In the first government-backed survey conducted since Gardasil, the vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV), made its market debut in 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says about 25% of all American girls between the ages of…

Jenny was a healthy, happy 13-year-old from Northern California until about 15 months ago when signs of muscle deterioration began appearing.  At that time, she’d also completed the third and final dose of Gardasil, the vaccine given to guard against…

The pharmaceutical company, Merck & Co. Inc., won approval in 2006 from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market Gardasil, the first vaccine ever approved for the prevention of infection from human papillomavirus (HPV), which often causes cervical…

Merck & Co., Inc., has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted and designated as priority a review of GARDASIL, a vaccine against types 6, 11, 16, and 18 of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is…

Patient demographics has led researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center to identify two types of cancer associated with the head and neck and the types of people more likely to get one form of the cancer or the…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just issued the alarming findings of its first ever survey of teen health which included sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). In the study, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 838 randomly…

A new study shows that the HPV vaccine, GARDASIL, reduced abnormal Pap test results by 43 percent compared to women not given the vaccine. GARDASIL is FDA approved against the human papilloma virus (HPV) strains (6, 11, 16, 18) believed…

According to new research, Human Papillomavirus (HPV) may be responsible for the development of oral cancer in men to a greater extent than previously thought. Statistics show that in the past four decades, incidence of oral cancer caused by HPV…

MedHeadlines - Two young women have died shortly after receiving Gardasil, a vaccine against human papillomavirus - one of the main causes of cervical cancer. The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has reported that the two deaths occurred in Austria and…