Talk:Gardasil

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[edit] Invention of HPV VLPs

As stated in the helpful review article, "Who Invented the VLP Cervical Cancer Vaccines?" (PMID 16595773), the development of the current virus-like particle (VLP) vaccines was an incremental process involving research in several different research groups. For example, Ian Frazer (note Z not S) and colleagues' first report concerning VLP production concluded that the major capsid protein L1 cannot self-assemble to form VLPs (see abstract of PMID 1656586). This major error was corrected by other groups who were ultimately awarded patents for the VLP technologies. Attributing the invention of the vaccine exclusively to Ian Frazer is at best a half-truth and clearly isn't NPOV. Retroid 20:57, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge into "HPV Vaccine"?

Is there a need to have a separate article for each brand of a medicinal product? If we have an article for every brand of drug on the market, the amount of articles will be tremendous. Wouldn't it make more sense to merge Gardasil and the other brand of HPV vaccine, Cervarix, into the article HPV Vaccine? Jkpjkp 18:24, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

While I can appreciate not wanting a page for all medicines on the market, it is possible that people who want to find information will only know the name of the medicine. If these articles are merged, will a search bring people to the appropriate page? 71.233.8.90 21:50, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Only available to women

I understand this vaccine is new, but why is it restricted to young girls?? I am a young bisexual male at increased risk for HPV yet no doctor or clinic will administer the vaccine to me.

I hope it does not become discontinued like the Lyme disease vaccine (due to poor sales). Restricting a vaccine against a virus that infects 40 percent of the population makes absolutely no sense. This is a terrible way to introduce it to the market.