critical Review of HPV Vaccine Efficacy](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/a-critical-review-of-hpv-vaccine-efficacy/) - Wall Street Journal Examines Efficacy Of HPV Vaccine Gardasil In Treating Precancerous Lesions, Preventing Cervical Cancer The Wall Street Journal on Monday examined the efficacy of Merck's human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil in treating precancerous lesions and preventing cervical cancer (Carreyrou, Wall Street Journal, 4/16). Gardasil in clinical trials has been shown to be 100% effective
- [Hormonal Humor](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/hormonal-humor/) - Wendy Aarons — an Austin Original I often read fellow Austin writer, Wendi Aarons’ Blog, “They're Not All Gems.” She has a slightly ‘twisted sister’ humor that never fails to make me smile and sometimes wonder what color the sky is in her world. Her March 5th, 2007 was too funny and insightful not to
- [Sleep Deprivation Blurs Moral Judgment](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/sleep-deprivation-blurs-moral-judgment/) - New Study Suggests Its Best to Sleep Before Tackling a Personal Dilemma An article written by Miranda Hitti, reviewed by Louise Chang, MD and published in WebMD Medical News this month, reports the findings of a recent U.S. Army study on sleep deprivation. Why should women care about an Army Study concerning sleep deprevation and
- [New Information Concerning Precocious Puberty](https://iconicwoman.com/your-bodyyour-self/new-information-concerning-precocious-puberty/) - Another Reason To Avoid Happy Meals... Early Puberty In Girls Due to Being Overweight As A Toddler US scientists have shown that being overweight as a toddler increases the chance that a girl will reach puberty early. The study from the University of Michigan's Mott Children's Hospital is published in the journal Pediatrics. Dr Joyce
- [Selling Sickness](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/selling-sickness/) - Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients. “Should be required reading for ALL women and girls!” "Selling Sickness pulls back the curtain on the politically-charged (and financially inspired) machinations of the pharmaceutical industry and explains the mass manipulation. It's a very disturbing book, but also well documented, well
- [VACCINE SAFETY GROUP RELEASES GARDASIL REACTION REPORT](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/vaccine-safety-group-releases-gardasil-reaction-report/) - Calls on FDA and CDC to Warn Doctors and Parents to Report to VAERS Washington, D.C. - The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) today released a new analysis of the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reports of serious health problems following HPV vaccination (Merck's GARDASIL) during the last six months of 2006. Out
- [Medicalization of Women's Natural Cycles Profitable for BARR Share-Holders](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/medicalization-of-womens-natural-cycles-profitable-for-barr-share-holders/) - “Pill Pimp” Market Strategy Targets Women At Every Stage Of Life Once again, Leslie Botha has been proven to be an accurate soothsayer. In her radio program, on her website and in her seminars, Leslie has pointed out that, Big Pharma is mirroring the successful marketing strategies of the American Cigarette Industry — lure the
- [Estrogen on Training Wheels](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/estrogen-on-training-wheels/) - Mothers' Exposure to Some Chemical Compounds Tied to Precocious Puberty For the daughters of women accidentally exposed to a fire retardant chemical nearly three decades ago, the biological clock seems to be speeding up . Precocious puberty is much more common among these young women, and a new study suggests that the change may be
- [Endometrial (Uterine) Cancer](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/endometrial-uterine-cancer/) - What is endometrial cancer? Endometrial cancer is the growth of abnormal cells in the lining of the uterus. The lining is called the endometrium. Endometrial cancer is also called cancer of the uterus, or uterine cancer. Endometrial cancer usually occurs in women older than 50. The good news is that it is usually cured when
- [Red Meat Linked To Breast Cancers](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/red-meat-linked-to-breast-cancers/) - New study suggests eating large amounts of red meat may double young women's breast cancer risk. US researchers writing in Archives of Internal Medicine looked at over 90,000 pre-menopausal women. Having one-and-a-half servings of red meat per day almost doubled the risk of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer compared to three or fewer per week. UK
- [Part 6:Does Our Toxic World Cause Breast Cancer?](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/part-6does-today’s-world-cause-breast-cancer/) - What about other risk factors? It may be awhile before scientists are able to nail down the environmental causes of breast cancer. But in the meantime, there’s evidence that plenty of other everyday risk factors, such as exercise, alcohol, and weight, come into play. The thread that connects most of these to breast cancer is
- [Part 5: Does Our Toxic World Cause Breast Cancer?](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/part-5-does-today’s-world-cause-breast-cancer/) - Avoiding everyday risks The truth is, it’s impossible to avoid all the things suspected of increasing breast cancer risk. It can seem overwhelming even to try. Inconvenient Women can focus on a few steps that can mean a big payoff; and for the skeptics and naysayers at least they couldn’t hurt. limit exposure to chlorine
