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Cervical cancer vaccine for babies

June 30, 2009 by Leave a Comment

The Times of India

27 August, 2007

SYDNEY: A doctor at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne has proposed to test a cervical cancer vaccine in babies, with a view to adding the vaccine to the infant immunisation program. The vaccine is currently being given to schoolgirls as part of the trials in which Suzanne Garland, the director of microbiology and infectious diseases at the hospital, has herself played a leading role.

She is now making a US visit to meet representatives from the drug companies that make the vaccine. She will discuss with them the proposal to conduct trials in babies up to a few months old.

Professor Garland conducted company-funded trials for CSL’s vaccine Gardasil and the rival GSK’s vaccine Cervarix, the two companies that have her on their advisory boards. She is of the opinion that there are benefits to immunising babies instead of schoolgirls.

Filed Under: Cervarix, Immunizations, Mothers & Daughters, Vaccinations Tagged With: ,

As Novel H1N1 Influenza Reaches Pandemic Level, Public Health Preparedness Efforts Build

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Medscape Today

Laura Newman, MA
Authors and Disclosures
Published: 06/26/2009
First Pandemic Systematically Monitored in Real Time

“The world is now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic,” said Margaret Chan, MD, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), on June 11. Dr. Chan added: “No previous pandemic has been detected so early or watched so closely in real time, right at the very beginning. The world can now reap the benefits of investments over the last 5 years, in pandemic preparedness.”

Filed Under: Pharmaceuticals, Swine Avian Flu, Swine Flu Vaccine, Vaccinations Tagged With: ,

Flu Vaccine Fact Sheet

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“By 1853, Parliament began passing laws to make the untested vaccine compulsory throughout the British Empire. Other countries of Europe followed suit. Once the economic implications of compulsory vaccinations were realized, few dared to
disagree. Then, as now, the media were controlled by the vaccine manufacturers and the government, who stood to make huge money from the sale of these spurious vaccines.”… Tim O’Shea, D.C.

Filed Under: Vaccination Policy Tagged With: ,

Gardasil: Women Hurt By Medicine

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About This Blog
women tell their stories about ‘cervical cancer vaccines’

The Problem:
Supporters of the so-called ‘cervical cancer’ vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix have promoted them as safe and effective. However, an increasing number of women experience unwanted side effects and are not informed properly about what these vaccines might do – or might not. Women and girls often believe that after 3 shots with Gardasil or Cervarix they will not get cervical cancer. In reality, this injection does not protect against cervical cancer but against 2 strands of the human papilloma virus (HPV) which appear to contribute to 70% of cervical cancer. But there are lots of other HPV strands that also contribute to cervical cancer.

Filed Under: Adolescent Girls, Cervarix, Global Gardasil/Silgard Concerns, HPV, Human Papillomavirus, Mothers & Daughters, My Sister's Song, Puberty, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Social/Political, Teens, Vaccinations, Women's Politics Tagged With:

HPV Vaccine March Continues NWT (Northwest Territory) Girls to Get HPV Vaccine

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Slave River Journal
By SHAWN BELL, SRJ Reporter 29.JUN.09

All grade four girls in the NWT will be offered a free vaccine to prevent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) starting in September 2009.

The GNWT department of Health and Social Services announced the vaccine program on June 16. A catch-up program for girls in grades 9-12 will also be offered over the next five years.

“One death attributed to cervical cancer is too many,” said Sandy Lee, minister of Health and Social Services in a press release. “We are taking action to prevent the spread of HPV, but more importantly to save lives.”

Filed Under: Adolescent Girls, Global Gardasil/Silgard Concerns, HPV, Human Papillomavirus, Mothers & Daughters, Puberty, Social/Political, Teens, Vaccinations, Women's Politics Tagged With: ,

Human papillomavirus vaccine (GARDASIL)

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Australian Government
Office of Health and Ageing

Advice from the Therapeutic Goods Administration

Updated 5 May 2009

* Australia was one of the first countries to roll out a national cervical cancer immunisation campaign using Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccine that protects young women from the strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) that cause 70% of cervical cancers.
* Vaccination with Gardasil is most effective when given to females before they are likely to be exposed to HPV. Four out of five people will be exposed to HPV during their lifetime and exposure to HPV from a single lifetime partner can still be enough to result in an infection that can lead to cervical cancer. Over 700 new cases of cervical cancer are reported each year in Australia, and in 2005 cervical cancer led to the deaths of 216 women.
* To date approximately 4.7 million doses of Gardasil have been distributed in Australia. The overall number of suspected adverse events reported following Gardasil administration is very low, and consistent with other new vaccines and adverse event rates reported in other countries. Worldwide, over 43.8 million doses have been distributed. With this number of people receiving the vaccine, even if all are healthy and young, some serious events can be expected within days or hours of vaccination by chance alone and unrelated to vaccination.

