By: Hannah Hynes-Petty 28 October 2010 Ask and you shall receive. The Health Clinic received a shipment of the vaccine for Human Pappillomavirus (HPV) earlier this month after Gail Hacker, a doctor at the facility, enrolled in a program to receive the medicine. Shots of Gardasil cost $10 each and will require a series of […]
GlaxoSmithKline Drops the Price of Cervarix
Source: PharmaLive 25 October 2010 Today, GlaxoSmithKline Inc. (Canada), announced its plan to reduce the cost of CERVARIX™ by 30%. The cost reduction is in response to recent research that demonstrates the relatively high price of cervical cancer vaccines, coupled with a low understanding of their protective benefits topped the list of reasons why the […]
Paralegal Raises Public Awareness of Controversial Gardasil Vaccine
By: Lynne Devenny 17 October 2010 Pennsylvania paralegal Jodi Speakman was one of the featured guests on an October 14 online radio segment, “The HPV Vaccine – What Some Mothers Think You Should Know,” available at http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/74229. Speakman became active in raising awareness of adverse Gardasil reactions after her daughter Victoria began having debilitating seizures […]
HPV Screening Cuts Cervical Cancer Risk in HIV-Positive Women
Published in AIDSMEDS 13 October 2010 A simple DNA screening test for human papillomavirus (HPV) followed by treatment reduced the risk of developing precancerous lesions of the cervix by 80 percent in HIV-positive women over three years, according to a study published in the October 23 issue of AIDS. This method could dramatically expand early […]
HPV 'Epidemic' Behind Increases in Oral Cancer
By: Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today 13 October 2010 Rising rates of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma may stem from a new epidemic of sexually-transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV), according to a review. The incidence of oral cancer has been on the rise over recent decades in the U.S. and some northern European countries, noted […]
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