- [Part 4: Does Our Toxic World Cause Breast Cancer?](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/part-4-does-today’s-world-cause-breast-cancer/) - Seeking a Safer World Now While encouraged by the increased scientific attention to environmental risks, breast cancer activists refuse to wait around until all the findings are in. They are insisting that policy makers begin acting on the precautionary principle by avoiding the use of potently harmful chemicals now. Last year, San Francisco and Berkeley
- [Part 3: Does Our Toxic World Cause Breast Cancer?](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/part3-does-today’s-world-cause-breast-cancer/) - Boomers grew up in a Toxic World In the early fifties, shoe stores that catered to children had foot X-ray box. Children placed their foot in the box and it would show your bones. Allegedly it helped sales people properly fit our new shoes. In reality most kids played with it – shoving in feet
- [Part 2: Does Our Toxic World Cause Breast Cancer?](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/part-2-does-today’s-world-cause-breast-cancer/) - Rachel’s Daughters Nancy Evans, produced a film called Rachel’s Daughters, which followed eight women with breast cancer as they visited prominent researchers and quizzed them about the roots of the disease. She and her collaborators grew increasingly frustrated as one expert after another was unable to offer definite answers, despite an abundance of suspected causes:
- [Does Our Toxic World Cause Breast Cancer?](https://iconicwoman.com/breast-cancer/does-today’s-world-cause-breast-cancer/) - I never thought very much about women’s health issues until I met Leslie Botha in 2002. My world was business, researching and writing. I was contented as one of Borden’s cows. I happily sat at my keyboard or in the research section of some library, using my brain, whilst my body atrophied into a pleasantly
- [Oral Contraceptives, HPV and Risk of Cervical Cancer](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/oral-contraceptives-hpv-and-risk-of-cervical-cancer/) - Global Research Sources—Asking Questions Ignored by FDA An analysis of case-control studies has found that use of oral contraceptives for ≥ 5 years in women with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is associated with an increased risk of cervical cancer. This confirms existing knowledge and emphasises the need for regular cervical screening of all women aged
- [Just Say "Know" to Prescription Drugs!](https://iconicwoman.com/prescription-drug-side-effects/just-say-know-to-prescription-drugs/) - Coalition of Advocates Launch Just Say "Know" to Prescription Drugs Campaign - Declaring October "Just Say Know month," effort aims to get one million people to take a second look at the drugs they are taking. A coalition of 10 organizations, advocates, healthcare professionals, academics and concerned citizens have launched a campaign to get one
- [Progestin Linked to Hearing Loss](https://iconicwoman.com/hrt-side-effects/progestin-linked-to-hearing-loss/) - In late 2004, Dr. Robert Frisina 1, associate chair, otolaryngology at the University of Rochester Medical School, reported his first findings on the link between Progestin and hearing loss in women who used HRT over a period of time. His study consisted of 64 postmenopausal women ages 60 to 86 taking estrogen, and estrogen plus
- [Health, Healing & Hormones —The Greatest Story Never Told™](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/health-healing-hormones-—the-greatest-story-never-told™/) - This article is reprinted with permission from Leslie Botha, Author, Trainer, and Counselor, and I’m proud to say, my Holy Hormones! writing partner. Health, Healing & Hormones —The Greatest Story Never Told™ "In our last issue, we carried an interview with Margaret Starbird contending that Mary Magdalene was in fact the Holy Grail...in this issue,
- [Is the HPV Vaccine the Highest and Best Use of Our Resources](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/is-the-hpv-vaccine-the-highest-and-best-use-of-our-resources/) - Overview: Breast Cancer Research/Treatment vs Merck’s Big Payday The furor of the FDA’s rapid approval of Merck HPV Vaccine (Gardasil) and the 'pre/post vaccine approval' marketing and legislative blitzkrieg by Merck is now turning into jaw-dropping sticker-shock. The cost of ‘immunizing’ over 21 million sixth-grade girls in the United States today, at $360 for a
- [Semen "May Fuel Cervical Cancer"](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/semen-may-fuel-cervical-cancer/) - The growth of cervical and womb cancers may be fueled by a hormone-like molecule in semen. The Medical Research Council team found that the exceptionally high levels of prostaglandin fueled tumor growth. They told the journals Endocrinology and Human Reproduction that women with either cancer should ask their partners to wear condoms during sex. But
- [If Men Could Menstrate](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/if-men-could-menstrate/) - Gloria Steinem, the great American feminist, wrote the very funny essay below, which originally appeared in the October 1978 issue of Ms. magazine. If Men Could Menstruate by Gloria Steinem A white minority of the world has spent centuries conning us into thinking that a white skin makes people superior - even though the only
- [HPV Testing Improves](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/hpv-testing-improves/) - Testing for human papillomavirus (HPV) may be a useful first step for cervical cancer screening in women younger than 35 years, preliminary findings indicate. Testing for HPV is better than standard cell testing at picking up pre-cancerous changes, but it is also more likely to yield false results. This is particularly true among young women,
