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Harvard University Health Services (UHS) will offer female students vaccinations to protect against cervical cancer and genital warts. The vaccines will be available starting October 1. The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Gardasil vaccine, manufactured by Merck, this June. The vaccine protects against various strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) which an FDA press release called “the most common sexually-transmitted infection in the United States,” affecting half of all sexually active Americans. The FDA claimed that the vaccine is 100% effective against the two strains of HPV which cause...
...FDA advised consumers not to eat fresh spinach or fresh spinach-containing products until further notice. Some restaurants and retailers may be taking spinach out of bags before selling it, so consumers shouldn't buy it at all, the FDA said...
...FDA investigation and the voluntary action taken by Natural Selection Foods LLC help narrow concern about any continuing risk, and begins to ensure that product that may be potentially contaminated is removed completely from the food supply," Stenzel said in a statement...
...FDA's director of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Dr. Robert Brackett, recognizes the riskiness of such processing in the field, and sent a warning letter to the California growers that had provided the contaminated lettuce in last year's outbreak, noting that "claims that 'we cannot take action until we know the cause' are unacceptable...
...funding sources and individual intellectual contributions of medical authors. From such disclosures it quickly becomes apparent that much “research” is simply a feature of a broad continuum of pharmaceutical and medical device promotion. The research is designed and processed by industry; the FDA accepts the selective data; the audience of prescribing physicians is primed with a beautiful array of advertisements and educational promotion; the “thought leaders” among physicians are paid to lecture and influence; academics further work mightily to expand a disease concept to include greater application of product; emoluments...