Archive for the ‘Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine’ Category
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Some of the CDC officials who supported a recommendation for young women in the U.S. to receive the human papillomavirus vaccine said they did not intend for it to lead to an immigration policy requiring young immigrant women to receive the vaccine, the Wall Street Journal reports (Jordan, Wall Street Journal, 10/1).
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
The launch of the Women Against Cervical Cancer (WACC) Network, a new international network of voluntary organisations, institutions, NGOs and individuals committed to the fight against cervical cancer.
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
CDC officials said they were unaware that the agency's recommendation for young women to receive Merck's human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil would lead to an immigration policy requiring immigrant women ages 11 to 26 to receive the vaccine, and an unnamed government official said the requirement might be reviewed, the Wall Street Journal reports (Jordan, Wall Street Journal, 10/1).
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Some immigration and women's rights advocacy groups are claiming that a new requirement for female immigrants to receive the human papillomavirus vaccine is discriminatory, the Dallas Morning News reports. The requirement, which applies to female immigrants ages 11 to 26 seeking permanent residence, went into effect on July 1.
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
An independent health researcher is calling on the government for more research into the possible side-effects of the cervical cancer vaccine that is currently being given to teenage girls throughout the country.
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
The risks and benefits of different cervical cancer prevention approaches may aid women to work with their physicians to implement the appropriate screening strategies, as analyzed by a model, reported in an article released on September 22, 2008 in Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Women in the United States have a 0.
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Some immigrant and women's rights advocacy groups are raising concern about a new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services rule that adds the human papillomavirus vaccine to the list of required vaccinations for female immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship, the Dallas Morning News reports. The rule -- which took effect on July 1 -- requires female immigrants ages 11 to 26 seeking U.S.
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Cervical and lung cancer are more common in poor people while rates of breast cancer and melanoma are higher in the wealthy. A detailed analysis of the incidence of these four different kinds of cancer, carried out on more than 300,000 English cancer patients and published in the open access journal BMC Cancer, describes the effects of socioeconomic group, region and age.
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
The two HPV vaccines currently licensed for use in the UK were jointly awarded the coveted Prix Galien Medal for Innovation at a ceremony held on Wednesday evening in the Palace of Westminster, House of Commons.
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Guided Therapeutics, Inc. (GT) (Pink Sheets: GTHP) today announced completion of its U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pivotal clinical trial for its LightTouch TM non-invasive cervical cancer detection device.
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