- [European Approach to HPV Testing and Treatment](https://iconicwoman.com/cancer-research/european-approach-to-hpv-testing-and-treatment-2/) - Testing for HPV Testing for human papillomavirus (HPV) may be a useful first step for cervical cancer screening in women younger than 35 years, preliminary findings indicate. Testing for HPV is better than standard cell testing at picking up pre-cancerous changes, but it is also more likely to yield false results. This is particularly true
- [FDA to Clarify Conflict Rules for U.S. Drug Approvals](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/fda-to-clarify-conflict-rules-for-us-drug-approvals/) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to write new guidelines specifying when outside scientists and doctors serving on agency advisory panels should be disqualified because of conflicts of interest. The FDA announced today that it is considering whether to make more information available to the public from advisory committee members' financial disclosures. The panels
- [Who is Bankrolling the FDA and Why?](https://iconicwoman.com/fda-clinical-trials/who-is-bankrolling-the-fda-and-why/) - There has been no increase in congressional appropriations to the FDA from fiscal years 1986 through 2006. (1) FDA's Mission Statement The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit
- [Risk Factors Affect Parents’ Attitudes About STD Vaccinations](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-infection/risk-factors-affect-parents’-attitudes-about-std-vaccinations/) - My Opinion About The Following Study Abstract This 2003 study, funded by a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was one of several studies that “tested the waters” concerning parental attitudes about STD vaccine programs. If I were a cynical sort, I’d believe that if the results were more favorable to
- [Incidence of Cervical Cancer In The United States](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/incidence-of-cervical-cancer-in-the-united-states/) - How Cervical Cancer Is Detected 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. Between 1975 and 2001 use of the Pap
- [MERCK & CO, GARDASIL®  Product Information](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/merck-co-gardasil®-product-information/) - Patient Information about GARDASIL® (pronounced “gard-Ah-sill”) Generic name: [Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (Types 6, 11, 16, 18) Recombinant Vaccine] Read this information with care before you or your child gets GARDASIL*. You or your child will need 3 doses of the vaccine. It is important to read this leaflet when you receive each dose. This leaflet
- [MERCK'S GARDASIL VACCINE NOT PROVEN SAFE FOR LITTLE GIRLS](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/mercks-gardasil-vaccine-not-proven-safe-for-little-girls/) - National Vaccine Information Center Criticizes FDA for Fast Tracking Licensure for immediate release June 27, 2006 Washington, D.C. - The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling on the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to just say "no" on June 29 to recommending "universal use" of Merck's Gardasil vaccine in all pre-adolescent girls.
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- [FDA Press Release — HPV (human papillomavirus)](https://iconicwoman.com/hpv-infection/fda-press-release-—-hpv-human-papillomavirus/) - What is HPV? HPV (human papillomavirus) is a sexually transmitted virus. It is passed on through genital contact (such as vaginal and anal sex). It is also passed on by skin-to-skin contact. At least 50% of people who have had sex will have HPV at some time in their lives. Why haven't I heard of
- [FDA Licenses New Vaccine for Prevention of Cervical Cancer and Other Diseases in Females Caused by Human Papillomavirus](https://iconicwoman.com/uncategorized/fda-licenses-new-vaccine-for-prevention-of-cervical-cancer-and-other-diseases-in-females-caused-by-human-papillomavirus/) - Rapid Approval Marks Major Advancement in Public Health FDA Press Release June 8, 2006 Media Inquiries: Julie Zawisza, 301-827-6242 Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the approval of Gardasil, the first vaccine developed to prevent cervical cancer, precancerous genital lesions and genital warts due to human papillomavirus (HPV) types 6,
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- [Statistic Breakdown of Indiana University School of Medicine Primary HPV  Study](https://iconicwoman.com/cervical-cancer/statistic-breakdown-of-primary-hpv-indiana-university-school-of-medicine/) - Study reveals high infection rate in teens for virus linked to cervical cancer Based on 60 study participants from three primary-care clinics in Indianapolis HPV rates reported in previous research have been underestimated. The latest study indicates four out of five sexually active adolescent females are infected with the human papillomavirus (HPV). Human papillomavirus is
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- [Iconic Women Share Words of Wisdom](https://iconicwoman.com/menopause/iconic-women-share-words-of-wisdom/) - Gloria Graham Gloria is a writer who has been researching and offering workshops on Menopause: A Women's Rite of Passage for the past 5 years. A 53 year-old post-menopausal woman she has been running her workshops in New South Wales Australia and is open to invitations to other areas to carry on her work. Her
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- [Syphilis](https://iconicwoman.com/std-infection/syphilis/) - Syphilis, a genital ulcerative disease, causes significant complications if untreated and facilitates the transmission of HIV. Untreated early syphilis in pregnant women results in perinatal death in up to 40% of cases and, if acquired during the four years preceding pregnancy, may lead to infection of the fetus in 80% of cases.1 Incidence of Syphilis:
