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In an Aug. 2 story, The Associated Press reported that a visual screening test for cervical cancer could not be used in women who had had more than two or three children. The story should have noted that other experts say the test can be used for all women except those who are post-menopausal.
A cheap method to detect cervical cancer using vinegar, cotton gauze and a bright light could save millions of women in the developing world, experts reported Friday.
Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday said he won't veto a bill that would block state officials from following his order that all sixth-grade girls be vaccinated against a virus that causes cervical cancer.
Texas lawmakers rejected Gov. Rick Perry's anti-cancer vaccine order Wednesday, sending him a bill that blocks state officials from requiring the shots for at least four years.
One in four U.S. women ages 14 to 59 is infected with the sexually transmitted virus that in some forms can cause cervical cancer, according to the first broad national estimate.
A group of families has sued in an attempt to block Gov. Rick Perry's executive order requiring schoolgirls to be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer.
Several key Republicans urged Gov. Rick Perry on Monday to rescind his executive order making Texas the first state to require girls to be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
Some conservatives and parents' rights groups worry that requiring girls to get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer would condone premarital sex and interfere with the way they raise their children.
Merck & Co. is helping bankroll efforts to pass state laws requiring girls as young as 11 or 12 to receive the drugmaker's new vaccine against the sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.
Michigan girls entering the sixth grade next year would have to be vaccinated against cervical cancer under legislation backed Tuesday by a bipartisan group of female lawmakers.
The first vaccine against cervical cancer will be available to girls as young as 9 later this month. Its manufacturer, Merck & Co. Inc., is already taking orders for Gardasil. The three-shot series costs $360.
The risk of divorce increases if one partner suffers from testicular or cervical cancer, but other types have no effect on whether a couple stays together, Norwegian researchers said on Thursday.
What is the impact of cervical cancer in your country? Do you want to know the burden of HPV infections on cervical cancer in your country? What are the statistics on the contributing factors for cervical cancer in your country? What kind of cervical screening practices exist in …
Kentucky researchers are looking to the tobacco plant to develop a low-cost vaccine against the virus that causes cervical cancer.
LONDON — A cheap method to detect cervical cancer using vinegar, cotton gauze and a bright light could save millions of women in the developing world, experts reported Friday.
It's not recommended for everyone—find out if it's right for you.
A Pap smear involves the sampling of cells from the cervix. This important screening test allows for the detection of early cervical cancer as well as other conditions.
Gardasil, the Merck drug aimed at preventing HPV (and, thus, cervical cancer) — which you'll remember was mandated as a required immunization for Texas girls by governor Rick Perry (and wisely overturned by the Texas legislature) — is looking not to be the safest of vaccines: …
Girls will be given jabs to protect them from cervical cancer at the age of 12 or 13 from next year, ministers announced today.
A centuries-old traditiona Chinese medicine used commonly as a diuretic and fever fighting drug has been newly discovered as being able to inhibit tumour growth in mice with cervical cancer.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - New Mexico is on the verge of becoming the latest state to require sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer, a spokesman for the governor said Monday.
4,000 American women died last year of cervical cancer. The American Cancer Society reckons 2,800 of them would not have died had they been innoculated with the HPV vaccine in adolescence. Coupled with routine Pap smears, the immunization might have saved all 4,000 of them.
I'll be honest here. The first time I was diagnosed with HPV was also the first time I was diagnosed with dysplasia--essentially pre-cancerous cells on my cervix. That was 14 years ago.
I guess it got a little hot..considering that $50,000 contribution: 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 new cervical cancer vaccine.
At least one politician in Texas isn't living in the nineteenth century.
That's why state-level debates over whether to make the vaccine mandatory for 11- and 12-year-old girls are so important.
Merck is vigorously lobbying state lawmakers to pass legislation to add its new vaccine against cervical cancer in the list of vaccinations that children are required to receive to be admitted into school, according to news reports.
"AUSTIN, Texas — Merck & Co. is helping bankroll efforts to pass state laws requiring girls as young as 11 or 12 to receive the drugmaker's new vaccine against the sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.
Australian Federal Government will provide about $342 million for a program that will offer Merck's human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil FREE to girls and women ages 12 to 26 to help prevent cervical cancer.
Visions of a virus spreading from child to child in a crowded elementary school classroom make it easy for state officials to require kids to be vaccinated against measles, polio or chicken pox. A mandatory vaccine against a cancer-causing sexually transmitted disease is proving …
In 2006, when the Federal Drug Administration approved the human papilloma virus vaccine, it was hailed as one of the top medical breakthroughs of the year.
Schoolgirls as young as 12 are to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease linked to cervical cancer, under controversial plans being drawn up by the Department of Health.
California lawmakers are considering whether to require young girls to be vaccinated against a virus spread almost exclusively through sex -- but which can be deadly.
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has welcomed a decision to put the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil on the national immunisation program, but says screening for older women must be stepped up.
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