When The Cure Is Worse Than The Disease: Merck Finally Admits Their Shingles Vaxx Causes Blindness

When The Cure Is Worse Than The Disease: Merck Finally Admits Their Shingles Vaxx Causes Blindness
Blinded By The Light: Merck Finally Reveals That Its Shingles Vaccine Can Cause Blindness Sometimes it feels like there’s a cure coming out for everything. There are so many studies, research papers and conferences illuminating this or that disease and some new breakthrough that promises to send it the way of the dodo that it is hard to keep up. That is partly a result of a Wild West mentality with pharmaceutical companies right now; in the U.S.… Read the rest

Personalized Cancer Vaccines On The Horizon For Merck, Along With Big, Big Profits

Personalized Cancer Vaccines On The Horizon For Merck, Along With Big, Big Profits
Merck To Launch Partnership With Biotech Giant Moderna To Develop Personalized Messenger-RNA Anti-Cancer Vaccines One thing they didn’t foresee in all those hopeful, idealistic classic science fiction books was that when the future comes, it will come first for the very very rich. To wit, consider the announcement that Merck is going to partner with biotech leader Moderna Therapeutics to develop a commercial application for personalized cancer vaccinations.… Read the rest