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- [Genital Herpes](https://iconicwoman.com/std-infection/genital-herpes/) - Genital Herpes What is genital herpes? How common is genital herpes? How can I get genital herpes? What are the symptoms of genital herpes? Can genital herpes come back? How do I know for sure if I have genital herpes? What is the treatment for genital herpes? Is there a cure for genital herpes? Does
- [Gonorrhea](https://iconicwoman.com/std-infection/gonorrhea/) - Gonorrhea What is gonorrhea? How do you get gonorrhea? Who is at risk for gonorrhea? What are the symptoms of gonorrhea? Are there tests for gonorrhea? How is gonorrhea treated? What happens if gonorrhea isn't treated? Can gonorrhea cause problems during pregnancy? How can I keep from getting gonorrhea? See also… Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Overview
- [Chlamydia](https://iconicwoman.com/std-infection/31/) - Chlamydia What is chlamydia and how common is it? How do you get chlamydia? What are the symptoms of chlamydia? How is chlamydia diagnosed? Who should get tested for chlamydia? What is the treatment for chlamydia? What should I do if I have chlamydia? What health problems can result from untreated chlamydia? How can chlamydia
- [Bacterial Vaginosis](https://iconicwoman.com/std-infection/23/) - Bacterial Vaginosis What is bacterial vaginosis (BV)? What causes BV? What are the signs of BV? How can I find out if I have BV? How is BV treated? Is it safe to treat pregnant women who have BV? Can BV cause medical problems? How can I prevent BV? See also… Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Overview
- [STD Overview](https://iconicwoman.com/std-infection/22/) - Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Overview What is a sexually transmitted disease (STD)? How many people have STDs? How do you get an STD? What are the symptoms of STDs? How do you get tested for STDs? Can STDs cause health problems? How are STDs treated? How do STDs affect pregnant women and their babies? What
- [Irregular or lengthy Menstrual Periods A Marker for Diabetes](https://iconicwoman.com/diabetes/irregular-or-lengthy-menstrual-periods-a-marker-for-diabetes/) - In the Journal of the American Medical Association Dr. Caren G. Solomon, an associate physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and leader of a team reported that Women who have irregular or very long menstrual cycles have a higher risk of developing diabetes. "Over an eight-year follow-up, the risk was twice as high,
- [The Merck Druggernaut: The Inside Story of a Pharmaceutical Giant](https://iconicwoman.com/big-pharma-watch/the-merck-druggernaut-the-inside-story-of-a-pharmaceutical-giant/) - The Following is a book review of The Merck Druggernaut: The Inside Story of a Pharmaceutical Giant, by Fran Hawthorne. "...this ground-breaking book shows the ‘early-warning’ cracks in a system that lead even the once admired Merck to the Dark Side." This book was one of the first to suggest that something was not quite

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- [FEMINISM AND PROFIT IN AMERICAN HOSPITALS The Corporate Construction of Women’s Health Centers](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1682/?tmstv=1783735908) - Paper by JAN E. THOMAS, Kenyon College and MARY K. ZIMMERMAN, University of Kansas Provides a critical analysis of the evolution and impact of hospital-sponsored women’s health centers. Using original data gathered from interviews, participant observation,and content analysis of documents and brochures, the authors describe the development of four models of hospital-sponsored women’s health centers
- [A Judicial Watch Special Report: Examining the FDA’s HPV Vaccine Records](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1680/?tmstv=1783735908) - Detailing the Approval Process, Side-Effects, Safety Concerns and Marketing Practices of a Large-Scale Public Health Experiment. This Judicial Watch Special Report is an analysis of records obtained from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concerning a recent vaccine called Gardasil. Gardasil helps protect against four types of human papillomavirus (HPV). The vaccine was approved in
- [Society of Gynecologic Oncologists Issues White Paper on HPV Vaccine's Impact on Cervical Cancer Prevention](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1678/?tmstv=1783735908) - The Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (SGO) has published the first in a series of four papers on a variety of cervical cancer issues and topics that were the focus of its Forum "The Future Strategies for Cervical Cancer Prevention: What Do We Need to Do Now to Prepare," held last September in Chicago, Illinois. The
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- [Flu Shot Fact Sheet](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1674/?tmstv=1783735908) - "By 1853, Parliament began passing laws to make the untested vaccine compulsory throughout the British Empire. Other countries of Europe followed suit. Once the economic implications of compulsory vaccinations were realized, few dared to disagree. Then, as now, the media were controlled by the vaccine manufacturers and the government, who stood to make huge money
- [Suspected Adverse Reaction Analysis Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1672/?tmstv=1783735908) - Medical Health Products Regulatory Agency an Executive Agency of the Department of Health, UK This report summarises the reports of adverse reactions suspected to have been caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for which information on the specific brand administered (whether Cervarix or Gardasil) is currently unavailable. This includes reports received up to 1 July
