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With promises of developing a blockbuster drug to treat 26 million Alzheimer's patients worldwide, research continues on bapineuzumab despite evidence it is not effective and may be targeting the wrong underlying cause of Alzheimer's.

Two women in the United Kingdom refuse a full body scan and are barred from boarding a plane. Monday expect upward of 490 full body scans to be found in U.S. airports to be deployed on a random basis.

Congress is showing renewed interst in full-body digital scanners after the Christmas day scare in a jet over Detroit. Even though they are not entirely reliable, well-connected lobbyists are pushing for their use and Senate hearings have been scheduled.

A 14-year-old girl in Britain died shortly after receiving her HPV vaccine Monday. Drug maker, GlaxoSmithKline has isolated that batch of the Cervarix vaccine. Cervarix is a direct competitor to Gardasil (Merck) and is seeking U.S. approval. The Gardasil vaccine is also thought to be responsible for a number of deaths.

Expect to see a back-to-school campaign for the Gardasil cervical cancer shot as sales for the Merck vaccine have been disappointing.

Head and neck cancer patients who test positive for the human papillomavirus (HPV) have a better survival rate than patients that don’t have the virus, according to new research published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.

A study in the British medical journal, The Lancet, finds the Gardasil rival drug for human papillomavirus, Cervarix is effective against five viruses, two most common virus types that cause HPV or human papillomavirus as well as three of the next most common cervical cancer causers. The study was funded by the vaccine maker, GlaxoSmithKline. 

Circumcision reduced cases of herpes and human papillomavirus in Ugandan men, say researchers from Johns Hopkins. Circumcision is already known to reduce HIV infections. Researchers are calling for higher circumcision rates. 

16-year-old Ashley Ryburn received one Gardasil vaccine along with a meningitis shot. Then she received another Gardasil shot, her second in the three-series vaccines.  She is now disabled, in pain, faints, has numb legs, not at all the athlete she used to be. 

The Gardasil vaccine, intended to prevent cervical cancer in girls and women shows strong signs of preventing genital warts in men, according to a new study funded by Merck, who manufactures Gardasil.

The debate about whether or not to require government mandates for immunizing girls with Gardasil, against human papillomavirus (HPV) is again the center of debate as three scholars argue that local and state government should not require cervical cancer vaccinations for constitutional and public health reasons.

U.S. Marshals seized 11 lots of Heparin from Celsus Laboratories Inc. The FDA found the products, manufactured from material imported from China, to be contaminated with OSCS, a substance that imitates heparin’s blood thinning activity.

Twenty-five thousand cases of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cancers occurred in 38 states and the District of Columbia annually during 1998-2003, according to studies conducted by CDC.

Harvard Medical School researchers have found four new areas that affect the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. They say the findings may eventually help pave the way to new Alzheimer’s treatment options.

The CDC and FDA are both promoting the use of Gardasil in an unprecedented way.  Reporting on the two-year post-approval monitoring the the drug, the CDC says its safe and the 20 plus deaths are not related to the vaccine.