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...vaccine, Gardasil, is solely manufactured by Merck & Co., Inc.—a global research driven pharmaceutical company—as a preventative vaccine reccommended for women ages 9-26 who have not yet contracted HPV, a sexually transmitted disease that may lead to cervical cancer...
...vaccine, Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 has rightly decided to let people make their own health decisions. Fifty percent of sexually active adults are affected by HPV, making it the most common disease transmitted through sexual contact. In women, HPV can develop without warning into cervical cancer, a disease which claims nearly 4,000 American lives each year. The new vaccine is an invaluable resource for public health. Patrick has wisely allocated approximately $11 million in his state budget to making the vaccine available to all girls in the state between the ages of nine...
Tsai said the research marks a new field in the quest to provide better treatment for prostate cancer patients...
According to Tsai, ADT helps to lower the amount of male hormones in the body and should work to stunt the growth of prostate cancer. However, the treatment also has widely known health risks...
...1980s civil war. The elder D'Aubuisson, who died in 1992, was found by a U.N.-backed truth commission to have ordered the 1980 assassination of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero. His son and colleagues were murdered on the 15th anniversary of D'Aubuisson's death from throat cancer...