- [Safety of Adjuvanted Influenza Vaccines](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1670/?tmstv=1783735908) - Summary of: WHO Virtual Consultation on the Safety of Adjuvanted Influenza Vaccines Held by teleconference on June 3 2009 15:30-17:30 CET A consultation was held by teleconference to review the safety of adjuvanted influenza vaccines. The purpose of this consultation was two-fold: (1) To review known and theoretical safety concerns associated with using adjuvants in
- [USPPI  Patient Information about  GARDASIL®](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1668/?tmstv=1783735908) - 9883611 USPPI Patient Information about GARDASIL® (pronounced “gard-Ah-sill”) Generic name: [Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent (Types 6, 11, 16, and 18) Vaccine, Recombinant] Read this information with care before getting GARDASIL. You (the person getting GARDASIL) will need 3 doses of the vaccine. It is important to read this leaflet when you get each dose. This leaflet
- [Hightlights Of Gardasil Prescribing Information](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1666/?tmstv=1783735908) - These highlights do not include all the information needed to use GARDASIL safely and effectively. Limitations of GARDASIL Use and Effectiveness • Not all vulvar and vaginal cancers are caused by HPV, and GARDASIL protects only against those vulvar and vaginal cancers caused by HPV 16 and 18. (1.2) • Women who receive GARDASIL should
- [GAO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REPORT](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1656/?tmstv=1783735908) - GAO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REPORT FDA Needs to Establish Key Plans and Processes for Guiding Systems Modernization Efforts
- [Information Pertaining to Labeling Revision for Gardasil](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1664/?tmstv=1783735908) - Vaccines, Blood & Biologics Information Pertaining to Labeling Revision for Gardasil Reminder to HealthCare Providers: 15-minute Observation Period Needed After Vaccination On June 9, 2009, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a revised label for Gardasil, a vaccine to protect against cervical, vulvar and vaginal cancers caused by Human Papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and
- [HPV vaccine (GARDASIL)  Advice from the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1662/?tmstv=1783735908) - Human papillomavirus vaccine (GARDASIL) Advice from the Therapeutic Goods Administration Updated 5 May 2009 Australia was one of the first countries to roll out a national cervical cancer immunisation campaign using Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccine that protects young women from the strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) that cause 70% of cervical cancers.
- [Human Papillomavirus Vaccination — Reasons for Caution](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1660/?tmstv=1783735908) - Despite great expectations and promising results of clinical trials, we still lack sufficient evidence of an effective vaccine against cervical cancer. Several strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) can cause cervical cancer, and two vaccines directed against the currently most important oncogenic strains (i.e., the HPV-16 and HPV-18 serotypes) have been developed. That is the good
- [Rubicon iPhone User Survey](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1658/?tmstv=1783735908) - The Apple iPhone: Successes and Challenges for the Mobile Industry — A study of iPhone users How is it being used? What effect is it having on customers and on the technology industry? To help answer those questions, Rubicon Consulting conducted a detailed survey of 460 randomly-selected iPhone users in the US. This report summarizes
- [Treatise on Gardasil from the United States](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1654/?tmstv=1783735909) - Authors: Cynthia Janak, Research Journalist, President of an International Coalition, Leslie Botha Researcher and Broadcast Journalist, Vice-President of an International Organization, H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik, Research Analyst This paper will focus on five areas: (1) Compromised immune systems in adolescents and potential vaccine reaction; (2) Exposure of HPV to infants and children prior to inoculation; raising
- [United States Concern for Europe with regards to Cervarix HPV vaccine.](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1652/?tmstv=1783735909) - Authors: Cynthia Janak, Research Journalist, President of an International Coalition, Leslie Botha Researcher and Broadcast Journalist, Vice-President of an International Organization This paper will focus on four areas: (1) European Public Assessment Report, (26/11/2008 Cervarix-H-C-721-II-04), (2) Cervarix© Product Information (PI_Cervarix.pdf.), (3) MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) March, 2009 and May, 2009. (4) Media
- [United Kingdom Concerns Regarding HPV-GM Vaccines](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1650/?tmstv=1783735909) - Authors: Freda M Birrell and Christina England, Student Journalist writing for the American Chronicle, New Media Journal and Blitz Weekly on adverse reactions to vaccines. The following points are the serious concerns of the above authors from the United Kingdom (representing Scotland and England) who have researched the Cervarix vaccine in depth. They have noted
- [The Dutch Cervarix Concerns](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1648/?tmstv=1783735909) - Annelies Witlam and Janny Stokvis The Netherlands We probably speak a different language than you do. Not only because we're Dutch, but also because we're not scientists, medical specialists or journalists. We consider ourselves professors in everyday life and even more, we're mothers. It was September 2008 when we first read an article about Gardasil.
