Gardasil is Approved for Boys

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The vaccine Gardasil for the prevention of the human papillomavirus (HPV) won regulators’ approval for use in males, setting the stage for a debate over whether this will be profitable for Merck. Remember that is the real debate behind the scenes. The one about safety, or effectiveness is not quite as important. The driving force is profit. If you want to ensure your safety the only place to go is to your pocketbook. That is the vote of approval that pharmaceutical companies depend on.

Gardasil is approved for boys 9 years old and up. The Food and Drug Administration found Gardasil, to be safe and effective in protecting males from genital warts. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has to decide whether to recommend its routine use in boys. That could mandate inoculation and prompt insurers to pay for it. This is a vaccine that boys parents will be less likely to take advantage of.

When the FDA approved Gardasil’s use for girls and women in 2006, Merck was taken to task for the aggressive lobbying to get states to make inoculation a requirement for pre-teenage girls. The price of the vaccine was just under $400 for the three-dose regimen. I am sure they felt compelled to protect a 9 year old from sexually transmitted disease. Another way to look at it, and probably a lot more realistic. Merck generated revenues of 1.4 billion dollars last year.

The approval of the vaccine for boys could add $200 to $300 million in annual sales according to Bloomberg’s report. If it was a mandatory vaccine those figures would climb. Expanding the vaccines use could revive sales, which declined 5 per cent last year according to the Bloomberg article.

“This is an important milestone, because the use of Gardasil can now help protect boys and girls and young men and women from certain diseases caused by this common virus.” Said Richard Haupt, executive director of Merck Research Laboratories, in the companies statement. The funny part it would cost $100,000 to vaccinate enough boys for one year of additional life compared with less than $50,000 for girls, according to a study by Harvard University Researchers presented in June to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention.” This is from the Bloomberg report.

A good diet and exercise program will add many healthy years for a lot less money. The rational behind the vaccine is that  if you routinely inoculate boys you will prevent cervical cancer in women. The problem is that boys may not directly benefit from it. About 1% of sexually active males in the U.S. develop genital warts, which are not usually life threatening. The vaccinations would help women who can wind up with cervical cancer from the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus.

Their figures show that cervical cancer kills nearly 4,000 women in the U.S. each year. The CDC recommends that girls get vaccinated against HPV, and schoolgirls in several states, and the District of Columbia are required to. So far 37% of adolescent women have gotten at least one dose, the agency says. Merck generated sales of $1.4 million last year, without assurances that this will protect anyone. The vaccine has been tracked for 5 years, a 11 year old will be 16 years old when the vaccine may lose its effectiveness, When has a company been so altruistic to mount this type marketing campaign.to save 4,000 people. Unless the possibility of $1.4 billion sweetened the pot.

Merck has tracked immunity for five years in women, and just three years in boys.The long-term effectiveness is not known. Just because Gardasil is approved for boys does not mean it is a good idea. John Barron’s quote “Never Mind that genital warts are about as common among middle-school boys as opera buffs “ says it all.

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