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HPV Vaccines Can Kill And They Do!
Conclusion Just from the evidence that I have provided, HPV vaccines clearly are not safe, and yet no government to date has ever banned these vaccines. Other products have been banned for far less dangers, so why is a vaccine that has killed 140 women and children and maimed thousands of others been allowed to stay on the market? To offer the HPV vaccine to newborn babies along with the hepatitis B vaccine is pure evil. Many babies are born prematurely and we have to ask ourselves what the impact of these two highly dangerous and toxic vaccines given at the same time will be. We also need to question why newborn babies ne...
Source: vactruth.com - August 10, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Writers Adverse Events Cervarix gardasil Hepatitis B vaccine HPV Vaccine Vaccine Death VAERS Source Type: blogs

Palliative Care Is About Quality Of Life Throughout The Cancer Journey
A newspaper story last week caught my eye when it headlined: "Senators Revive Push for End-of-Life-Care Planning." It reported on new legislation making the rounds in Washington to address care planning for those with advanced illnesses. You remember "end of life care planning," don't you? It was part of the Affordable Care Act debate several years ago, and quickly became translated into "death panels" where opponents made the argument that the government wanted to help people decide not to receive needed treatment. That was a moment that will live in my memory forever, and it's not a pleasant memory. So here we are with t...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - August 9, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Access to care Breast Cancer Cancer Care Cervical Cancer Colon Cancer Lung Cancer Media Other cancers Prostate Cancer Rectal Cancer Research Survivors Treatment Source Type: blogs

Egg Donors Create Support Group for Women and Push for More Safety Data
by Raquel Cool co-founder of We Are Egg Donors I recently decided to retire as an egg donor. This choice is clearly right for me, and although I speak for myself and note that the views expressed below are my own, I know that there are others who share my concerns. Months ago, I viewed a slideshow by Dr. Jennifer Schneider in which she said that donors are treated more like vendors than patients [Ed note: Schneider's daughter, a three-time egg donor, died of colon cancer at age 31]. That statement has stayed with me. In my experience, the egg extraction process is streamlined, impersonal and automated. Each busy specialis...
Source: Our Bodies Our Blog - July 30, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Activism & Resources Reproductive Technology & Genetic Engineering egg donation Source Type: blogs

Michael Douglas got throat cancer from oral sex. Really?
Guess what. It’s might be true. How can this be? It turns out that about one-third or perhaps more of throat cancers (specifically called oropharyngeal – referring to the back of the mouth and the throat) are associated with an infection called human papilloma virus or HPV. HPV is a common sexually transmitted (by the standard way) infection that affects most women at some time in their lives and is the major, maybe only, cause of cervical cancer. That is why we have developed vaccines for this virus to give to girls before they become sexually active. If every young woman were vaccinated before becoming sexually activ...
Source: Dr.Kattlove's Cancer Blog - July 26, 2013 Category: Oncologists Source Type: blogs

HPV Vaccination Rates Are Flat Among Teenage Girls: CDC
Despite repeated urging from health officials that teenage girls should receive an HPV vaccine, new data show vaccination rates in girls between the ages of 13 and 17 did not increase from 2011 to 2012. And administration of the complete three-dose regimen declined slightly year-over-year, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This marks the first year that coverage did not rise. Vaccination coverage with at least one dose reached 25.1 percent in 2007, the first full year after which the Gardasil vaccine was approved by the FDA, and hit 53 percent by 2011. But in 2012, the needle – pun intended ...
Source: Pharmalot - July 25, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs

How to reduce the risk of oral cancer
The fact that cunnilingus increases a man’s risk of developing oral cancer has been all over the Internet recently with Michael Douglas’ disclosure that he had an HPV-positive tumor. To recap: some strains of human papilloma virus (HPV) are oncogenic, meaning they induce changes in a cell’s DNA that can lead to cancer. The same strains of HPV that are oncogenic in the genital tract for women, causing both cervical cancer and anal cancer, can also wreak havoc on cells in the oral cavity. As an aside, HPV can also cause anal cancer for men. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Man...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 21, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Conditions Infectious disease OB/GYN Source Type: blogs

