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...dangerous triglyceride fats in the blood. ?CERVICAL CANCER Cancer is always tricky to treat, but if the malignancy is caused by a virus, then the disease becomes a little more manageable, thanks to vaccine technology. Both Merck and GlaxoSmithKline have created cervical-cancer vaccines, but Merck's Gardasil was first to the FDA, which is expected to make its decision by June...
...Gardasil protects against four types of human papillomavirus, which account for the vast majority of the 500,000 cervical-cancer cases and the 32 million new cases of genital warts around the world each year. Last fall Merck released encouraging results from its clinical trial in which 755 healthy sexually active women were injected with the protective shots three times over six months and none developed precancerous growths in the cervix after four years...
...VACCINES If all goes well, the FDA could approve the first vaccine for cervical cancer by 2006. A large-scale study presented at a meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in October found that Merck's experimental vaccine Gardasil was 100% effective against two strains of human papillomavirus that cause 70% of all cervical cancers. Another experimental Merck vaccine was tested this year for protection against shingles, the painful blistering disorder caused by the chicken-pox virus. In a trial of more than 38,500 adults 60 and older, the vaccine cut the risk of shingles by more...
...HORIZON: THE FIRST CANCER VACCINE A large-scale trial found Merck's experimental vaccine Gardasil 100% effective against two strains of human papillomavirus thought to cause 70% of all cervical cancers. If FDA approved, it may arrive...