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Like most 14-year-old girls, Natalie Morton probably didn't spend too much time worrying about cervical cancer. But along with all of her female classmates at the Blue Coat Church of England School in Coventry, she received a vaccine on Sept. 28 designed to protect her from the disease. Within a few hours, she was dead...
...Morton died after receiving GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix, one of two vaccines designed to protect women from the human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection linked to most cervical cancers. (American women receive Gardasil, an HPV vaccine manufactured by Merck.) Introduced last year, Cervarix is expected to cut deaths from cervical cancer in Britain by about 75% - or 650 deaths a year. So far, the vaccine has been given to 1.4 million women in Britain, and Morton's death is the first to be possibly linked to the shot. But there have also been less serious side effects in recipients. Britain...
...months it had been clear that the FDIC, which maintains a fund to protect deposits when banks fail, would soon run out of money. By the FDIC's own revised estimate, the credit crisis, which has already claimed 95 banks this year, will cost the agency $100 billion. Half of that has already been spent. It's the other half the FDIC is having problems coming up with. As of the end of June, the FDIC had about $10 billion left in its insurance fund. That has put the FDIC in a tough spot. When a bank fails...
Claire internally debates whether or not to tell her friend about her power/Daddy is interfering but he only wants to protect! his ClaireBear. As always...
...militarization," she says. "And I don't think the government has done anything to make the issues clearer." Many voters fear that defense arrangements in the treaty could lead to conscription of E.U. citizens into a new E.U. army. But the government has negotiated legal guarantees that would protect Ireland's military neutrality as well as its other laws, like its restrictions on abortion...