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02‚ 2012 Summary #1: HPV Vaccine Texas Tyranny Mike Adams essay‚ “HPV Vaccine Texas Tyranny”‚ demonstrates that the order made by Rick Perry‚ bypassing all the legislatures‚ to mandate the vaccination of young girls with the HPV vaccine sold by Merck‚ one of his contributors in his campaign‚ is absolutely worthless and an outright fraud.(445-447) Adams assumes that reality of all this situation is the push of profits. Adams starts to support his argument by exposing the question “why don’t pledge
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Introduction In September 2004‚ Merck (the manufacturer of Vioxx) announced a voluntary worldwide withdrawal of Vioxx because of an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. Background on PGs and COX In general‚ all Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) act as cyclooxygenase inhibitor (COX)‚ it is an enzyme that catalyzes the formation of prostaglandins (PGs) from arachidonic acid. The first step in the synthesis of PGs is the release of the arachidonic acid from phospholipids in the
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Parents Pay Close Attention: Vaccine That Destroys the Reproductive Systems and Ovaries of Your Daughters The corporate Merck & Co. produces the HPV – human papilloma virus vaccine called Gardasil. The shocking news revealed by a recent research is that the company did not examine the effects of vaccine on the female reproductive system. Due to this terrible and huge mistake‚ a girl in Australia was left with completely destroyed ovaries. In this article‚ we will present the story about the
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1.Intro: A pharmaceutical drug (medicine or medication and officially medicinal product) is any chemical substance formulated or compounded as single active ingredient or in combination of other pharmacologically active substance‚ it may be in a separate but packed in a single unit pack as combination product intended for internal‚ or external or for use in the medical diagnosis‚ cure‚ treatment‚ or prevention of disease. 2. History: The development of small molecule therapeutic agents for
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The Legal and Ethical Issues of Death and Dying End of Life Issues Advance Directives Why do we need an advance directive? Physicians used to subjectively decide for the patient‚ and the patient did not have autonomy‚ such as CPR for cardiac arrest. Now this decision making has shifted to the patient. Most family members‚ having not been in an ICU before‚ are not prepared to make decisions. Physicians have a sense of whether the patient in the ICU is going to live or die. Typically
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Pain Management in the Elderly Pain is a complex‚ subjective‚ and unpleasant sensation derived from sensory stimuli and modified by memory‚ expectations and emotions (Merck & Co.‚ Inc.‚ 1995). It is a multidimensional and universally experienced phenomenon‚ however‚ the reactions and sensitivity to pain varies widely among individuals‚ especially for the geriatric population (65 years and older). Pain is a common experience for many elderly individuals that has negative consequences on their
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required for product approval characteristically are not constructed to identify rare and adverse effects. Take Vioxx for instance. Vioxx was a heavily promoted drug in the late 1990s and early 2000s. With over $100 million spent in advertising by Merck‚ the drug raked in over $1 billion annually. Asking for Vioxx‚ thinking it was a superior medication‚ patients were not aware that the drug could lead to heart attacks
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2013] Pfizer (2012) Pfizer (2011) Annual Review and Financial Statements 2011. New York: Pfizer Inc. Novartis (2011) Annual Review and Financial Statements 2011. Basel: Novartis AG Novartis (2012) Merck & Co. (2012) About Us [Online] http://www.merck.com/about/home.html [accessed 28th December 2012] Merck & Co Sanofi (2012) Our Company [Online] http://en.sanofi.com/our_company/our_company.aspx [accessed 28th December 2012] Sanofi (2011) Annual review and Financial Statements 2011 AstraZeneca
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