Merck Ends Push for Mandatory Shots for Girls
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Public reaction forced the drug manufacturer to ends its lobbying efforts in state legislatures on behalf of a vaccine.
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Drugmaker Merck &amp; Co., under financial siege since pulling its top painkiller Vioxx off the market in September, said Monday it has adopted a plan that
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WASHINGTON - A painkiller linked to potentially fatal heart disease may contribute to hardening of the arteries in young women. Merck and Co&#39;s arthritis drug Vioxx was pulled from the market in September after
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RICHMOND, March 2 -- Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Friday that he has decided to sign legislation requiring all sixth-grade girls to get immunized against a virus that causes cervical cancer if their parents don't object.
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Amy Groff has heard all about the new vaccine that guards girls against a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. But the Cincinnati mother has no interest in getting her 11-year-old inoculated. Because of the uncertainties, some doctors are telling parents of young girls to wait...
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Weeks before pharmaceutical giant Merck &amp; Co. sent seismic waves through the medical community, pulling its painkiller Vioxx off the market, it announced the drug had been approved for children.
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By Emily Ramshaw, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 18--AUSTIN -- Advocates of mandatory HPV vaccines for Texas schoolgirls rest their case on sound science -- medical evidence that a few shots could nearly eradicate the sexually transmitted disease and the cancer it can cause.
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Merck & Co Inc. on Thursday pulled its  arthritis drug Vioxx off the market because it increases the  risk of heart attack and stroke, a move that sent the company's  shares plunging, erasing $25 billion of its market value.
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NEW YORK  - Legislation recently passed in  Texas limits adolescents' ability to obtain confidential  reproductive health care services. Although the goal is to  curtail adolescent sexual activity, these laws are likely to  backfire, according to the authors of a new study.
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Health officials said on Friday they had dropped plans to keep a public list of prescription drugs with emerging safety concerns, one of the measures proposed after Merck & Co.'s 2004 withdrawal of its arthritis drug Vioxx.
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Merck & Co. said on Thursday withdrew its arthritis drug Vioxx globally after a colon cancer trial confirmed long-standing concerns the drug raises the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Merck Labs has pulled Vioxx, their arthritis drug, off the market after discovering during trials the possibility of a link to stroke or heart attack.
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The British government took a step Wednesday toward offering vaccinations against cervical cancer for girls as young as 12,  a measure that could be carried out by late next year.
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Michigan girls entering the sixth grade next year would have to be vaccinated against cervical cancer under legislation backed Tuesday by a bipartisan group of female lawmakers.
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State legislators moved to nullify an executive order that required girls to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
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Merck & Co. MRK.N said on Thursday  withdrew its arthritis drug Vioxx globally after a colon cancer  trial confirmed long-standing concerns the drug raises the risk  of heart attack and stroke.
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Texas became the first U.S. state  to require that all 11- and 12-year-old girls be vaccinated  against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, a sexually  transmitted disease that can cause cervical cancer, the  governor's office said on Friday.