Filed Under: Global Gardasil/Silgard Concerns, Social/Political, Vaccinations Tagged With: ,

2009 Marks 40 Years of Choice and Sexual Empowerment for Women in Canada

June 30, 2009 by 2 Comments

Market Watch
Canadian government legalized contraception for birth control in June 1969

TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jun 30, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Pour voir la version francaise de ce communique, visitez le lien suivant :

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=1011191&lang=F5

Editors Note: There is one video and two audio files associated with this release.

Few developments have impacted choice for Canadian women as impressively as the government’s legalization of all forms of contraception for birth control use in June 1969.(i) Prior to this, use of contraception for birth control was illegal and could only be prescribed by physicians to women who needed help regulating their menstrual cycle.(ii)

Legalization gave Canadian women the right to prevent pregnancy, but it was also an important stepping stone for other freedoms for women, including equality in education and jobs.

What’s exciting about this ruby anniversary is how legalization paved the way for important contraceptive innovations, giving today’s women even more choice and empowerment. Four decades later, women enjoy access to a variety of safe and effective choices, including:

Filed Under: Birth Control, Birth Control Pills/BCP's, Menstrual Suppression, Pharmaceuticals, Social/Political, Synthetic Hormones, Women's Health, Women's History, Women's Politics Tagged With: , ,

Gardasil: the denial continues

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On Line Opinion
June 30, 2009
By Renate Klein

Two weeks after receiving the “cervical cancer” vaccination Gardasil, 26-year-old Shannon from Melbourne remembers, “it became so difficult to breathe that I went straight to the emergency room. I was very frightened at this point. Two weeks before I had been fit and healthy, and by this stage I was limping around the house like a stroke victim, wheezing and worried I was suffocating.”

At the hospital Shannon had x-rays, blood tests and an MRI. She was told that the lining of her left lung had become so inflamed that it was rubbing against her chest wall each time she breathed. The Head Consultant looking after her said that she must have gotten some mysterious virus and that Gardasil had been tested and was safe. She was released with no diagnosis other than “pleurisy” and given painkillers.

Five months after receiving the vaccine she saw a neurologist who confirmed that she had damage to her left side and that it was “an auto-immune reaction, resulting in inflamed lining of the left lung and nerves on the left side, with a temporal connection to Gardasil injection”.

Filed Under: Adolescent Girls, Cervical Cancer, Global Gardasil/Silgard Concerns, Human Papillomavirus, Social/Political, Teens, Vaccinations, Women's Health, Women's Politics Tagged With: , , ,

Could a zapper in your undies banish period pain?

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Mailonline

By Pat Hagan
Last updated at 10:48 PM on 29th June 2009

A device that fires a mild electric current through the abdomen could be a radical new treatment for period pain.

The treatment is based on a technology called pulsed electromagnetic field therapy (PEMF), which has been used for many years to treat sports injuries.

An estimated 75 per cent of women suffer from period pain - one in five so severely that it affects everyday activities.

Symptoms range from abdominal pain and nausea to dizziness and diarrhoea.

There are two types of period pain (or dysmenorrhoea). The more common is primary dysmenorrhoea; here, there is no underlying medical reason for the pain. In other words, a woman’s womb is healthy and the pain is the result of the body’s natural process of shedding the womb lining.

Filed Under: Cramps, Menstrual Cycle, Menstruation, Mothers & Daughters, Periods, Social/Political, Women's Politics Tagged With: ,

Wake Up to the Gardasil Vaccine!

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Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s Blog

June 29, 2009

Here is a travesty about to happen. A study published May 26 2009 on the journal Pediatrics showed that mothers are willing to risk the lives of their children due to misinformation about the Gardasil, the vaccine for cervical cancer.

Of the 8,832 mothers who completed a survey (84% response rate), 7,207 had a daughter. Among mothers with a daughter, 48% intended to vaccinate a daughter if she were 9 to 12 years of age, 68% if she were 13 to 15 years of age, and 86% if she were 16 to 18 years of age. Forty-eight percent intended to receive the vaccine themselves if recommended. Here’s the link to the article abstract: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/123/6/1439

Filed Under: Mothers & Daughters, Social/Political, Vaccinations Tagged With: ,