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CDC may push circumcision to combat AIDS
The New York Times reported yesterday: Public health officials are considering promoting routine circumcision for all baby boys born in the United States to reduce the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.... Experts are also considering whether the...
Better late than never: MSM worried about Gardasil
Last January, I began reporting on the first vaccine to prevent an STD: Gardasil by Merck, to fend off HPV, the human papillomavirus. Living in IL, I smelled a rat when bills began simultaneously popping up in state legislatures across...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Merck suspends mandatory HPV vaccine campaign
Read story on page 2: Merck suspends campaign to make Gardasil vaccination mandatory, Wall Street Journal, 4:52 p.m. EST [Hat tip: Dave Diersen] Read story on page 2: Merck stops campaign to mandate gardasil vaccine use (update 3), Bloomberg, 5:27...
Brace for HPV executive orders
We're used to these in Illinois, although Gov. Blagojevich hasn't thwarted the legislative process since last October. Get ready. Change the names, and this may be in your state's future:AUSTIN, Texas Feb 2, 2007 (AP) -- Bypassing the Legislature altogether,...
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