Gardasil

Developing Nations to Get Gardasil at Lesser Rates from Merck Soon

Pharma giant Merck and Co., hopes to offer Gardasil, to developing countries at affordable rates.// Gardasil, marketed by Merck is the only vaccine against Human Papilloma Virus, that is insinuated to cause the deadly cervical cancer. Statistics reveal that cervical cancer is rampant in dev...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine Gardasil Included In Subsidized CDC program

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has decided to include Gardasil , Merck & Co.Inc's new cervical cancer vaccine // in its Vaccines for Children program. The program is government subsidized and covers uninsured or poor schoolchildren upto age 18 . The vaccine which was ...

School Vaccination Program to Include Cancer Drug Gardasil

The Government of Australia has decided to include Gardasil in the national immunization program from next year. The drug is effective for treating cervical cancer. The// immunization program is expected to cover high schools from April, 2007. All girls, between the ages of 12 and 18 will benefi...

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... cancer in its most curable stage. Additionally, Gardasil, an FDA-approved vaccine, has also been recommended to reduce the risk of cervical cancer. gardasil protects against HPV, a virus that is the leading cause of cervical cancer. ...

Sanofi-aventis Announces Good First-quarter 2009 Performance

...ur MSD (not consolidated by sanofi-aventis), the joint-venture with Merck & Co in Europe, were down 8.7% on a reported basis at euro 254 million. gardasil (R) , the first vaccine licensed in Europe against papillomavirus infection (a major cause of cervical cancer), were 25.6% lower at euro 121 million,...

PhRMA Honors Gardasil(r) Researchers With Discoverers Award

...ufacture large, commercially viable amounts of the gardasil vaccine; and Kathrin Jansen, Ph.D. (currently at ...e thrilled that the Merck scientists who worked on gardasil are being recognized with such a prestigious honor... record $65.2 billion in 2008. Footnote gardasil is approved for the prevention of cervical, vulvar...

Pitt vaccine to prevent colon cancer being tested in patients

...tly in use to prevent cancer work via a different mechanism, specifically by blocking infection with viruses that are linked with cancer. For example, gardasil protects against human papilloma virus associated with cervical cancer and hepatitis B vaccine protects against liver cancer. "By stimulating an im...

1 in 4 California adolescent girls has had HPV vaccine

...emselves, while 57 percent of parents of age-eligible girls reported an interest in getting the HPV vaccine for their daughters. The HPV vaccine gardasil was licensed for use by the Food and Drug Administration in June 2006 and recommended for routine use by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...

Sanofi-aventis Delivers 2008 Results Above Guidance

... down 7.5% on a reported basis at EUR 348 million. Fourth quarter sales of gardasil (R) , the first vaccine licensed in Europe against papillomavirus infectio... million, an increase of 21.8% on a reported basis. Full-year net sales of gardasil (R) were EUR 584 million, compared with EUR 342 million in 2007. ...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine Well Tolerated

...analyzed data after more than 380,000 doses of the gardasil vaccine were given to girls in secondary schools beginning in April 2007. gardasil protects against four types of human papillomaviru...rs said. Nineteen girls had skin testing of the gardasil vaccine, and all were negative. Seventeen of 18 gi...

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Gardasil in Medical Technology

Data Published in The Lancet Show Gardasil was 100 Percent Effective in Preventing High-Grade Vulvar and Vaginal Lesions Caused by HPV Types 16 and 18

WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2007 - Results published this week in The Lancet show that Merck's cervical cancer vaccine, GARDASIL (Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (Types 6, 11, 16, 18) Recombinant Vaccine) was 100 percent effective in preventing high-grade vulvar and vaginal...

The First Annual Cervical Cancer/HPV Conference Tackles Controversial Vaccine Issues and Encourages Advocacy

...more than 70 percent of HPV infections -- Type 16 is responsible for more than half of all cervical cancers, which Cervarix (GlaxoSmithKline) and gardasil (Merck) are designed to specifically target Attending the conference were women, their families and friends from across the United States, all of...

New England Journal of Medicine Publishes New Data on Gardasil, Merck's Cervical Cancer Vaccine

... 16, 18) Recombinant Vaccine). In the first study, gardasil provided 100 percent protection against cervical, ...l and vulvar diseases caused by the four HPV types gardasil is designed to protect against, HPV types 6, 11, 1...r approval of GARDASIL. "In these two studies, gardasil demonstrated significant protection against seriou...

Testing for Human Papillomavirus

...th men has a high risk for anal neoplasia, however, especially for those with HIV infections. The recent promising results of the multi-country gardasil vaccine Phase 3 clinical study showed that the vaccine, which targets HPVs 16 and 18, was 100% effective in preventing HPV 16/18-related moderate and ...

Gardasil in Biological News

African-Americans aware and accepting, but often do not receive, the HPV vaccine

...essor of medicine in the Infectious Diseases Division of the University of Pennsylvania. The HPV vaccine, approved for use in the United States as gardasil and manufactured by Merck and Co., has been shrouded in controversy since it was released in June 2006. Frank said the controversies break down into...

Fungi the cause of many outbreaks of disease but mostly ignored

...chnology," according to Joseph Heitman of the Duke University Medical Center, the other co-chair of the colloquium. "Both the hepatitis B vaccine and gardasil (the vaccine for papilloma virus) are produced in yeast," he notes. The importance of fungi to human health, agriculture, the environment, and indu...

Study shows continued success for new HPV vaccine against virus responsible for cervical cancer

...series of three shots of a new HPV vaccine marketed by Merck under the name gardasil could make the difference in preventing cervical cancer. The vaccine targe...ntive or prophylactic vaccine Ð that's why it is given to adolescents. gardasil was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last year for use in ...

Gardasil in Biological Technology

Sanofi-aventis Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results

... Europe, were down 14.9% on a reported basis at euro 233 million. Sales of gardasil ((R)) , for the prevention of papillomavirus infections (a major cause of ...crease was due to extensive catch-up campaigns in the prior year. Excluding gardasil ((R)) , sales of the rest of the portfolio were stable. First-half sales at...