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Pap Awareness Week urges all women to get regular pap tests
Pap Awareness Week is taking place in British Columbia from June 8 to June 13. The B.C Cancer Agency is offering all women in the province the chance to have a pap test at designated walk in clinics and want to... 
Discoverers of HIV virus win share of Nobel Medicine Prize
Considering the serious challange posed by HIV, Nobel prize committe has decided to give this year's award to the scientists who discovered HIV. The Scientists will share the Nobel prize for medicine with the... 
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... 
New virus test may stop cervical cancer in rural women
A new rapid test for the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer, has proven to be 90 percent accurate in a trial involving women in rural villages in eastern China. The trial involved 2,388...
What is cervical cancer?
This week see's the start of the UK government's campaign to fight cervical cancer by offering free inocculation against the virus that causes it to all female children between 11 and 18 years old starting with...
US Scientists to test if cancer cure can work in humans
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorIf this proves promising and a cancer cure is the result. Other News of problems plaguing us, such as high gas prices, global warming, wars, economy etc will be... 
created by Barry Artiste | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Row over cervical cancer vaccine for girls
Penny pinching around important health issues like this can't be a good thing. If it's worth doing do it well. The task now, which ever vaccine is used, is to get the capaign right so that as many young girls take up the offer of the vaccine, which is best done before they...NEJM Report Finds HPV Test More Effective Than Pap in Determining Cervical Ca...
"The study, which involved more than 10,000 Canadian women age 30-69, found that the HPV test's sensitivity -- its ability to accurately identify women with pre-cancerous cervical cells or cancer -- was 94.6 percent, compared to 55.4 percent for the Pap. HPV (humanpapilloma...
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 | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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831 views | 15 recommendations | 6 comments
MD journal raises doubt over cervical cancer vaccine
"MD journal raises doubt over cervical cancer vaccine Joanne Laucius, CanWest News Service Published: Thursday, August 02, 2007 OTTAWA -- It's too early for Canada to immunize all girls and women against a virus that causes cervical cancer, says a bombshell article published...
Nova Scotia to fund HPV vaccine
I am still in doubt as to whether or not the HPV vaccine is really necessary (most doctors will tell you that regular pap smears are as effective in predicting and preventing HPV and cervical cancer) and whether...
Germany introduces cancer jab
"Young girls in Germany are to be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer. Italian health officials have also recommended 12-year old girls are immunised against human papillomavirus. The issue has been controversial as some parents fear a vaccine against a...
Daffodil Day in Ireland calls for improved services
Today is Ireland's Daffodil Day--an annual event that calls attention to and raises funds for cancer research and treatment. The event has called attention to an deficiency in available cancer screening and... Texas Governor Perry took Merck money before mandating cervical vaccine
Yeahhhhhhhh!!!! We know the government is loaded with criminals and we are coming after you!!! - DTHDavid Edwards and Mike Sheehan -Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) says that it's just a coincidence that he and
eight other lawmakers received donations of $5,000 each from... 
Lobbying for Vaccine to Be Halted
ANDREW POLLACK and STEPHANIE SAUL - Reacting to a furor from some parents, advocacy groups and public health experts, Merck said yesterday that it would stop lobbying state legislatures to require the use of its...
created by DIG THE HEAVY | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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