Merck suspends lobbying for HPV vaccine
Yahoo! News
02/20/07
Merck & Co., bowing to pressure from parents and medical groups, 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 drug maker, which announced the change Tuesday, had been criticized for quietly funding the campaign, via a third party, to require 11- and 12-year-old girls get the three-dose vaccine in order to attend school...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_on_bi_ge/merck_cancer_vaccine
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=HPV+vaccine
02/20/07
Merck & Co., bowing to pressure from parents and medical groups, 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 drug maker, which announced the change Tuesday, had been criticized for quietly funding the campaign, via a third party, to require 11- and 12-year-old girls get the three-dose vaccine in order to attend school...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_on_bi_ge/merck_cancer_vaccine
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=HPV+vaccine
rudkla - 21. Feb, 14:54
