On June 8, 2006, the FDA licensed Gardasil, the first vaccine developed to prevent cervical cancer caused by certain kinds of human papillomavirus (HPV). Since then, more than 12 million doses of Gardasil vaccine have been distributed. However, CDC also received 7,802 reports on side effects of Gardasil.
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is [...]
Cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil is not as safe as we thought.
I woke up this morning to CNN American Morning and the breaking news that the Gardasil HPV vaccine has been implicated in deaths and various illnesses across the country.
According to the CDC, the vaccine has been the subject of almost 8,000 complaints, ranging from nausea [...]
The spokesperson of celebrity Big Brother star Jade Goody tells Reuters that Goody has been diagnosed with cervical cancer and according to AFP Goody quits India TV show after cervical cancer diagnosis.
AFP writes that “Goody apparently broke down in front of her fellow contestants on the show — the Indian version of “Celebrity Big Brother” [...]
The cost-effectiveness of vaccination in the United States against human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually-transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, will be optimized by achieving universal vaccine coverage in young adolescent girls, by targeting initial “catch-up” efforts to vaccinate women younger than 21 years of age, and by revising current screening policies, according to an analysis [...]
The programme to immunise girls against the Humanpapillomavirus (HPV) which can cause cervical cancer was officially launched today.
Starting this month, the vaccine which protects against the two strains of the virus that cause around 70% of cervical cancer cases will be routinely offered to girls aged 12-13 in schools across Northern Ireland.
Speaking at the launch [...]
For the second year, Toronto Public Health is offering the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, free of charge, to protect young women against cervical cancer. HPV is a common virus that can cause cancer of the cervix and genital warts.
The vaccine will be administered to Grade 8 girls at school-based vaccination clinics beginning September 17. Three [...]
QIAGEN’s careHPV test provides ’substantially more accurate’ front-line screening.
A new HPV test developed by QIAGEN specifically for use in regions of the world with scarce resources is “substantially” more accurate in identifying women with cervical disease than the current methods (Pap testing and visual inspection) in these countries. The first published study of patient outcomes [...]
A new HPV test showed to be accurate, fast and cheap and will be soon widely acceptable in rural areas. This will help women in developing countries to earlier diagnose viruses causing cervical cancer.
Cervical cancer is the number two cancer in women, with 500000 newly diagnosed cases and 300000 deaths each year. In most cases [...]
Some immigrant and women’s rights advocacy groups are raising concern about a new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services rule that adds the human papillomavirus vaccine to the list of required vaccinations for female immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship, the Dallas Morning News reports.
The rule — which took effect on July 1 — requires female immigrants [...]
One in four teenage girls has begun the process of vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) with the three-shot series of Gardasil, according to the 2007 National Immunization Survey-Teen. In March 2007 the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended that all girls age 11 or 12 be routinely vaccinated with three doses of quadrivalent HPV [...]