Mealey's (August 4, 2022, 4:02 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Aug 4 ordered that 40 federal lawsuits involving the Gardasil human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine be centralized, a move that manufacturing defendant Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC had told the court would be “unprecedented” in the history of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (the Vaccine Act)....