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...Frankly, I thought that the vision that Larry Summers had was super,” says Albert W. Merck ’43, whose family founded one of the 10 largest pharmaceutical firms in the world. “This one was going to take us into the 21st century...
...health fee to cover this new cost,” Rosenthal wrote. There are over 120 different strains of HPV, but the four that Gardasil fends off are responsible for 70 percent of cervical cancer cases and 90 percent of genital warts infections. According to the website of Merck & Co., Inc.—Gardasil’s manufacturer—testing found the vaccine to be 100 percent effective in preventing high-grade cervical pre-cancers and non-invasive cervical cancers associated with HPV type 16 and 18 infections. But the cost of the injection series, each priced...
...treated aggressively.) The first vaccine approved for prevention of rotavirus, Wyeth's Rotashield, was taken off the market in 1999 after several children who received it developed a rare but serious complication in which the bowel folds in on itself. Preliminary studies suggest this problem has been overcome by Merck's RotaTeq, which was approved by regulators in Europe and the U.S. earlier this year, and GlaxoSmith-Kline's Rotarix, approved in Europe in February. Like other vaccines, they work by provoking the development of antibodies that protect against future infection. Both are given orally. Clinical trials of both drugs...
...treatment, however, is a bit pricey. The vaccine consists of three separate shots administered over six months and costs about $360, a price that is a reach for many U.S. families and an impossibility for most in developing nations. While Merck, Gardasil’s manufacturer, has stated that it is committed to providing Gardasil to the developing world and is working with the Gates Foundation to do so, it remains to be seen if and how this will be done, as many other vaccination programs for the impoverished have faltered. (In the United States, Gardasil is included...
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...