In These Times started running "Health & Science" in January 2006. Below are three updates. Gag me with a campaign Merck's force-it-down-consumers'-throats-campaign for Gardasil proved a powerful emetic. The new vaccine protects against two of the HPV strains that cause 70 percent of cervical cancers, but consumers [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Reader Comments
The issue should first be to get insurance to pay for this very important vaccine (Gardasil).
Mandating it as a public health measure is also a good idea.
“Mandating” anything is a very bad idea.
Suberbugs: this is another thing we saw on the horizon and failed to deal with until it exploded onto the scene as a big problem.
And the beat goes on…
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