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Poliomyelitis, a contagious viral disease that once crippled and killed thousands of children annually, has been eliminated in most of the Western world thanks to a vaccine invented by Jonas Salk in the 1950s, but it still survives in some of the world's poorest countries. India seemed to be...
The United States averages 9,710 new cases of cervical cancer and 3,700 deaths from cervical cancer each year. Worldwide there are 470,000 new cases and 233,000 people killed from the cancer per annum, making the disease the second most common cancer in women and increasing the...
The potential benefits to women’s health, including the tremendous numbers of potential lives saved, makes opposition to the vaccine all the more troubling. Certain conservative religious groups’ have attacked the ACIP’s recommendations not on the grounds that the vaccine is unsafeâ?...
The treatment, however, is a bit pricey. The vaccine consists of three separate shots administered over six months and costs about $360, a price that is a reach for many U.S. families and an impossibility for most in developing nations. While Merck, Gardasil’s manufacturer, has stated that...
Gardasil is not a panacea for preventing cervical cancer: It isn’t absolutely effective, and women should continue to undergo regular cervical cancer screening. But the health benefits of the vaccine are already promising. We commend both the FDA and UHS for making the vaccine more readily accessible...