Deaths in Painkiller Overdoses Rise Sharply Among Women - NYTimes.com
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — Prescription pain pill addiction was originally seen as a man's problem, a national epidemic that began among workers doing backbreaking labor in the coal mines and factories of Appalachia. But a new analysis of federal data has found that deaths in recent years have been rising far faster among women, quintupling since 1999.More women now die of overdoses from pain pills like OxyContin than from cervical cancer or homicide. And though more men are dying, women are catching up, according to the analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the problem is hitting white women harde...
Source: Psychology of Pain - July 3, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Why do we even bother?
I often ask myself. I'm at the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, which as I believe I mentioned is the bit health services research shindig. What most of these people do is crunch huge so-called administrative data sets -- that's like Medicare and Medicaid billing data, for example, combined with other available data that give some idea of outcomes, be it deaths or diagnoses  -- so they can look at things like hospital admissions and readmissions, screening rates, and other outcomes associated with various policies and practices. The idea is to inform policy makers. If you ask almost anybody here, they'll tell y...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs

HPV Vaccines Are Lowering Infection Rates Among Teenage Girls
The HPV vaccines may be controversial, but they are proving effective. A new study finds that the prevalence of the human papillomavirus, which can lead to cervical cancer, dropped by roughly half among teenage girls between the ages of 14 and 19 years old during the four years following the 2006 introduction of the first vaccine, the Gardasil shot that is sold by Merck (MRK). The findings, which were published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, are significant not only because it signals the vaccination campaign is apparently succeeding, but has also done so amid continual debate over the safety and veracity of the va...
Source: Pharmalot - June 20, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs

Cervical Cancer Screening with Vinegar in Less Developed Countries
In an earlier note about two years ago, I discussed how vinegar applied to the uterine cervix could be used as a simple test in developing countries to detect dysplasia (see: Replacing the Pathologist and Gynecologist with Vinegar and CO2). Here's a quote from that note: Nurses using the new procedure, developed by experts at the Johns Hopkins medical school in the 1990s and endorsed last year by the World Health Organization, brush vinegar on a woman’s cervix. It makes precancerous spots turn white. They can then be immediately frozen off with a metal probe cooled by a tank of carbon dioxide, available from an...
Source: Lab Soft News - June 20, 2013 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Delivery Medical Consumerism Medical Education Medical Research Public Health Informatics Surgical Pathology Source Type: blogs

Study Finds Sharp Drop in HPV Infections in Girls – NYTimes.com
The prevalence of dangerous strains of the human papillomavirus — the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States and a principal cause of cervical cancer — has dropped by half among teenage girls in the last decade, a striking measure of success for a vaccine that was introduced only in 2006, federal health […]
Source: Biosingularity - June 19, 2013 Category: Research Authors: Derya Tags: Biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Study Finds Sharp Drop in HPV Infections in Girls – NYTimes.com
The prevalence of dangerous strains of the human papillomavirus — the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States and a principal cause of cervical cancer — has dropped by half among teenage girls in the last decade, a striking measure of success for a vaccine that was introduced only in 2006, federal health […]
Source: Biosingularity - June 19, 2013 Category: Research Authors: Derya Tags: Biotechnology Source Type: blogs

As ASCO wraps up, docs are talking about cancer research while patients are talking about HPV and throat cancer
ASCO is the American Society of Clinical Oncology. It's the biggest professional cancer conference that draws a huge international crowd in Chicago every year. The city of Chicago sees a huge surge of tourism activity around this conference every summer. In somewhat unrelated news, CBS published a story about Michael Douglas, his throat cancer, and HPV - the virus that causes cervical cancer, penile cancer, vulvar cancer, anal cancer, and oral cancers. In his case, his cancer risk was especially high because of his history of alcohol and tobacco use combined with HPV infection. So, while doctors are buzzing about the lat...
Source: Medicine and Technology by Dr. Joseph Kim - June 4, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: STD ASCO HPV cancer Source Type: blogs

It's Guns vs. Butter (Again): How Do We Reconcile Expensive Cancer Treatments With The Need To Improve The Basics Of Cancer Care?
As we walk the halls and sit in the lectures at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, there's an elephant in the room. It is right there in front of us, but not many of us seem willing to talk about it. Fewer still are making any commitments to do something about it. So what is this ubiquitous juxtaposition that is right in front of us but we can't seem to see? It is the contrast between incredibly sophisticated science and computer data that will help us understand cancer and its treatment vs. the reality that we can't have medical records that really work. It is the fact that we have million do...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - June 3, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Access to care Breast Cancer Cancer Care Cervical Cancer Colon Cancer Early detection Prevention Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy Rectal Cancer Research Screening Tobacco Treatment Source Type: blogs