Science News Human papillomavirus lingers for months in men, study shows By Nathan Seppa Web edition : Monday, February 28th, 2011 The virus notorious for causing cervical cancer in women also turns up frequently in men and can hang on unnoticed for months or even years, researchers report online March 1 in Lancet. The study […]
One-in-four girls ignoring cervical cancer vaccine
Herald Sun Marianne Betts March 01, 2011 6:00AM A QUARTER of young girls are forsaking a life-saving cervical cancer vaccine because of ignorance. Two studies suggested an alarming lack of knowledge was to blame for many girls aged 12-13 not taking up the vaccine, Cancer Council spokeswoman Kate Broun said. The Gardasil jab, which protects […]
Call for jabs to protect against STI
Your Canterbury
February 27, 2011
Sexual health doctors have urged the Government to vaccinate against genital warts as part of the school-based jabs programme.
Cases of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) have soared, with an increase of 33 per cent across the South East since 2000.
More than 400 new cases per 100,000 of the population were diagnosed in Kent in 2009.
Medway had the highest rate of the infection at 167 in 2009. Recent figures from Medway’s GUM (genitor-urinary medicine) clinic show cases of genital warts rose 36 per cent from 302 to 412 between 2004 and 2010.
Roche severs deal with Transgene for HPV vaccine
Online Pharma Times World News | February 23, 2011 Selina McKee Shares in French drugmaker Transgene took a small knock yesterday in Europe after Swiss drug giant Roche cut its ties with the firm’s vaccine for HPV-caused diseases. Roche terminated its 2007 agreement with Transgene under which it held exclusive global development and commercialisation rights […]
To Justice Sotomayor, Proof That Vaccines Cause Autism Is Just One Lawsuit Away
Bnet
Jim Edwards, February 22, 2011
The Supreme Court’s ruling in the Wyeth vaccine case was a topsy-turvy affair, with arch conservative Justice Antonin Scalia writing a ruling favoring Big Gummint and proto-liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor authoring a scaremongering dissent that suggests vaccines might cause autism and that activist parents may “ultimately be able to prove such a link.”
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