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Gardasil, the FDA, and VAERS: How Americans concerned about vaccines interact with government

By Marci Greenstein | Dec 14 2010 at 10:23 | Your take (11)

Emily Tarsell thought she had enough information about Gardasil — a new vaccine marketed to young women to prevent certain types of cervical cancer — when she agreed to have her daughter receive the vaccine.  But after her third and last injection of Gardasil, in 2008, Christina Tarsell, a previously healthy 21-year old, was dead.

The depth of this family’s anguish at the death of their daughter can’t be conveyed.  But after some time (more…)

Topics: Centers for Disease Control, Food & Drug Administration, Free Agency, health, Product Safety
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Slow Interagency Response Delays Solutions on Defective Chinese Drywall

By Marci Greenstein | Apr 20 2010 at 11:53 | Your take

Gut your homes. That’s the advice the federal government gave homeowners whose houses smell of rotten eggs and have corroding electrical wiring because they were built with defective drywall imported from China between 2003 and 2008.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) made the startling recommendation in a joint statement, saying the importehttps://understandinggov.org/files/tag/d drywall might be a health hazard and that residents should “remove all possible problem drywall from their homes, and replace electrical components and wiring, gas service piping, fire suppression sprinkler systems, smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms.” (more…)

Topics: Centers for Disease Control, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, Free Agency
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