Against Compulsory Vaccination: Why HPV Vaccines are Dangerous to the Lives of Girls, Young Women and Everyone Else: 1
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Immediately after reading about the new cervical cancer screening guidelines , which recommend delaying pap smears and having them less often, a friend sent me an e-mail reading: "I mean, should this month's headlines be summed up as, 'New medical guidelines recommend that women get a lot less healthcare than they used to?'" Indeed, this advice comes on the heels of the U.S. Preventive Services...
findingDulcinea (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
New screening guidelines for cervical cancer say girls can wait until age 21 to begin Pap tests, though it is unclear how these recommendations will impact current HPV vaccination guidelines.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Starting Dec. 14, the U.S. will no longer require female immigrants seeking permanent resident status to be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports. The new rule revises July 2008 guidelines that required female immigrants ages 11 through 26 seeking legal U.S.
NewsInferno (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Gardasil or other HPV vaccination will no longer be a requirement for immigrant girls and women seeking a green card, according to the Associated Press (AP). Currently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requires that all immigrants filing for a green card must receive a variety of shots; the HPV vaccine is [...]
Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
One more setback for Merck. Immigrant girls and women must no longer get vaccinated against the human papillomavirus in order to get their green cards. Starting Dec. 14, the HPV vaccine won’t be on the list of immunizations female immigrants ages 11 to 26 must receive before becoming legal permanent residents, the Associated Press reports. The [...]
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "DeGette: Stupak Agenda Is Much Wider Restrictions on Abortion," Brian Beutler, Talking Points Memo: Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) "takes issue" with Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.
ex-Liberal in Hollywood (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
AHRP and Taragana report that the CDC will no longer require immigrant girls and women to be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV). The CDC's discriminatory administrative directive MANDATING immigrant girls who posed no risk to the community to be vaccinated with Merck's HPV Gardasil vaccine was put into effect, July, 2008: The CDC's newly adopted criteria to determine which vaccines
icWales (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
PARENTS are being urged to have their daughters vaccinated against a virus that causes cervical cancer. A new campaign has been launched as the HPV vaccination programme moves into its second year.
Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
by Marya Zilberberg, MD, MPH The other day I re-tweeted a tweet from someone whose Twitter activity I enjoy very much. I like where his links take me, and I appreciate the intellectual and emotional honesty of his own writing. The message I re-tweeted was about Gardasil, Merck’s HPV vaccine marketed in the US. Diane [...] Posted at KevinMD.com . Stay updated and subscribe , follow me on Twitter...
Obesity and the Salt Connection (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age of 15. Dr. Harper, director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
A new vaccine designed to stimulate an immune response against a cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV-16) can eliminate chronic infection by the virus and may cause regression of precancerous genital lesions in women who receive the vaccine.
SciScoop Science Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
There is an immense anti-vaccine movement against which healthcare workers and others are having to rally to prevent the spread of disinformation. SciScoop asked a cancer expert to comment on the claims that HPV vaccination is a pharma scam. The HPV vaccine against a sexually transmitted virus that causes a significant proportion of cervical cancer cases [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Merck is the developer of the HPV vaccine Gardasil. The company has an independent website, gardasil.com, devoted to explaining the product, complete with social marketing...
War On You (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-27692-LA-County-Libertarian-Examiner~y2009m11d5-vaccine-poison Most people know about the dangers of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil, which is known to cause spontaneous abortions, massive wart outbreaks, seizures, paralysis and death. Texas governor Rick Perry faced great opposition when he tried to require girls to get the shot. Inadequate attention,...
Wash Park Prophet (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The basic theory of a vaccine is that if you build up your immune system to fight a virus before you get the virus, that you can prevent yourself from being infected. A new vaccine for the most deadly strain of HPV , which causes cervical cancer and genital lesions, reduced or eliminated HPV symptoms in 14 of 20 already HPV infected and symptomatic women who received it in a Dutch study. The other...
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