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National Vaccine Information Center Calls New CA Vaccine Law A “Violation of Parental Informed Consent Rights and Federal Law”

October 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Market Watch

[PR-Logo-Businesswire] WASHINGTON, Oct 10, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) today criticized California Governor Jerry Brown for bowing to pressure from the pharmaceutical and medical trade lobby and signing a controversial bill (AB499) into law that allows 12 year old children to be vaccinated without the knowledge or consent of their parents. The new California law allows minor children as young as 12 years old to be given Gardasil and hepatitis B vaccine, as well as future vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases, without the informed consent of their parents.

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HPV jab: doctors call for teenage girls to be given more effective vaccine against sexual disease

October 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The Guardian

Pressure increases on ministers to provide genital warts inoculation to girls from age 12

Denis Campbell
Saturday 8 October 2011 15.40 EDT
[Doctor-preparing-a-vaccin-007] Doctors are pressing the Department of Health to switch from using Cervarix to using Gardasil to immunise teenage girls against cervical cancer because Gardasil protects against more strains of the cancer causing virus HPV. Photograph: Alamy

Doctors are urging ministers to mount a sustained attack on the UK’s most common sexually-transmitted infection by immunising 12- and 13-year-old schoolgirls against genital warts.

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In development: a vaccine for acne

October 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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New Scientist Health

12:35 23 September 2011 by Debora MacKenzie

[Vac Acne] First it was smallpox. Then polio. Now science has another of humanity’s scourges in its sights: acne.

Sanofi-Pasteur, the world’s biggest vaccine company, has signed a contract with the University of California, San Diego, to develop “an immunological approach to acne prevention and treatment”.

Acne is no joke. “More than 85 per cent of teenagers and over 40 million people in the United States alone are suffering this disease” and many adults have it too, says Chun-Ming Huang, head of the lab at the centre of the deal.

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Opponents: Calif. vaccine bill will give taxpayer boost to drug companies

September 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Catholic News Agency

By Kevin J. Jones
September 9, 2011

Sacramento, Calif., Sep 7, 2011 / 04:58 pm (CNA).- California Gov. Jerry Brown should veto a bill allowing 12-year-olds to consent to STD vaccinations or treatment without their parents’ knowledge, bill opponents say. They warn that the bill violates parents’ rights and could give pharmaceutical companies $360 per child vaccinated, at taxpayer expense.

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Baby Fat – Do birth control pills make women gain weight?

August 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Slate

By Christie AschwandenPosted Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011, at 6:59 AM ET

Some women are getting pregnant to avoid getting fat. According to a review published in a recent issue of the journal Contraception, concern about weight gain is among the most common reasons people quit the pill (or decide not to take it in the first place), and most women who discontinue the pill switch to something less effective or nothing at all. Some of those women end up with unintended pregnancies simply because they feared a few extra pounds.

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Vitamin D Linked to Age of First Menstruation

August 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Calorie Lab

August 12, 2011

A study conducted by the University of Michigan School of Public Health found that Colombian girls 5 to 12 years old with low vitamin D levels doubled their chance of having their first period, called menarche, during the 30 month follow up. Fifty-seven percent of deficient girls reached menarche around 11.8 years compared to 12.6 years in the sufficient group.

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STD shot for boys may help teen girls

August 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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New strategy aimed at virus that can lead to cervical cancer.

Charlotte Observer
By Deia de Brito
ddebrito@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Sunday, Jul. 31, 2011

What’s the best way to protect teenage girls from sexually transmitted diseases? Some doctors in Charlotte say the answer is to vaccinate boys.

More than 65 million Americans – that’s one in five – carry a sexually transmitted disease. The most common one – the human papilloma virus, or HPV – affects more than half of sexually active Americans at some point, according to the federal government.

Since 2007, health officials have recommended that adolescent girls get vaccinated against HPV because it can lead to cervical cancer later in life.

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Talk of the Day — TV drama and sexual precocity

July 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Focus Taiwan
News Channel

2011/07/27 21:14:31

Exposure to TV shows and other media depicting sex could lead to sexual precocity in children, a doctor warned, suggesting parents protect their young children from such material.

In a study of 5,000 children conducted over 10 years, Dr. Hou Chia-wei of Cathay General Hospital in Taipei found that most cases of sexual precocity were related to obesity and one fifth of sexually precocious children had long been exposed to TV shows with sexual content.

Filed Under: Adolescent Girls, Hormone Health World News, Puberty

Should GPs lead the way in facing the facts about obesity and its link to breast cancer?

July 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The Telegraph
United Kingdom

By Judith Potts Health and lifestyle
Last updated: July 27th, 2011

The believed causes of breast cancer are myriad and well-documented – family history; age; time and type of menopause (i.e. natural or induced by surgery where ovaries are removed); whether or not the woman has had children; over-indulgence of alcohol; smoking; HRT; a compromised immune system etc. To this long list has just been added the height of the person, the age at which a woman began menstruating and – perhaps most crucially – obesity.

Filed Under: Body Image, Breast Health, Cancer, Endocrine System, Environmental Health, Estrogen Dominance, Hormone Cycles, Hormone Health World News, Hormone Imbalance, Hormones, Menopause, Menstrual Cycle, Menstrual Health Education, Menstruation, Mothers & Daughters, Ovulation, Peri-Menopause, Periods, Post Menopausal Women, Teens, Women's Health, Women's History, Women's Politics Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Who Knew this Cocktail of up to 20 Chemicals Was in Your Glass of Milk?

July 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Mercola.com

July 25, 2011

A single glass of milk can contain a mixture of as many as 20 painkillers, antibiotics and growth hormones. Using a highly sensitive test, scientists found the chemicals in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk.

The results show how man-made chemicals are now found throughout the food chain. The highest quantities of medicines were found in cow’s milk.

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