]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/cervical-cancer Blog Articles Tagged with 'cervical-cancer' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/lancet-blog/923757?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer The following will appear in the Nov 22 issue of The Lancet:Clinical guidelines The American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association have released the first guidelines for the treatment of adults with congenital heart disease. These guid... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/lancet-blog/923757?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:48:15 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/straight-from-the-doc/923253?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer The popular HPV vaccine Gardasil by Merck may not only help the female population but the male population as well. Such is the latest development on Gardasil:Gardasil, a vaccine against four strains of human papillomavirus (HPV), may help prevent gen... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/straight-from-the-doc/923253?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:31:17 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/923146?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Merck is moving ahead with plans to extend the use of its controversial Gardasil vaccine to boys and young men.Associated PressGirls may not be the only ones getting Gardasil injections for long.Scientists are reporting at a scientific meeting in Nic... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/923146?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:45:05 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/922927?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer More academics are joining arguments against government mandates for immunizing girls with Merck s Gardasil vaccine against cervical cancer. In the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, three scholars argue that state and local governments shouldn t... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/922927?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:43:13 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cancer-commentary/922855?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Am I one of the few who reads a headline like this and thinks, wait a minute. Did I really read that? Yes - unfortunately, I did.Gardasil, a vaccine that protects against certain types of HPV infection, is a recommended vaccine in the US for girls ag... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cancer-commentary/922855?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:00:28 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cancer-commentary/922541?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Than anti-PHV vaccine that is being promoted heavily for teen girls should be given to boys too, say many people.HPV, or human papilloma virus, is responsible for genital warts. Although there are many types of HPV, two are responsible for 70% of cas... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cancer-commentary/922541?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:10:47 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cancer-commentary/922387?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Please take our Gardasil pollThe controversial Gardasil vaccine, to prevent transmission of four types of human papillomavirus (HPV), two of which cause cervical cancer, has been given a prestigious pharmaceutical award, considered the Nobel prize of... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cancer-commentary/922387?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:20:35 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cancer-commentary/921998?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Have you ever heard that saying that polite people never discuss religion or politics at a dinner party? I think we need to add Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, to that list.Some people are so strongly for the vaccine for girls as young as 9 years old, whi... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cancer-commentary/921998?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:46:51 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cancer-commentary/921967?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Ok, we know that most women don t enjoy going to the doctor for a pelvic, or internal, exam. It s not a glamorous position to be in, but - that Pap smear that you should get while you have your annual exam could save your life. A 15-minute doctor... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cancer-commentary/921967?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:01:32 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cancer-commentary/921888?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Early detection is the hallmark of increased survival of cancer, but the trick is to find how we can detect cancers in the early stages. Cervical cancer is one that can be caught quite early if women go for their regular Pap tests, which is designed ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cancer-commentary/921888?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:38:56 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/921839?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Gary Schwitzer writes a nice piece on the hype surrounding cancer screening tests. Evidence-based guidelines from the USPSTF are often ignored by mainstream media, who write pieces glamorizing the latest, largely unproven, cancer screening modalitie... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/921839?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:00:01 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/920836?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer The feds gave Merck s Gardasil a clean bill of health yesterday, after reviewing data from some 375,000 women and girls who received the vaccine, which protects against several strains of the virus that causes cervical cancer.The agency has receive... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/920836?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:44:07 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/919755?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Ikonisys out of New Haven, Connecticut is a company making great strides in the digital pathology business. The company's main product is Ikoniscope Digital Microscope, a fully automated slide handling, complete slide scanning and real-time image ca... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/919755?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:21:53 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/919438?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer It was only in March of last year that a national experts committee recommended that teenage girls get vaccinated with Merck s Gardasil, which protects against some of the HPV viruses that cause cervical cancer. By the last few months of last ye... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/919438?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:43:45 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/918991?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer It s already been done with cervical cancer, so why not develop a vaccine for breast cancer? That s the challenge that Professor Valerie Beral of Oxford University asks the scientific community. The lead scientist in the Million Women s Study ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/918991?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:42:26 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/918927?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Luc Montagnier (left) and Robert Gallo. (AP Photo)Half of this year s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Fran oise Barr -Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, two French researchers who discovered HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The other half... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/918927?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:41:55 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/918902?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Dr. Harald zur Hausen of Germany for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer, and to Drs. Fran oise Barr -Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier of France for the... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/918902?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:21:52 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-health-with-drgabe/918220?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer More than 85 percent of the known causes of cancers are environmental, not genetic. Normal cells undergo apoptosis, a process in which each cell lives only so long and then dies. Cancer means that the DNA in cells cannot do its usual job of telling a... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-health-with-drgabe/918220?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:01:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/that-health-rules/918082?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer We all know that disease affecting an elderly can differ from the young. A new study highlights the impact of one socioeconomic status and the risk of common ailments that we dread of having: CANCER.Here s an interesting study opublished recently... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/that-health-rules/918082?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:35:48 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/straight-from-the-doc/916513?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer 5255912Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 5255912The US FDA has recently approved additional uses for Merck's controversial HPV vaccine Gardasil: prevention of vaginal and vulvar cancer caused by Human Papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 in girls... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/straight-from-the-doc/916513?rsstype=tag&tag=cervical-cancer Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:44:43 -0400