- [RKI One Mother's Plea](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1646/?tmstv=1783735909) - Karen Maynor of New Mexico lost her daughter, Megan Hild to the Gardasil vaccine on November 15, 2008. Megan was a healthy, vital 20-year-old young woman with great aspirations –and no history of previous medical problems. Megan had just finished the second in the series of the Gardasil vaccination in September of 2008. On November
- [Suspected Adverse Reaction Analysis CERVARIX Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1644/?tmstv=1783735909) - This report summarises the adverse reactions suspected to have been caused by Cervarix human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in the UK. This includes reports received between 14 April 2008 and 4 March 2009. These reports have been voluntarily submitted to the MHRA by healthcare professionals and members of the public via the Yellow Card Scheme (visit
- [VRBPAC Background Document - GardasilTM HPV Quadrivalent Vaccine](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1642/?tmstv=1783735909)
- [Clinical Review of Biologics License Application Supplement for Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent (Types 6, 11, 16, 18) Vaccine, Recombinant (Gardasil®) to extend indication for prevention of vaginal](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1640/?tmstv=1783735909)
- [Clinical Review of Biologics License Application for Human Papillomavirus 6, 11, 16, 18 L1 Virus Like Particle Vaccine (S. cerevisiae) (STN 125126 GARDASIL), manufactured by Merck, Inc.](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1638/?tmstv=1783735909)
- [Australasian Journal of Bone & Joint Medicine](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1636/?tmstv=1783735909) - A fake medical journal that Merck paid an undisclosed sum to Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a peer-reviewed medical journal, but contained only reprinted or summarized articles--most of which presented data favorable to Merck products.
- [Australasian Journal of Bone & Joint Medicine](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1634/?tmstv=1783735909) - A fake medical journal that Merck paid an undisclosed sum to Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a peer-reviewed medical journal, but contained only reprinted or summarized articles--most of which presented data favorable to Merck products.
- [Merck PAC Money To States (From Lobby Watch)](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1632/?tmstv=1783735909) - List of Merck Lobbying Money spent in Texas, and summary amounts from Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Iowa.
- [USPPI Patient Information about GARDASIL®](http://iconicwoman.com/download/1630/?tmstv=1783735909) - Package Insert (PDF - 350 KB) - Approved: September 12, 2008

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- [Mammograms](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/mammograms/)
- [Menopause](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/menopause/)
- [PAP Test](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/pap-test/)
- [Prescription Drug Side Effects](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/prescription-drug-side-effects/)
- [Proactive Nutrition](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/proactive-nutrition/)
- [Product Recall](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/product-recall/)
- [Reproductive Health](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/reproductive-health/)
- [STD Infection](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/std-infection/)
- [Stroke](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/stroke/)
- [Take Action!](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/take-action/)
- [VAERS](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/vaers/)
- [Virginity](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/virginity/)
- [Weight Gain](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/weight-gain/)
- [Work Place Issues](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/work-place-issues/)
- [Your Body/Your Self](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/your-bodyyour-self/)
- [Biotech Industry](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/biotech-industry/)
- [Drug Approvals](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/drug-approvals/)
- [FDA](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/fda/)
- [Women's Health](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/womens-health/)
- [Sexual Dysfunction](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/womens-health/sexual-dysfunction-womens-health-and-wellness/)
- [Hormone Cycle](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/hormone-cycle/)
- [vaginal yeast infection](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/vaginal-yeast-infection/)
- [Sleep Loss](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/sleep-loss/)
- [genital warts](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/genital-warts/)
- [Guillain-Barre Syndrome](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/guillain-barre-syndrome/)
- [Unwanted Pregnancy](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/unwanted-pregnancy/)
- [Clinical Trials](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/clinical-trials/)
- [MERCK Watch](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/merck-watch/)
- [Domestic Violence](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/domestic-violence/)
- [Gardasil](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/gardasil/)
- [Women's Rights](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/womens-rights/)
- [Vaccination Policy](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/vaccination-policy/)
- [National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/national-vaccine-injury-compensation-program/)
- [cáncer de cuello uterino](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/cancer-de-cuello-uterino/)
- [World Health Organization](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/world-health-organization/)
- [Cervarix](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/cervarix/)
- [FDA Product Recall](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/fda-product-recall/)
- [Medical Technology](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/medical-technology/)
- [Mandatory HPV Vaccination Policies](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/mandatory-hpv-vaccination-policies/)
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- [Yeast Infection](https://iconicwoman.com/topics/yeast-infection/)
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- [FDA Press Release](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/fda-press-release/)
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- [Woman's World](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/womans-world/)
- [Woman’s Health](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/woman’s-health/)
- [Cancer](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/cancer/)
- [Childern at Risk](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/childern-at-risk/)
- [HPV](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/hpv/)
- [Knowing Your Body](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/knowing-your-body/)
- [Our Government — Not Protecting](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/our-government-—-not-protecting/)
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- [Sleep Cycle](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/sleep-cycle/)
- [Stoke Risk](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/stoke-risk/)
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- [Vaginal Cancer](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/vaginal-cancer/)
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- [Woman's Health](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/womans-health/)
