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...effective vaccine. "I'll always regret calling these 'edible vaccines,'" he says, "because that's just the image it conjures up." Arntzen hopes to test his tomato juice on animals within the year, with human trials to follow. He's also thinking about vaccines for cholera, hepatitis, human papilloma virus and measles. And he's not alone: some four dozen labs around the world are working on their own versions of what Arntzen would prefer to call "plant-derived" vaccines, based on tomatoes, bananas and potatoes. Within a few years, some of the planet's most pernicious killers could...
...things: get a follow-up Pap in six months or undergo an expensive procedure called a colposcopy, in which the cervix is closely examined and usually biopsied. Now researchers report on a third alternative. In a major study, they found that testing for the human papilloma virus in women with equivocal Paps quickly and accurately identifies which women are most likely to have precancerous or cancerous lesions upon biopsy, sparing half of them the need to undergo...
TRANSMISSION TROUBLE The sexually transmitted infection called chlamydia has been linked to infertility. Now Finnish scientists say it may also increase a woman's risk of cervical cancer. What's more, chlamydia may make women more vulnerable to the human papilloma virus, the other STD linked to cervical cancer. Chlamydia is easily treated with antibiotics. If you suspect you have it, get to your doctor...
...aren't going away. Some 65 million Americans are currently infected with one or more STDs, and 15 million new infections occur each year. Most disturbing, after two decades of decline, gonorrhea incidence is up 9% since 1997. Meanwhile, 18% of women and 8% of men carry the human papilloma virus that causes half of all cervical-cancer cases. All the more reason to use a condom.--By Janice M. Horowitz...
...several studies conducted with college women, nearly half tested positive for HPV. It is estimated that 10 million American women have active viral infections and perhaps 10 percent of them have diseased tissue as a result. Papilloma is associated with 95 percent of cervical cancer cases...