Merck's Gardasil gets label warning for fainting and seizure-like activity
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The US label for Merck and Co's HPV vaccine Gardasil has been revised to make more prominent the risk for syncope (fainting), which can be accompanied by jerking movements and seizure-like activity, and the FDA is also evaluating whether to revise the labels of other vaccines for syncope.