So what was the rush to treat little girls like lab rats?

Recall the dust-up in 2006 and 2007 when more than 20 states had drafted legislation to make HPV mandatory for school girls as young as 9? Merck eventually suspended its lobbying efforts because that HPV vaccines must be administered right now to every girl (put those Polly Pockets down sweetie, it’s time to talk about genital warts because Big Brother has mandated it). One even declared with complete certainty that “ Two vaccines against cervical cancer are being widely used without sufficient evidence about whether they are worth their high cost or even whether they will effectively stop women from getting the disease, two articles in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine conclude. Both vaccines target the human papillomavirus, a common sexually transmitted virus that usually causes no symptoms and is cleared by the... [read full story]