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Parents Who Smoke More Positive Re: HPV Vaccine
Researcher Carolyn Y. Fang, associate professor in the Cancer Preventionand Control Progam at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia has released information in the February copy of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers... U.S. Girls in Need of Sex Education
A report published in the journal Pediatrics has pointed out the need for girls in the U.S. to get extensive sex education. The author of the study Dr. Sami L. Gottlieb has called for sex education in order...
created by Barbara McPherson | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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565 views | 28 recommendations | 2 comments
Study shows circumcision reduces infection of HPV, Herpes and HIV
New data from an African trial is showing reduced contraction rates for both HPV and herpes. This same study showed the reduction of HIV transmission by 50%. Currently, the American Academy of Pediatrics does not endorse neonatal circumcision. As a result of this new... Serious Concerns Continue to Grow Over Use of HPV Drug GARDASIL
Since it's approval in the summer of 2006 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 5 million girls and women, ages 9 to 26, have been vaccinated with GARDASIL.
GARDASIL, aggressively marketed by Merck &...
created by Karen Hatter | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
1212 views | 45 recommendations | 11 comments
1212 views | 45 recommendations | 11 comments
Britons 'among Mumbai attackers'
Some reports seem to indicated that British citizens were involeved in the Mumbai attacks. However, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said it was to early to say Britons were involved. "But Indian Chief Minister... Merck approves use of its HPV vaccine Gardasil in males
Human papillomavirus, or HPV, is an oncogenic virus implicated in causing nearly 100% of all cervical cancer cases, but it does not just target females. It also infects males, and can cause anal, penile, neck...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
1574 views | 10 recommendations | 4 comments
1574 views | 10 recommendations | 4 comments
Manchester Catholic School Bans Cancer Vaccination
A Catholic school in Manchester, UK has banned their 12 and 13 year old female students from receiving immunization against cervical cancer at the high school, even though the NHS vaccination program has been approved by Britain's Catholic Education Service. The vaccine...
created by Terri Potratz | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
183 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
183 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
UPDATE: What's the Latest News on GARDASIL?
Update: Effective July 1, 2008, in a press release dated July 24, 2008, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, adding human papillomavirus to the required list of vaccinations required when...
created by Karen Hatter | 3 years ago | updated 2 years ago
5962 views | 72 recommendations | 37 comments
5962 views | 72 recommendations | 37 comments
Tree man 'who grew roots' may be cured
I've been imagining what this guy's life has been like. I'm not sure if there are words to describe how hard his life has been. He got a cut on his knee as a teenager, and as a result he eventually lost his job, his wife, his ability to take care of himself, was ridiculed and...
created by James Pate | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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5645 views | 0 recommendations | 3 comments
The Politics and PR of Cervical Cancer
The Center for Media and Democracy has completed a four part series of articles, The Politics and PR of Cervical Cancer, about the first FDA approved human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine GARDASIL,...
created by Karen Hatter | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
4262 views | 25 recommendations | 7 comments
4262 views | 25 recommendations | 7 comments
HPV test beats Pap in detecting cervical cancer
Much controversy has surround HPV during the last year - especially with Merck pushing its vaccine onto young teenage girls. NowPublic's very own babblingdweeb provides an excellent review of the virus and...
created by ScienceDave | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
886 views | 15 recommendations | 6 comments
886 views | 15 recommendations | 6 comments
NPR not Allowed to say "genital warts" ?
Whatever happened to the journalist's obligation to inform the public? I listened to this interview conducted by NPR's Linda Wertheimer with Dr. Jeanne Santoli of the CDC and came away stunned at how they could omit the two most obvious and important points of the whole...
created by ChristophrHiestr | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
1571 views | 10 recommendations | 9 comments
1571 views | 10 recommendations | 9 comments
Ten Facts about HPV and GARDASIL
The invitation to vaccination campaign, initiated by Merck, promoting their product, GARDASIL, the first vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use...
created by Karen Hatter | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
7031 views | 25 recommendations | 12 comments
7031 views | 25 recommendations | 12 comments
The Silent Global Killer: Human Papillomavirus
The STD Human Papillomavirus has a funny name, but most people know it as: HPV. I have four people close to me that know they have HPV -they are far from "the town tart" that you might want to label them as. In...
created by babblingdweeb | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
2432 views | 10 recommendations | 6 comments
2432 views | 10 recommendations | 6 comments
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