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It's hard to ignore the letters H-P-V in a headline. Much has been written about HPV, or human papillomavirus, which infects some 20 million people in the U.S. and causes cervical cancer and genital warts. Even more has been written about the HPV vaccine, Gardasil, which was...
A new study in the Aug. 15 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association aims to clear up at least some of that uncertainty. Dr. Allan Hildesheim, an epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute, and his colleagues set out to determine whether Cervarix - a new HPV vaccine for...
"There was a lot of confusion in the clinical and lay communities around the use of the vaccine in individuals already infected," says Hildesheim. He says that he and his team are "trying to fill the void" left by publications that haven't addressed patients' questions about whether the vaccine...
While quarantine has improved, prevention has not. How did the cows catch the virus in the first place? A government investigation is focusing on two biological research labs at the Pirbright complex, 3 miles (4.8 km) from where this outbreak first appeared. The same strain of FMD found in Surrey...
Nonetheless, the British government yesterday ordered 300,000 doses of FMD vaccine from Merial in case of a wider outbreak, leading to calls in the national press for the private company to be stripped of profits form the sale should it be confirmed as the source of the infection. FMD...