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May 26, 2007

3 HPV vaccine deaths reported since March 2007

Medical News Today reported May 24: Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released documents obtained from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, detailing 1,637...

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May 15, 2007

Flawed HPV vaccine fizzles

A great source of excitement for me has been blogging on the pharma industry's lucrative idea earlier this year, which foolish legislators - almost all liberal - ran with, to mandate the HPV vaccine for all 11- and 12-year-old girls....

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March 19, 2007

New meaning of monogamy

This quote from a March 15 Associated Press story on the ignorance about the sexually transmitted disease human papillomavirus (HPV) would be funny if it weren't so sad. Such pitiful, lost kids.... That was the case for one 24-year-old woman...

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March 15, 2007

Even CA has caved on HPV vaccine mandate

The Sacramento Bee reported yesterday that California Democrat Assemblyman Ed Hernandez withdrew his HPV vaccine mandate bill from a health committee hearing "after lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressed doubts."  He says he will reintroduce it later. The...

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March 11, 2007

Guttmacher questions HPV mandate

CBS News posted a column today entitled, "The unlikely antivaccine alliance," detailing the strange bedfellows in the fight against mandating the HPV vaccine: vaccine opponents, social conservatives, anti-corporate groups, anti-big government groups, and most surprisingly, women's groups.... Finally, the backdrop...

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March 9, 2007

HPV vaccine's "limited usefulness"

According to Kaiser News today:The "real" reason that "[t]oo many women still die of cervical cancer" is the "lack of access to preventive medical care for low-income women and not the lack of a vaccine," Wall Street Journal columnist and...

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March 3, 2007

HPV vaccine targets wrong age group

From the Washington Times:Lawmakers looking to force preteen girls to take Gardasil, a new vaccine against a virus that causes cervical cancer, are targeting the wrong age group, cancer data shows. Middle-school girls inoculated with the breakthrough vaccine will be...

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March 1, 2007

Most interesting exchange, IL Senate hearing, mandated HPV vaccine

Yesterday the Illinois Senate Human Services Committee voted 6-4 along party lines (Democrats for; Republicans against) for mandated HPV vaccines of all 11- and 12-year-old girls. The bill now goes before the full Senate. Here was the most interesting exchange...

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February 27, 2007

CDC vaccine chairman opposes HPV vaccine mandate

From today's Washington Times:The chairman of the federal panel that recommended the new cervical-cancer vaccine for pre-teen girls says lawmakers should not make the inoculation mandatory, as the District and more than 20 states, including Virginia, are considering. Dr. Jon...

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Gardasil is not a cancer vaccine and not necessary

By Judie Brown An enormous amount of rhetoric has flowed over the past few weeks, all dealing with Gardasil, the newest vaccine from Merck Pharmaceutical. While Merck's product has received the lion's share of media attention, let me add that...

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Mandate male circumcision?

A Feb. 23 article in the New York Times revealed: Circumcision may provide even more protection against AIDS than was realized when two clinical trials in Africa were stopped two months ago because the results were so clear, according to...

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February 21, 2007

NYC's ruptured condom campaign

I alluded in my column today to the New York City campaign to distribute 26 million free condoms this year. I thought you might like to see the packaging, which is designed after NYC subway lines. The photo here is...

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New Stanek WND column, "Why not mandate condoms for boys?"

It doesn't seem fair that legislators are focusing solely on adolescent girls to try to slow the spread the sexually transmitted disease human papillomavirus.... Lawmakers around the country are introducing legislation faster than sperm swims mandating that 11- and...

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Merck admits influencing legislators thru WiG and cash

Associated Press, this morning:Merck & Co. has suspended its lobbying campaign to persuade state legislatures to mandate that adolescent girls get the company's new vaccine against cervical cancer as a requirement for school attendance, the company said Tuesday.... Last month,...

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February 20, 2007

Merck suspends mandatory HPV vaccine campaign

Merck suspends campaign to make Gardasil vaccination mandatory, Wall Street Journal, 4:52 p.m. EST [Hat tip: Dave Diersen] Merck stops campaign to mandate gardasil vaccine use (update 3), Bloomberg, 5:27 EST [Hat tip: Illinois Review] To read complete stories (WSJ's...

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February 18, 2007

Why not mandate condoms for boys?

It has't seemed fair that liberal legislators are focusing solely on young girls in their attempts to mandate 3 vaccinations (well, maybe 6 or more, since they've only been proven to last 4 years) to stop 4 strains (of...

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February 14, 2007

New Stanek WND column, "The link between HPV and lung cancer"

Gov. Rick Perry is still drawing a barrage of criticism for signing on executive order almost two weeks ago forcing Texan parents to vaccinate their adolescent daughters against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus. Perry rationalized, according to the Houston...

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February 8, 2007

Former RNC deputy chair Jack Oliver is Merck lobbyist

As reported yesterday in Illinois Review and today in WorldNetDaily.com, former Republican National Committee Deputy Chairman and National Finance Co-chairman Jack Oliver is a lobbyist for Merck, the manufacturer pressing state legislatures to make its $360 HPV vaccine mandatory....

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February 6, 2007

HPV and lung cancer

Responding to a barrage of criticism for signing on executive order that will force adolescent girls to receive the HPV vaccine regimen, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is quoted in the Houston Chronicle today saying, "If the medical community developed a...

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Barage of legislative gunfire to block Perry's exec order

Kaiser News reports today Texan legislative guns blazed yesterday in response to Gov. Perry's Feb 2. quick-draw executive order forcing adolescent girls to receive the HPV vaccine: State Sen. Jane Nelson (R) asked Perry to reverse the order and said...

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January 31, 2007

New Stanek WND column: "People magazine: Don't stop, get a shot"

An article in the Feb. 5 issue of People magazine demonstrated the persistence of liberals to march us all down the path of free love to our deaths. I don't understand why young people would trust the ideology of...

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January 28, 2007

People Magazine: Don't stop, get a shot

The Feb. 5 issue of People magazine included a story about actress Marissa Jaret Winokur who, according to the teaser, "learned the cause of her cervical cancer and now makes sure other women know how to prevent it." The sole...

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