News tagged with 'Human Papillomavirus'

Head and neck cancer patients who test positive for the human papillomavirus (HPV) have a better survival rate than patients that don’t have the virus, according to new research published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.

A study in the British medical journal, The Lancet, finds the Gardasil rival drug for human papillomavirus, Cervarix is effective against five viruses, two most common virus types that cause HPV or human papillomavirus as well as three of the next most common cervical cancer causers. The study was funded by the vaccine maker, GlaxoSmithKline. 

Circumcision reduced cases of herpes and human papillomavirus in Ugandan men, say researchers from Johns Hopkins. Circumcision is already known to reduce HIV infections. Researchers are calling for higher circumcision rates. 

16-year-old Ashley Ryburn received one Gardasil vaccine along with a meningitis shot. Then she received another Gardasil shot, her second in the three-series vaccines.  She is now disabled, in pain, faints, has numb legs, not at all the athlete she used to be. 

The Gardasil vaccine, intended to prevent cervical cancer in girls and women shows strong signs of preventing genital warts in men, according to a new study funded by Merck, who manufactures Gardasil.

The debate about whether or not to require government mandates for immunizing girls with Gardasil, against human papillomavirus (HPV) is again the center of debate as three scholars argue that local and state government should not require cervical cancer vaccinations for constitutional and public health reasons.

Twenty-five thousand cases of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cancers occurred in 38 states and the District of Columbia annually during 1998-2003, according to studies conducted by CDC.

The CDC and FDA are both promoting the use of Gardasil in an unprecedented way.  Reporting on the two-year post-approval monitoring the the drug, the CDC says its safe and the 20 plus deaths are not related to the vaccine.

A new study suggests that while men are at high risk of contracting human papillomavirus (HPV), most infections last a year or less, about the same amount of time the disease persists in women.

Gardasil protects against four types of human papillomavirus and so far, one quarter of teenage girls ages 13 to 17 have received the vaccination.   That despite the adverse reports that have been reported to the FDA including 18 deaths associated with its use.

A new, inexpensive test has been developed to detect cervical cancers. It will be used within a few month in rural areas where clinics and skilled health care workers are scarce and could save thousands of lives among women in developing countries, where presently only 5 percent of women are screened.

It’s an important question and one many parents are asking --just who should be teaching our teenage girls about sexually transmitted infections following the release of a CDC survey that shows more than three million teenage girls have a sexually transmitted disease.