By: Melody Brandon 05 November 2010 JOHANNESBURG (Xinhua) — A team of South African students from the University of The Witwatersrand (WITS) have used “biological Lego” to develop a tool that is hoped to detect cervical cancer. According to the South African department of Health, cancer of the cervix is the second most common […]
HPV Testing for Patients with Atypical Squamous Cells Identifies Those at High Risk for Cancer
By: Barbara Boughton 02 November 2010 (San Francisco, California) — A new study from an inner-city hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, of 348 patients with a diagnosis of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASC-US) confirms that high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) assay testing is essential for pinpointing patients with high-grade dysplasia who need follow-up treatment, according […]
Consumer-Engaged Prevention of Cervical Cancer
Instructions for cervical cancer prevention from one of the world’s foremost experts on cervical cancer pathology and the purported role human papillomavirus infections play in the development of the disease.
Gardasil linked to MS symptoms
Courier Mail
Australia
Sharon Labi
From: The Sunday Mail (Qld)
December 13, 2009
Doctors said the victims were either teenagers or women in their early 20s who may have been predisposed to MS or who had a prior history of symptoms.
St Vincent’s Hospital neurologist Dr Ian Sutton reported five cases in a journal article in January. Another five have since emerged.
The Age-Old Struggle against the Antivaccinationists
New England Journal of Medicine
Gregory A. Poland, M.D., and Robert M. Jacobson, M.D.
N Engl J Med 2011; 364:97-99
January 13, 2011
Since the introduction of the first vaccine, there has been opposition to vaccination. In the 19th century, despite clear evidence of benefit, routine inoculation with cowpox to protect people against smallpox was hindered by a burgeoning antivaccination movement. The result was ongoing smallpox outbreaks and needless deaths. In 1910, Sir William Osler publicly expressed his frustration with the irrationality of the antivaccinationists by offering to take 10 vaccinated and 10 unvaccinated people with him into the next severe smallpox epidemic, to care for the latter when they inevitably succumbed to the disease, and ultimately to arrange for the funerals of those among them who would die (see the Medical Notes section of the Dec. 22, 1910, issue of the Journal). A century later, smallpox has been eradicated through vaccination, but we are still contending with antivaccinationists.
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