GARDASIL

Source: abclocal.go.com --- 15 days ago
The human papillomavirus vaccine can be used to prevent cervical cancer. ...

Source: biotech.about.com --- 3 days ago
You can't go anywhere these days without seeing a poster promoting vaccination against Human Papillomavirus (HPV) for prevention of the infection causing genital warts and, more importantly, cervical cancer. One... ...

Source: online.wsj.com --- 15 days ago
A new study suggests that giving Merck's cervical-cancer vaccine GARDASIL to women through their mid-20s may not be worth the price, despite U.S. recommendations that this age group receive the costly shot. ...

Source: www.medicinenet.com --- 15 days ago
Title: GARDASIL HPV Vaccine FAQ Category: Doctor's Views Created: 8/21/2008 Last Editorial Review: 8/21/2008 ...

Source: www.medicinenet.com --- 15 days ago
Title: GARDASIL (HPV Vaccine) Category: Medications Created: 8/21/2008 Last Editorial Review: 8/21/2008 ...

Source: seekingalpha.com --- 15 days ago
Wall Street Weather submits: “Merck lobbied every opinion leader, women’s group, medical society, politicians, and went directly to the people – it created a sense of panic that says you have to have this vaccine now.” - Dr. Diane Harper, professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and a principal investigator on the clinical trial of GARDASIL, to The New York Times An editorial accompanying a study published by The New England Journal of Medicine (“Human Papillomavirus Vaccination - Reasons for Caution”) by Charlotte J. Haug, M.D., Ph.D), questioned the “lack of sufficient evidence of an effective vaccine against cervical cancer.” Complete Story » ...

Source: seekingalpha.com --- 8 days ago
Mike Huckman submits: In the current monster-sized issue of Vogue , my producer, Ruth, while killing time on the Delta shuttle on our way from New York to Boston for a shoot this week, uncovered a blogworthy story buried in the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pages of fashion ads. It represents a whole new idea in the world of direct-to-consumer [DTC] drug advertising. Merck (MRK) has recently talked about how difficult it's been to sell its GARDASIL vaccine for sexually-transmitted disease and cervical cancer to 19-to-26-year-old women. The company's trying everything. Earlier this summer I blogged about how MRK was advertising the shots to captive audiences going to see the "Sex and the City" movie. Well, now it's taking another new tack to turn GARDASIL into gold: GARDASIL jewelry. Yep. You read that right. GARDASIL jewelry. Complete Story » ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 7 days ago
New York Times Aug 29 2008 8:31PM GMT ...

Source: www.mlive.com --- 4 days ago
FLINT, Michigan -- Sammie and Matia White thought they were following the law when they got their 17-year-old daughter vaccinated with GARDASIL. Question of the Day: "The doctor told my wife it was mandatory. She said our daughter had to... ...

Source: www.dbtechno.com --- 3 days ago
Washington (dbTechno) - According to a new study, young Australian women who received the cervical cancer vaccine GARDASIL were more likely to have an allergic reaction. The study was carried out by a team of Australian researchers. The team, led by Dr. Julia Brotherton of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, looked at over 100,000 young women. All [...] ...

Source: www.bakersfield.com --- 1 day ago
First we saw the Aug. 17 Parade magazine endorsing GARDASIL, followed by a news article quoting a medical journal stating the vaccine is not worth the cost. ...

Source: www.newsinferno.com --- 3 days ago
GARDASIL, the Merck and Co. vaccine approved to target the human papillomavirus (HPV), is again at the epicenter of controversy. Australian researchers are reporting that young women in Australia who received GARDASIL to prevent cervical cancer were five to 20 times more likely to suffer rare and severe allergic reaction versus other girls who received [...] ...

Source: www.pharmalot.com --- 9 days ago
First, there was the GARDASIL beach towel, an attractive terry velour model that advertised to beachgoers that you’re free of a sexually transmitted disease. A nifty way to tout the advantages of the HPV vaccine. Now, Merck is trying a new way to grab the attention of teenagers and younger adult women with a specially created [...] ...

Source: www.fiercebiotech.com --- 15 days ago
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine questions the cost-effectiveness of GARDASIL in older women, saying that the payback is reduced by their increased exposure to the virus that causes cervical cancer. But the team of researchers from Harvard School of Public Health also confirmed that the vaccine is cost effective among pre-adolescent girls because of their reduced exposure to the virus. Merck, which makes the vaccine and markets it around the world, quickly disputed the study, saying that its own economic models indicate that the vaccine provides a real payback when used for women. Report ...

Source: www.technicianonline.com --- 8 days ago
I am writing in response to the article entitled "Ignore advertising hypes" by Catie Pike Aug. 25, 2008. I'd like to take this opportunity to examine the study that questioned the cost effectiveness of GARDASIL and give some facts on the safely of the vaccine. ...

Source: www.healthnews.com --- 16 days ago
Is GARDASIL the food bunker of the new millennium? Way back in 1999, you knew someone who was nervous that their bank account would be destroyed, their perishables perished, and time as they knew it wiped out at midnight on December 31st. When nothing happened you could hear the big sigh of relief, and buyers' remorse, of everyone who stocked up their homes for weeks with dried foods and bottled water. In mid-2006, a drug was approved to vaccinate young girls from the danger of the human-papillomavirus, or HPV—the main cause of cervical cancer in women—and the media went nuts. read more ...

Source: www.pharmalot.com --- 18 days ago
As GARDASIL revenue disappoints, the drugmaker is scrambling for ways to boost (pun intended) sales of the controversial HPV vaccine. So Merck is now promising docs a free replacement dosage if an insurer refuses coverage, according to Maggie McGlynn, who heads Merck’s vaccines business and mentioned the effort during a conference call with institutional investors [...] ...

Source: www.newsinferno.com --- 19 days ago
Australian regulators have been investigating several cases of pancreatitis that might be linked to the cervical cancer vaccine GARDASIL. In the U.S., GARDASIL has been the subject of numerous side effect reports, but both the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and its manufacturer, Merck & Co., continue to insist that the vaccine is safe. In Australia, [...] ...

Source: www.pharmalot.com --- 3 days ago
A new study looking at young women in Australia who were vaccinated with Merck’s HPV vaccine shows they were five to 20 times more likely to suffer from anaphylaxis than girls in comparable school-based programs, although the study authors, nonetheless, conclude the vaccine is still “remarkably safe.” The study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, [...] ...

Source: www.ksfy.com --- 15 days ago
It's supposed to be the first anti-cancer vaccine, but scientists question if GARDASIL will live up to it's claim. ...