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...vaccine, called Gardasil and manufactured by Merck, is one of the first immunizations to protect against a cancer - in this case, cervical cancer, which is most commonly caused by infection with HPV. Because the virus is sexually transmitted, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended in 2006 that girls get the vaccine at ages 11 and 12, before they become sexually active, so they have the best chance of avoiding the cancer and genital warts caused by HPV. States joined in, attempting to mandate HPV vaccination for school entry, but parents balked, in part because of concerns about...
Meanwhile, public health experts at Columbia University have a new study that shines a light on the marketing of Gardasil. They say Merck may be indirectly influencing doctors to use the vaccine by providing grants to professional medical organizations which then train and pay physicians to speak about the benefits of HPV vaccination. Merck denies the allegations. "The material developed by these societies is done independent of Merck and without any influence or review from Merck," says Dr. Richard Haupt, who heads the company's HPV-vaccine program. (Read "Selling Gardasil at the Movies...
...ranks 25th; in reading, 15th. As Obama said in his speech to Congress a few weeks ago, "This is a prescription for economic decline, because we know the countries that outteach us today will outcompete us tomorrow." We can already see the signs. Major drug companies such as Merck and Eli Lilly used to outsource much of their manufacturing to India and China; now they also outsource much of their research and engineering...
White said that before the project was completed, Fogel went to work for the pharmaceutical giant, Merck...
...Today there are a few other candidates in early phase trials, including compounds of two previously tested candidates, just in case they turn out to be effective together where each failed individually. Since Merck's setback in 2007, however, some scientists have questioned current vaccine-development tactics. And some researchers, including those in Nussenzweig's lab, are now trying to produce HIV immunity through antibodies; but despite good results in primates, they have had no luck so far in humans with a single-antibody vaccine...