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...parents are deeply uncomfortable with it. Texas Governor Rick Perry found that out last month when he tried to make the vaccine mandatory for girls entering sixth grade, an idea that many Texans felt contradicted the state's abstinence-only message in sex education. Since then, Merck, which makes Gardasil, has stopped lobbying states to require the vaccine for school. No other vaccine mandated for school targets a microbe that is spread mainly through...
...procedure involving a needle has a risk of fainting," says Dr. John Iskander of the CDC's immunization safety office, which recommends waiting in the doctor's office for 15 minutes after any shot. Another unknown: how long the protection will last and whether a booster will be needed. Merck says its studies so far show that protection lasts at least five years...
...vaccine, Gardasil, is solely manufactured by Merck & Co., Inc.—a global research driven pharmaceutical company—as a preventative vaccine reccommended for women ages 9-26 who have not yet contracted HPV, a sexually transmitted disease that may lead to cervical cancer...
Professor of Management Practice Raymond V. Gilmartin was the chairman, president and CEO of Merck & Co., Inc., a leading pharmaceutical research company, for 11 years...
...giving them a larger well of knowledge upon which they can draw. Yet, even as newer classes of ARVs arrive, drugs cannot be the only answer to AIDS. Already, says Dr. Roy Steigbigel of State University of New York at Stony Brook, and one of the leading investigators of Merck's isentress, volunteers have begun to develop resistance to the integrase inhibitor - a drug that hasn't even yet been approved...