News tagged with human papillomavirus infection
Study compares effectiveness of 2 vs. 3 doses of HPV vaccine for girls and young women
With the number of doses and cost of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines a barrier to global implementation, researchers have found that girls who received two doses of HPV vaccine had immune responses to HPV-16 and HPV-18 ...
Cancer
Apr 30, 2013 |
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Teens, young adults bear disproportionate share of STDs
In the heat of the moment, it's a good bet sexually transmitted infections are the last thing on a teen's or young adult's mind. Thus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, young people ages ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 28, 2013 |
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HPV vaccination to provide even more protection in future against infections
At present over one hundred strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) are known, fourteen of which can trigger cancer. The HPV vaccinations currently in use provide protection from 70 percent of these cancers. ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Apr 17, 2013 |
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Circumcision alters penis microbiome, could explain HIV protection
Circumcision drastically alters the microbiome of the penis, changes that could explain why circumcision offers protection against HIV and other viral infections. In a study to be published on April 16 in mBio, the online ...
HIV & AIDS
Apr 16, 2013 |
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Too few adults get recommended vaccines, CDC says
(HealthDay)—Vaccines aren't just for kids, and most American adults aren't getting their recommended vaccinations, federal health officials said Tuesday.
Health
Jan 30, 2013 |
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Three questions about HPV vaccination
In 2009, more than 30,000 people in the U.S. learned they had cancer linked to the human papillomavirus, or HPV. This virus is best known for causing cervical cancer, but it's also the culprit behind many ...
Cancer
Jan 21, 2013 |
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HPV in older women may be due to reactivation of virus, not new infection
A new study suggests that human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in women at or after menopause may represent an infection acquired years ago, and that HPV infections may exist below limits of detection after one to two years, ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 13, 2012 |
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Human papillomavirus types do not replace others after large-scale vaccination
Vaccines against human papillomavirus (HPV) are now recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for both teenage boys and girls. The vaccine protects against the two most common types of the virus that cause ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 24, 2012 |
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New proteins inhibit HIV infection in cell cultures
(Medical Xpress) -- Yale Cancer Center scientists have developed a new class of proteins that inhibit HIV infection in cell cultures and may open the way to new strategies for treating and preventing infection ...
Medical research
Jul 24, 2012 |
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Researchers develop secure protocol for linking data registries for HPV surveillance
Monitoring the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine in Canada requires that data from multiple registries and other data sources be combined. Linking registries can be problematic, however, since they are often managed by unrelated ...
Medical research
Jul 10, 2012 |
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HPV vaccine reduces infection, even in unvaccinated
The HPV vaccine not only has resulted in a decrease in human papillomavirus infection in immunized teens but also in teens who were not immunized.
Pediatrics
Jul 09, 2012 |
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Sun exposure and cutaneous HPV infection found synergistic in skin cancers
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at the University of South Florida and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg have found that having antibodies for cutaneous types of human papillomavirus (HPV), ...
Cancer
Jun 25, 2012 |
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Researchers develop and test new anti-cancer vaccine
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed and tested in mice a synthetic vaccine and found it effective in killing human papillomavirus-derived cancer, a virus linked to cervical cancers among others. The research ...
Cancer
Jun 08, 2012 |
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Blacks have trouble clearing cervical cancer virus
Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the virus that causes the disease.
Cancer
Apr 01, 2012 |
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HPV vaccination reduces the risk of infection even after a previous case of the disease
The vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) reduces the risk of a renewed HPV-associated illness in patients who have already had diseases as a consequence of an HPV infection. That is the result of ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Mar 28, 2012 |
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