One more time: There’s no evidence Gardasil causes premature ovarian failure
Here we go again. When you’ve been blogging for over 11 years, particularly when what you blog about is skepticism and science-based medicine, with a special emphasis on taking down quackery (particularly cancer and antivaccine quackery), inevitably you see the same misinformation and lies pop up from time to time. Indeed, those of us in… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 1, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking American College of Pediatrics Cervarix Gardasil hpv polysorbate 80 premature ovarian failure Source Type: blogs
No, Gardasil does not cause behavioral problems
Believe it or not, I frequently peruse Retraction Watch, the blog that does basically what its title says: It watches for retracted articles in the peer-reviewed scientific literature and reports on them. Rare is it that a retracted paper gets by the watchful eyes of the bloggers there. So it was that the other day… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - February 17, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine adjuvant aluminum Autoimmune/Inflammatory Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants C57BL/6 Christopher Shaw Gardasil Gregory Poland Lucija Tomljenovic retraction Retraction Watch Yeh Source Type: blogs
My Children are Vaccine-Damaged; are Yours?
Conclusion
A growing number of today’s children suffer from vaccine damage. Most individuals do not make the connection between health problems and vaccines. When asked about the cause of autoimmune disorders, asthma, allergies, diabetes, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, autism, and other common childhood diseases and illness, the majority of health care providers advise patients that the causes are unknown. Doctors, including most integrative physicians, fail to make the connection to vaccines.
It takes one moment to permanently damage the health of an adult or child, but takes a lifetime to t...
Source: vactruth.com - February 5, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Top Stories autoimmune disorders gardasil HPV Vaccine Medical Authority vaccine injury Source Type: blogs
When patients question the motives of their physicians
I was recently scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed when I came upon a long message chain started by one of my friends, an older woman from my hometown in New Jersey. She had seen a discussion given by a drug representative who was promoting administering Gardasil to early adolescents for the prevention of cervical cancer, and my friend wanted to know how other parents felt about allowing their children to be given the vaccine.
The discussion that followed was remarkable to me for a number of reasons. I knew that there was a lot of public suspicion surrounding the HPV vaccine, much of it fueled by fear of negative side e...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 30, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Heather Flynn Tags: Education Medical school Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
HPV Vaccines:
Health Professionals Caught Red-Handed in Hiding Serious Dangers
This is surely the most shameful act of all: While news of widespread lies and deceit in connection with promotion of HPV vaccines (Gardasil and Cervarix) is spreading rapidly across the world, a group of government officials and scientific and health professionals have collaborated to cunningly conceal information regarding serious dangers of the vaccines.
Evidence of the deceit was received by Dr. Sin Hang Lee, former Associate Professor at Yale University, pathologist of Milford Hospital, and director of the Milford Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory of Milford, Connecticut, and was published in a press release from San...
Source: vactruth.com - January 25, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Sandy Lunoe Tags: Logical Recent Articles Sandy Lunoe Top Stories Cervarix Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris Dr. Margaret Chan Dr. Melinda Wharton Dr. Nabae Koji Dr. Robert Pless Dr. Sin Hang Lee gardasil HPV Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs
The Time Is Now For A Consumer Health Movement
Throughout history, social movements have galvanized wide-scale improvements in population health and quality of life. HIV/AIDS activists banded together to strengthen social services for patients, educate the public about the disease, and compel research and treatment investments that have relegated the condition to a chronic, manageable disease. The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation (now called simply Susan G. Komen) brought the issue of breast cancer out of the shadows, raising billions of dollars and saving lives by making whole families aware of the importance of prevention and early detection. Thanks to Mothers...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 3, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Karen Wolk Feinstein Tags: GrantWatch Health Professionals Population Health Quality Consumers Health Philanthropy Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW HPV Patient Engagement Physicians Pittsburgh Source Type: blogs
How Aggressive are Your Student’s College Vaccination Policies?
Conclusion
College campuses vary in regards to their vaccine policies. The meningitis vaccine is the most commonly required vaccination for all incoming freshmen, based on the recommendations of the CDC. Several other vaccinations are required and recommended, with much variation by individual colleges. Most universities provide a religious exemption for students, but some do not. It is worthwhile to investigate what your university vaccine policies are, in addition to the exemptions that exist for colleges in which your student has an interest.
Learn More to Make Your Own Informed Vaccination Choices
For additional re...
