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Merck sued over mumps vaccine research
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, June 25, 2012 Contact: Vaccine Safety Council of Minnesota – Wayne Rohde 651-705-5030 / 405-973-7049 Merck sued over mumps vaccine research Virologists claim “improper testing and data falsification”; $$ cost to U.S. for fraud could be in hundreds of millions ST. PAUL, MINN. – Two virologists have filed a federal lawsuit…
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…
Read MoreA License to Kill? Part 3: After Gardasil’s Launch, More Victims, More Bad Safety Analysis and a Revolving Door Culture
By Mark Blaxill In parts 1 (HERE) and 2 (HERE) of this series, Age of Autism identified a disturbing pattern of conflicts within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) regarding Merck’s Gardasil vaccine. In an unprecedented “public-private partnership,” researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) patented the technology for the “virus-like particles”…
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