- [Women's Health](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/womens-health/)
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- [Avandia](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/avandia/)
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- [Vioxx](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/vioxx/)
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- [strokes](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/strokes/)
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- [heart attacks](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/heart-attacks/)
- [heart attack](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/heart-attack/)
- [British Menopause Society](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/british-menopause-society/)
- [Leslie Botha](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/leslie-botha/)
- [the British Medical Journal](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/the-british-medical-journal/)
- [sexually transmitted disease](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/sexually-transmitted-disease/)
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- [menstrual cycle](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/menstrual-cycle/)
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- [Harvard Medical School](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/harvard-medical-school/)
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- [Cardiff University](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/cardiff-university/)
- [American Dietetic Association](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/american-dietetic-association/)
- [dehydration](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/dehydration/)
- [Biogen Idec Inc.](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/biogen-idec-inc/)
- [Cymbalta](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/cymbalta/)
- [AstraZeneca PLC](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/astrazeneca-plc/)
- [Seroquel](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/seroquel/)
- [tumor](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/tumor/)
- [melanoma](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/melanoma/)
- [Johnson & Johnson](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/johnson-johnson/)
- [jared.favole@dowjones.co](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/jaredfavoledowjonesco/)
- [possible safety concern](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/possible-safety-concern/)
- [Eli Lilly and Company](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/eli-lilly-and-company/)
- [Food and Drug Administration](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/food-and-drug-administration/)
- [Tony Jewell](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/tony-jewell/)
- [Provide Signs of Possibility Of Adverse Effect
By JARED A. FAVOLE
Wall Street Journal](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/provide-signs-of-possibility-of-adverse-effectby-jared-a-favolewall-street-journal/)
- [arthritis](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/arthritis/)
- [cardiac arrest](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/cardiac-arrest/)
- [Paul Seligman](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/paul-seligman/)
- [Oxycontin](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/oxycontin/)
- [Tysabri](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/tysabri/)
- [Eli Lilly & Co.](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/eli-lilly-co/)
- [skin cancer](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/skin-cancer/)
- [JARED A. FAVOLE](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/jared-a-favole/)
- [Elan Corp.](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/elan-corp/)
- [Elan Corp PLC](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/elan-corp-plc/)
- [wellness](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/wellness/)
- [pharmaceutical](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/pharmaceutical/)
- [Cynthia Janak](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/cynthia-janak/)
- [paranoia](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/paranoia/)
- [H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/h-sandra-chevalier-batik/)
- [cooked  food](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/cooked-food/)
- [Surgery](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/surgery/)
- [Oxygen therapy](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/oxygen-therapy/)
- [important food supply](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/important-food-supply/)
- [Radiation](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/radiation/)
- [nutritional deficiencies](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/nutritional-deficiencies/)
- [apoptosis](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/apoptosis/)
- [Chemotherapy](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/chemotherapy/)
- [antibiotics](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/antibiotics/)
- [poisoning](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/poisoning/)
- [American Association for Cancer Research](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/american-association-for-cancer-research/)
- [National Cancer Institute](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/national-cancer-institute/)
- [Cancer Prevention](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/cancer-prevention/)
- [physical activity energy expenditure](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/physical-activity-energy-expenditure/)
- [colon cancers](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/colon-cancers/)
- [obesity](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/obesity/)
- [United States](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/united-states/)
- [D.C.](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/dc/)
- [cardiovascular disease](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/cardiovascular-disease/)
- [U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/us-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention/)
- [infant gas](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/infant-gas/)
- [anti-gas medicine](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/anti-gas-medicine/)
- [Infants](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/infants/)
- [retail stores](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/retail-stores/)
- [Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals Company](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/merck-consumer-pharmaceuticals-company/)
- [Louise Bernikow](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/louise-bernikow/)
- [Leslie Carol Botha](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/leslie-carol-botha/)
- [Department of Health and Human Services](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/department-of-health-and-human-services/)
- [Merck](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/merck/)
- [Merck & Co.](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/merck-co/)
- [Inc.](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/inc/)
- [Congress](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/congress/)
- [National Vaccine Information Center](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/national-vaccine-information-center/)
- [mass vaccination](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/mass-vaccination/)
- [Barbara Loe Fisher](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/barbara-loe-fisher/)
- [vaccination](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/vaccination/)
- [The Wall Street Journal](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/the-wall-street-journal/)
