By: David Derbyshire 22 November 2010 Toddlers are to be inoculated against six diseases at once in a bid to boost vaccination rates, the Government revealed yesterday.The chief medical officer has told GPs to give the vaccines – including the MMR jab – during a single surgery visit once a baby has passed his or […]
NHS screening change 'would cut smears
By: Michelle Roberts, Health Reporter, BBC News 09 November 2010 Women would need far fewer smears if the NHS switched to a new way of screening for cervical cancer, a Cancer Research UK scientist has said. Good uptake of the HPV vaccine that can prevent the cancer means we can now start to move away […]
NHS Grampian developing territorial HPV TV campaign
Posted in ‘The DRUM’ 21 October 2010 NHS Grampian is currently working with STV Creative on a TV campaign to highlight to recent female school leavers that they are still eligible to receive a vaccination against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV.) The campaign is one of several being created exclusively by regions of NHS Scotland […]
Cervarix License Extended
Posted in MIMS/UK 01 October 2010 The marketing authorisation for Cervarix has been updated to show that it offers broader protection against human papillomavirus (HPV) than first thought. Cervarix was originally indicated to protect against only the two HPV types it contains—16 and 18—which are collectively responsible for around 70 per cent of all cervical […]
Girls who leave school early risk missing out on vital cancer jab
By: Adam Morris, Health Reporter 2 October 2010 HUNDREDS of teenage girls in the Lothians who left school early are missing out on a potentially live-saving jab.While the uptake of the HPV vaccine – which guards against the main causes of cervical cancer – in schools is good, for those who have left at 16 […]
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