Posts Tagged ‘gardasil’
Update: Japan and HPV Vaccines
[SaneVax: More than half of the 3.28 million citizens of Japan injected with Gardasil or Cervarix reported adverse reactions. The Ministry of Health, Industry and Welfare rescinded their recommendation for both vaccines pending the outcome of investigations into the cause of these new medical conditions. Governments around the world should follow Japan’s example. Medical consumers…
Read MoreA License to Kill? Part 1: How A Public-Private Partnership Made the Government Merck’s Gardasil Partner
By Mark Blaxill “Perhaps no other recent product on the market demonstrates successful health care technology transfer better than the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, produced by Merck & Co. and approved by the FDA in June 2006,” proclaimed a recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) newsletter. In a February 23, 2007 article entitled “From…
Read MoreA License to Kill? Part 2: Who Guards Gardasil’s Guardians?
By Mark Blaxill In the first part of this report (HERE), Age of Autism identified a pattern of conflict of interest at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) involving Merck’s Gardasil vaccine. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) invented critical technology for the “virus-like particles” (or VLPs) that were used in the…
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