- [Vermont Supreme Court](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/vermont-supreme-court/)
- [Diana Levine](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/diana-levine/)
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- [New England Journal](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/new-england-journal/)
- [Kaiser Daily](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/kaiser-daily/)
- [Wyeth](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/wyeth/)
- [Wall Street Journal](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/wall-street-journal/)
- [dangerous product](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/dangerous-product/)
- [Stephen Breyer](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/stephen-breyer/)
- [Vermont](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/vermont/)
- [Bert Rein](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/bert-rein/)
- [Kaiser Family Foundation](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/kaiser-family-foundation/)
- [nausea](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/nausea/)
- [Phenergan](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/phenergan/)
- [Bush administration](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/bush-administration/)
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- [mass immunization](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/mass-immunization/)
- [Vanderbilt University School of Medicine](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/vanderbilt-university-school-of-medicine/)
- [Oates Institute for Experimental Therapeutics](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/oates-institute-for-experimental-therapeutics/)
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- [energy balance](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/energy-balance/)
- [energy machinery](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/energy-machinery/)
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- [food](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/food/)
- [energy](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/energy/)
- [fever](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/fever/)
- [Merck & Co. Inc.](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/merck-co-inc/)
- [pain](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/pain/)
- [vaccines](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/vaccines/)
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- [federal government](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/federal-government/)
- [Laura Parsons](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/laura-parsons/)
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- [media outlets](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/media-outlets/)
- [Michael McLaren](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/michael-mclaren/)
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- [complementary therapies](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/complementary-therapies/)
- [breast cancer treatment](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/breast-cancer-treatment/)
- [inflammation](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/inflammation/)
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- [Department of Defense](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/department-of-defense/)
- [Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/chemical-industry-institute-of-toxicology/)
- [National Academy of Sciences](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/national-academy-of-sciences/)
- [Safe Drinking Water](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/safe-drinking-water/)
- [vaginal cancers](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/vaginal-cancers/)
- [wrong solution](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/wrong-solution/)
- [cancers](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/cancers/)
- [Syncope](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/syncope/)
- [vaccinations](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/vaccinations/)
- [injection site](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/injection-site/)
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- [cancer of the cervix](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/cancer-of-the-cervix/)
- [neurological disorder](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/neurological-disorder/)
- [muscle weakness](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/muscle-weakness/)
- [Merck and Co.](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/merck-and-co/)
- [urinary incontinence](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/urinary-incontinence/)
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- [aneurysm](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/aneurysm/)
- [Harvard University](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/harvard-university/)
- [American Stroke Association](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/american-stroke-association/)
- [David Sherman](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/david-sherman/)
- [transient         ischemic attacks](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/transient-ischemic-attacks/)
- [arteriovenous malformation](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/arteriovenous-malformation/)
- [Harvard](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/harvard/)
- [University of Texas Health Science Center](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/university-of-texas-health-science-center/)
- [heart disease](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/heart-disease/)
- [Medical imaging devices](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/medical-imaging-devices/)
- [Medical imaging](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/medical-imaging/)
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- [prostate cancer](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/prostate-cancer/)
- [cardiovascular diseases](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/cardiovascular-diseases/)
- [Center for Drug Evaluation and Research](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/center-for-drug-evaluation-and-research/)
- [Aggressive pharmaceutical advertising](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/aggressive-pharmaceutical-advertising/)
- [pharmaceutical world](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/pharmaceutical-world/)
- [ELISABETH ROSENTHAL](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/elisabeth-rosenthal/)
- [GlaxoSmithKline PLC](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/glaxosmithkline-plc/)
- [Sanofi Aventis](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/sanofi-aventis/)
- [Sanofi-Aventis S.A.](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/sanofi-aventis-sa/)
- [care for cervical cancer](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/care-for-cervical-cancer/)
- [precancerous conditions](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/precancerous-conditions/)
- [U.S. Preventive Services Task Force](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/us-preventive-services-task-force/)
- [Cancer Society](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/cancer-society/)
- [National Center for Health Statistics](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/national-center-for-health-statistics/)
- [Agency for Healthcare Research](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/agency-for-healthcare-research/)
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- [FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research](https://iconicwoman.com/tags/fdas-center-for-drug-evaluation-and-research/)
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