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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study shows heart attacks and strokes are more common in women infected with human papillomavirus, or HPV.The research only included a small number of women with heart disease, and it doesn't prove that the sexually ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. vaccine advisers on Tuesday voted to recommend that boys should be routinely vaccinated with Merck & Co's Gardasil vaccine to protect them from human papillomavirus or HPV infections, which cause genital warts and oral, penile and anal cancers ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More U.S. teens are getting recommended vaccines against certain cancers, meningitis and infectious diseases, government researchers reported on Thursday.More than 40 percent of girls have received at least one dose of the new vaccine that protects against a virus ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The number of head and neck cancers linked to a virus spread by oral sex is rising rapidly and suggests boys as well as girls should be offered protection through vaccination, doctors said Friday.Despite an overall slight decline in ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merck & Co on Wednesday said it had provided U.S. regulators with new information needed for approval to market its Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine to women between the ages of 27 to 45.Gardasil, one of Merck's biggest products, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. advisory panel has recommended the use of GlaxoSmithKline PLC's Cervarix vaccine to prevent cervical cancer in girls and young women, the company said on Wednesday.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Merck & Co won U.S. approval to sell its cervical cancer vaccine for prevention of genital warts in boys and young men, the company said on Friday.The Food and Drug Administration approved the Gardasil vaccine for males ages ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Vaccinating boys against the virus that causes cervical cancer and genital warts does not appear to be cost-effective, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.Assuming all girls get the shot, adding boys to a national vaccination program may not be worth ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A teenage British girl died after receiving a cervical cancer vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline, but a link between the death and the drug has not yet been established, health officials said on Monday.The 14-year-old fell ill after she was ...
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - Merck & Co's cervical cancer vaccine is safe and effective for preventing genital warts in males ages 9 to 26, a U.S. advisory panel said on Wednesday.The Gardasil vaccine has already been approved for girls and young women ...
