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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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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Women can buy the morning-after pill without a prescription, the government declared Thursday, a major step that nevertheless failed to quell the politically charged debate over access to emergency contraception.
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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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Merck &amp; Co Inc. on Thursday pulled its arthritis drug Vioxx off the market after a study showed it doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke, a move that sent its
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Merck & Co Inc. Thursday pulled its  arthritis drug Vioxx off the market because it increases the  risk of heart attack and stroke, a move that sent its shares  plunging, erasing $25 billion of its market value.
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By The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 5--Merck & Co. has plenty of reasons to want its new cervical-cancer vaccine to be mandatory for girls. Potentially billions of reasons.   The vaccine, Gardasil, has been judged safe.
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Merck & Co Inc's Gardasil, the first   vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, has been approved for sale   in the Europe Union, the joint venture that will market the   product in Europe said on Friday.
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Merck &#38; Co. has decided to stop supplying its drugs to Canadian pharmacies that export the medicines to patients in the United States, the company confirmed Thursday.
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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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THE Ministry of Health yesterday urged Jamaicans to immediately discontinue the use of the arthritis drug Vioxx (refecoxib), which was pulled off the market yesterday by its manufacturer Merck &amp; Co.
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Merck &amp; Co. is immediately suspending its lobbying campaign to persuade state legislatures to mandate that adolescent girls get the company's new vaccine against cervical cancer as a requirement for school attendance, the company said Tuesday.
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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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Merck&#39;s (MRK :NYSE - news - research) decision to withdraw its popular arthritis drug Vioxx from the market in late September has raised questions about the process leading up to its regulatory approval in 1999 as well as the importance of subsequent
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German doctors have been told to restrict the use of all anti-inflammatory drugs belonging to the same group of popular painkillers as Vioxx, the Merck product that was withdrawn because of safety fears.
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Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday angrily defended his relationship with Merck &amp; Co. and his executive order requiring that 11- and 12-year-old girls receive the drugmaker's vaccine against the sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.
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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...