TX gov seeks to require HPV vaccines

[Sundae]

Sounds like typical drug company spin to me. I deal with reps on a daily basis, and while I'm sure there are good honest professional reps out there, many of them will tell you that their new product will solve all the problems of the western world if you give it half a chance.

I certainly wouldn't want my niece injected with this until some more evidence regarding its safety and efficacy was forthcoming.

[Shawnee123]

My mom has worked in the immunization clinic for years, providing all kinds of vaccines for lower income families.

If a vaccine such as this were mandated certainly the sliding scale would apply to it.

I for one am just glad someone spent some time working on a medicine that has nothing to do with men being able to have a sustainable hard-on. Next, lets work on ovarian cancer, that highly deadly and barely perceptible killer. Or lets work on detecting breast cancer without smashing a woman's breast in two.

I had a friend who died of cervical cancer when she was 34 years old. That is 8 years younger than I am now, though she was older than me at the time. I was mid 20's.

If it weren't too late for me to get said vaccine, I would be banging down the door right now to get it. Women's cancers scare me.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I for one am just glad someone spent some time working on a medicine that has nothing to do with men being able to have a sustainable hard-on. Next, lets work on ovarian cancer, that highly deadly and barely perceptible killer. Or lets work on detecting breast cancer without smashing a woman's breast in two.

That's really not how medical research works. It's not some big plot to keep women down.

Viagra, if I recall correctly, was discovered accidentally. The research was really being done in the area of cardiovascular disease which is the number one (or maybe 2) killer, and Viagra came out of that. Once Viagra came out, and was a huge money maker, the other pharma companies jumped on the easy money bandwagon. All the hard work was already done, and it was free money.

Research into different medical areas is done based on how likely success will be and how big the $$ payoff might be. So the more widespread a problem, the bigger the market and the more research in that area. Also, if an area is pretty well understood and it's easy to launch new drugs in that area, it will see a lot of interest.

It's not a bunch of men smoking cigars in some back room looking for new ways to screw over women.