Nadat reeds eerder de -aangetoond corrupte- Elsevier-redacteur Simon Rozendaal, winnaar van de GlaxoSmithKline Persprijs, zijn eigen dochter in de strijd wierp om ervoor te zorgen dat zo veel mogelijk meisjes zich laten inspuiten met Cervarix (meer via deze link), gaat NRC Handelsblad nog enkele stappen verder. Redactrice Monique Snoeijen gaat op een filmpje op nrc.tv met haar dochter Janne op ‘consult’ bij ‘medisch redacteur’ van de krant Wim Wonderpil Kohler (foto) om zich te laten ‘adviseren’ over het baarmoederhalskanker-vaccin. De uitkomst is maar al te voorspelbaar. Vraag blijft wat dit filmpje te maken heeft met journalistiek. Het had gemaakt kunnen zijn door GlaxoSmithKline.
One of the vaccines, Gardasil, from Merck, is made available to the poorest girls in the country, up to age 18, at a potential cost to the United States government of more than $1 billion; proposals to mandate the vaccine for girls in middle schools have been offered in 24 states, and one will take effect in Virginia this fall. Even the normally stingy British National Health Service will start giving the other vaccine — Cervarix, from GlaxoSmithKline — to all 12-year-old girls at school this September.
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Award-winning advertising has promoted the vaccines. Before the film “Sex and the City,†some moviegoers in the United States saw ads for Gardasil. On YouTube and in advertisements on popular shows like “Law and Order,†a multiethnic cast of young professionals urges girls to become “one less statistic†by getting vaccinated.
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The vaccine makers have also brought attention to cervical cancer by providing money for activities by patients’ and women’s groups, doctors and medical experts, lobbyists and political organizations interested in the disease, sometimes in ways that skirt disclosure requirements or obscure the companies’ involvement.
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But some experts worry about the consequences of the rapid rollout of the new vaccines without more medical evidence about how best to deploy them. They say that because of the aggressive marketing, even parents of girls who are far from being sexually active may feel pressured into giving them a vaccine that is not yet needed and whose long-term impact is still unclear. Legislative efforts to require girls to have the vaccine only add to the pressure.
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In the United States, hundreds of doctors have been recruited and trained to give talks about Gardasil — $4,500 for a lecture — and some have made hundreds of thousands of dollars. Politicians have been lobbied and invited to receptions urging them to legislate against a global killer. And former state officials have been recruited to lobby their former colleagues.
“There was incredible pressure from industry and politics,†said Dr. Jon Abramson, a professor of pediatrics at Wake Forest University who was chairman of the committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that recommended the vaccine for all girls once they reached 11 or 12.
“This big push is making people crazy — thinking they’re bad moms if they don’t get their kids vaccinated,†said Dr. Abby Lippman, a professor at McGill University in Montreal and policy director of the Canadian Women’s Health Network. Canada will spend $300 million on a cervical cancer vaccine program.
bron: The New York Times.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/health/policy/20vaccine.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=cervarix&st=cse
onze eerste reactie op Mengele’s uitspraken; is dit het onbevoegd manipuleren/uitoefenen van de geneeskunst? Bah wat een viezerik. En des meer een zege voor Micha inzake de nrc’s wonderpil. Wat een smeerlappen.
Voor de niet wetenden; Micha Kat verweet Wim Kohler er Mengele-praktijken op na te houden.
Mengele was Hitlers dr Death……. emzenz