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Gardasil Protects Older Women, Gay Men
Yahoo News ^ | 2-17-10 | Deborah Kotz

Posted on 02/18/2010 7:01:51 PM PST by cajuncow

Gardasil, the vaccine that protects against the cervical-cancer-causing human papilloma virus, may soon be approved for women over age 27. New clinical trial data involving more than 3,800 women ages 24 to 45 showed that the shot was nearly 90 percent effective at preventing persistent HPV infections--which are sexually transmitted--over the study's four-year duration, according to manufacturer Merck, which released the study today. (The vaccine protects against two strains of the virus responsible for 70 percent of cervical cancers and two strains that cause genital warts.)

Merck is hoping that the Food and Drug Administration will grant the company permission to expand its product label to include women over 27; it's currently approved only for those ages 9 to 26. The agency deferred a decision on Merck's application for expanded use in June 2008 and again last year. The FDA asked Merck for longer-term efficacy data out to four years, according to Merck spokesperson Pamela Eisele. She says the company expects an FDA decision by June.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: academicbias; cancer; gardasil; hpv; hpvvaccine; politicalcorrectness; vaccine

1 posted on 02/18/2010 7:01:51 PM PST by cajuncow
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To: cajuncow

Since when do you need to protect older women from gay men?


2 posted on 02/18/2010 7:03:13 PM PST by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others.)
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To: Grizzled Bear

Only those women that are manly enough to attract a gay man.


3 posted on 02/18/2010 7:05:26 PM PST by cajuncow
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To: cajuncow

It protects ALL men, not just gay men. It was a ruse when they tried to make it a “woman’s issue”.

Just like my company is participating in an awareness program about heart disease “the number one killer of women”. Of course heart disease is ALSO “the number one killer of men” but the sexists here are being divisive.


4 posted on 02/18/2010 7:06:48 PM PST by a fool in paradise (DON'T SAY "Happy Valentines' Day". It's Happy Holidays! This is the Holiday Season (Prez Day Feb15))
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To: cajuncow

I was under the impression that genetically, Gardasil could not work in men.

Maybe gay men are more like women than I ever thought. Weird.


5 posted on 02/18/2010 7:07:05 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: cajuncow

Gardasil Protects Older Women, Gay Men

Gardasil, sounds like a lubricant for deviants.


6 posted on 02/18/2010 7:07:20 PM PST by maddog55 (OBAMA, Why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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To: ConservativeMind
It 's been approved for boys.

FDA Panel OKs HPV Vaccine Gardasil for Boys

7 posted on 02/18/2010 7:16:46 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: DJ MacWoW

“It ‘s been approved for boys.”

Some men never grow up so...


8 posted on 02/18/2010 7:24:58 PM PST by cajuncow
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To: cajuncow

In the original trials the chances of dieing from the shot were far greater than from the cancer its intended to prevent.


9 posted on 02/18/2010 7:33:34 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: cajuncow

Gardasil is a scam.


10 posted on 02/18/2010 7:34:15 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Another wonder of our “free” modern health care: a free ticket to molest boys (sarc off)


11 posted on 02/18/2010 7:38:48 PM PST by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: cajuncow
Isn’t this the stuff they had to give to very young women for some reason, and that some had a bad reaction to it? Or am I confusing it with another medication?
12 posted on 02/18/2010 7:39:56 PM PST by pepperdog (As Israel goes, so goes America!)
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To: JudgemAll

I’m certain that it will be looked at as a “wonder drug” to prevent the consequences of deviant sex.


13 posted on 02/18/2010 7:44:32 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: pepperdog

Yes.


14 posted on 02/18/2010 7:44:58 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: cajuncow

So, let’s turn the tables and make it mandatory for gays to take the vaccine (let’s see the reaction when it’s a ‘protected class’ instead of wards of the state — I mean teenage girls).


15 posted on 02/18/2010 7:51:41 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: a fool in paradise

You know I know quite a few women have had breast cancer and I refuse to wear the pink ribbon, I also know a whole lot more men with prostate cancer, where are their ribbons?


16 posted on 02/18/2010 8:22:17 PM PST by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: tiki

Gardasil is the drug that’s effective against certain strains of the HPIV virus. The only reason for inculating men is that they are carriers, they can transmit the STD to women.


17 posted on 02/18/2010 9:06:50 PM PST by BenKenobi (;)
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