Posted by vaccinexchange on April 19, 2012 · 1 Comment
Forbes currently has an article up that can at best be described as an ode to the HPV vaccine. Uncritically presenting the view of pharmaceutical industries, the article is so incredibly misleading that we thought we would point out some of its fallacies here. The writer begins by describing the case of Neal Fowler, not … Read more
Category Gardasil, HPV, in the media, laws, options, and more, Merck, pharma, vaccine marketing · Tagged with Gardasil, HPV, Merck, vaccine marketing, vaccine policy
Posted by vaccinexchange on March 30, 2012 · 1 Comment
We have written here before about the way in which Merck marketed Gardasil in order to maximize fear of cervical cancer – a disease that regular pap smears prevent anyway. Our previous post focused specifically on the ways in which Merck manipulated the information available to physicians. Now, an exceedingly interesting study just released in … Read more
Posted by vaccinexchange on January 31, 2012 · Leave a Comment
As you have no doubt heard, the media has been gripped by yet another medical mystery. Twelve girls from Le Roy Junior Senior High School in upstate New York have been suffering uncontrollable movements that cause them pain, in addition to stuttering and verbal outbursts. Psychiatrists have diagnosed the girls with “conversion disorder” – a … Read more
Posted by vaccinexchange on January 10, 2012 · 1 Comment
As we explained in our last blog post, the medical profession has an ethical obligation to explain both the risks and the benefits of any drug to a patient so that the patient can make an informed decision about whether or not to follow the doctor’s recommendation. This is particularly true for vaccines, which are … Read more
Category drug trials, Gardasil, HPV, informed consent, medical journals, pharma, scientific research, studies, vaccine choice, Vaccine Injury, vaccine marketing, Vaccine Science, vaccines
Posted by vaccinexchange on January 4, 2012 · 1 Comment
A new paper published in the Annals of Medicine argues that, as we have said for some time now, the HPV vaccine may not be as effective as health authorities claim. The paper begins by summarizing one of the key points in the vaccine safety debate: since vaccines are given to healthy people to guard … Read more
Category aluminum adjuvants, cancer, cervical cancer, drug trials, Gardasil, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, HPV, informed consent, placebos, studies, vaccine choice, Vaccine Injury, Vaccine Science, vaccines · Tagged with aluminum adjuvants, cervical cancer, drug trials, Gardasil, informed consent, placebos, scientific studies, vaccine adverse reactions, vaccine choice, vaccine damage, vaccine injury, vaccine science
Posted by vaccinexchange on November 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Posted by vaccinexchange on October 28, 2011 · 1 Comment
We just came across this great website regarding the many unexplained deaths related to Gardasil. I strongly encourage you to take five minutes out of your day to check it out, along with the following video: Remember, the more we talk about this on Facebook, Twitter, and our blogs, the more we help others stay … Read more
Posted by vaccinexchange on October 14, 2011 · 1 Comment
Despite the efforts of vaccine safety advocates around the nation, California Governor Jerry Brown gave in to pressure from the powerful pharmaceutical industry and signed bill AB499 into law, making it legal for children as young as twelve to be vaccinated without the knowledge or consent of their parents. In other words, it would be … Read more
Category California, Gardasil, Hepatitis B, HPV, laws, options, and more, NVIC, vaccine choice, Vaccine Injury · Tagged with Gardasil, infectious disease, National Vaccine Information Center, NVIC, vaccine choice, vaccine policy
Posted by vaccinexchange on October 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The HPV vaccine, Gardasil, has been much in the news lately with several of the Republican Presidential candidates stating an opinion regarding it. Consequently, we at The Vaccine Xchange have also been posting on the subject fairly frequently. More people definitely deserve to know about the risks attached to the vaccine: it has been linked … Read more
Posted by vaccinexchange on September 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment
An article in the Examiner this week focuses on Texas Governor and Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Perry, who is currently getting a lot of criticism because he issued an executive order mandating that sixth grade girls receive Gardasil, the vaccine against HPV, in February 2007. At the time, Gardasil was still a relatively new vaccine, … Read more
