{"id":18483,"date":"2009-10-15T15:10:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T20:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=18483"},"modified":"2009-10-15T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T20:25:33","slug":"hpv-vaccination-gardasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/hpv-vaccination-gardasi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Risks and Benefits of HPV Vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/figcaption><\/figure>Editor’s Note:<\/strong> There has been some discussion, though not enough, of the safety of the Gardasil vaccine for HPV, which is supposed to protect women against cervical cancer. Beth Bagner, my friend and co-conspirator, is a registered nurse who follows this issue closely. She sent me this editorial from the <\/em>Journal of the American Medical Association that has the guts to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry and the lock-step thinking of the American medical establishment, which usually says ‘inject first, ask questions later’. We need to be asking the same questions now, not later, about other trendy vaccines. The author is a doctor from Norway named Charlotte Haug. — efc<\/em><\/p>\n

WHEN DO PHYSICIANS know enough about the beneficial effects of a new medical intervention to start recommending or using it? When is the available information about harmful adverse effects sufficient to conclude that the risks outweigh the potential benefits? If in doubt, should physicians err on the side of caution or on the side of hope? These questions are at the core of all medical decision making. It is a complicated process because medical knowledge is typically incomplete and ambiguous. It is especially complex to make decisions about whether to use drugs that may prevent disease in the future, particularly when these drugs are given to otherwise healthy individuals. Vaccines are examples of such drugs, and the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine is a case in point.<\/p>\n

Read more in the Journal of the American Medical Association<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: There has been some discussion, though not enough, of the safety of the Gardasil vaccine for HPV, which is supposed to protect women against cervical cancer. Beth Bagner, my friend and co-conspirator, is a registered nurse who follows this issue closely. She sent me this editorial from the Journal of the American Medical … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}