The WHO recommends that healthcare systems worldwide implement single-dose vaccine programs to help eliminate cervical cancer. On December 20, 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its recommendations for...
The 4-7 April convening of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) evaluated the evidence that has been emerging over past years that single-dose schedules provide comparable efficacy to the...
Researchers from New Zealand’s University of Otago have gained fresh insights into how one of the main viruses that cause cervical cancer evades its hosts’ immune systems. Their findings, which are published...
A vaccine introduced a decade ago to combat the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer has already reduced the virus’s prevalence in teenage girls by almost two-thirds, federal researchers said. Even for...
Changes to vaccination protocols against meningococcal serotype B (MenB) and human papillomavirus (HPV) are some of the most significant in the 2016 immunization schedule released recently by the Advisory Committee on...
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Division of Gynecologic Oncology director Warner Huh, M.D. says a new human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has the potential to reduce cervical cancer rates, while reducing the...
GPs in Australia are managing 61 per cent less cases of genital warts among young women since the introduction of the national human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program, a new study from the University of Sydney...
The Costa Rica Vaccine Trial for human papillomavirus (HPV) in young women has had a “modest” impact on gynecologic outcomes in the first few years of the program. Data shows that the impact of vaccination on rates of...
Rates of HPV strains related to genital warts and some cancers have decreased 56 percent among American teen girls since a vaccine was introduced in 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported...
Encouraging results have recently emerged regarding a new vaccine which suggests that with continued development the elimination of cervical cancer could be on the cards. The new vaccine targets the human papillomavirus...