Source: vactruth.com - September 3, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Top Picks Top Stories Mandatory Vaccination Meningitis meningococcal disease New York State Department of Health U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention University of Washington Vaccine Adverse Events Source Type: blogs
HPV Myths – BUSTED
There’s an awful lot of misinformation out there about HPV and the HPV vaccine. Let’s see what I can do to clear up the confusion. Here are eight myths I find myself having to continually address with my patients. Let’s bust ’em!
Myth#1 – HPV is forever
Wrong. 90-95% of the time, HPV infections clear without any treatment. For those women with persistent HPV infection, we have pap smears to detect and treat precancerous lesions (dysplasia) years before they become invasive cancer.
Myth #2 – If I’ve had the HPV vaccine, I don’t need Pap smears.
Wrong again. While the HPV vaccine is h...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - August 17, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: HPV HPV & Cervical Cancer abnormal pap Cervarix Gardasil HPV Vaccine Source Type: blogs
Title X: The Lynchpin Of Publicly Funded Family Planning In The United States
The Title X national family planning program was created 45 years ago with broad bipartisan support. Today, Congress has Title X—still the only federal grant program dedicated entirely to family planning and related preventive health care—in its sights for severe funding cuts or even elimination.
The U.S. House of Representatives has proposed ending the program for the fifth year in a row, and the U.S. Senate is recommending a sizable reduction to Title X’s budget. In addition, while legislation aimed at defunding Planned Parenthood and its affiliates, whose health centers serve one-third of Title X clients n...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 10, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Kinsey Hasstedt Tags: Costs and Spending Equity and Disparities Featured Long-term Services and Supports Population Health Public Health Quality ACA family planning Planned Parenthood Title X Women's Health Source Type: blogs
HPV vaccine after age 26: Should you get one?
Currently the HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccines are approved in the United States up to the age of 26. This has nothing to do with safety but due to the fact that the studies submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) involved this age range. The HPV vaccines were primarily studied in women aged 26 years and younger because age is a significant factor in acquiring HPV. If you want to show that your vaccine can help people you need to study as many of your target population as possible. You also need to make translating your work to the general population practical — doing antibody levels to see who is imm...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 14, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Jennifer Gunter, MD Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs May Issue: Variety Issue Includes Focus On Affordable Care Act
This study is part of Health Affairs’ DataWatch series. (Source: Health Affairs Blog)
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 4, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Tracy Gnadinger Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Featured Health Professionals Hospitals Insurance and Coverage ACA 5th anniversary California hospital closures hospital networks HPV vaccine pediatric psychiatry physician training Source Type: blogs
An “un-American suppression” of antivaccine views or good reporting?
I’ve been writing a lot of posts on what I like to call the “antivaccine dogwhistle.” In politics, a “dog whistle” refers to rhetoric that sounds to the average person to be reasonable and even admirable but, like the way that a dog whistle can’t be heard by humans because the frequency of its tone… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 16, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Age of Autism Dan Olmsted Dara O'Briain false balance false equivalency Gardasil Julia Belluz Michael Cooke Toronto Star un-American vaccines Source Type: blogs
Vaccinating Against Iron-Deficiency Anemia: A New Technology For Maternal And Child Health
When we think of killer diseases of global health importance, iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) is not something that immediately comes to mind. Yet the December 2014 publication of leading causes of death by the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 reveals that IDA kills an estimated 183,400 people annually. To put this number in perspective, in the year 2013, IDA killed more people worldwide than ovarian cancer. In terms of years of life lost, IDA ranked higher than cervical cancer.
The fact that we compared IDA to two other well-known threats to the health of women is no accident. Because women of child-bearing age have low u...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Peter Hotez and Remko van Leeuwen Tags: All Categories Global Health Health Care Delivery Nonmedical Determinants Pharma Prevention Public Health Source Type: blogs
The Scary Facts Most Parents Don’t Know About Vaccine Injury Compensation
Conclusion
Instead of eliminating the preferred methods of submitting vaccine adverse event reports to VAERS, CDC officials must find ways to encourage accurate reporting of vaccine adverse events. Only a tiny percentage of vaccine reactions, injuries, and deaths are ever reported, failing to give parents a true picture of what can actually happen when their child is vaccinated.
The public comment period for this proposal has closed, but you can still make your opinions known about the changes to the VAERS guidelines. Share this article in your social networks to let others know that vaccine injuries and deaths are very re...
Source: vactruth.com - February 19, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Missy Fluegge Tags: Logical Missy Fluegge Top Stories truth about vaccines Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Vaccine Death vaccine injury vaccine injury compensation Source Type: blogs
