Category Archives: Genital Warts (hpv)

Doctors: Get Checkups, Screenings

Among the most important initiatives that National Women’s Health Week, may 13 to 20, promotes for improving health and reducing the risk of certain diseases are getting regular check-ups and preventative screenings, including those for cervical cancer. While annual Pap smears for screening the latter are now no longer generally recommended, adult females should still have [...]

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Hologic Inc. Earnings Call Nuggets: HPV Product Line, HPV Market

On Monday, Hologic Inc (NASDAQ:HOLX) reported its second quarter earnings and discussed the following topics in its earnings conference call. Here’s what executives shared.HPV Product LineWilliam Quirk – Piper Jaffray & Company: First off, I guess question would you what you – I guess could you elaborate perhaps a little bit on HPV given obviously [...]

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HPV vaccination and women’s attitudes to cervical cancer screening and safe sexual behaviour « global vaccine ethics and policy

Vaccinesciencedirect.com/science/journal/0264410XVolume 30, Issue 21 pp. 3147-3248 (2 May 2012)Regular PapersDoes HPV vaccination affect women’s attitudes to cervical cancer screening and safe sexual behaviour?Original Research ArticlePages 3196-3201Tanya Mather, Kirsten McCaffery, Ilona JuraskovaAbstractThe Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has the potential to greatly reduce the incidence of cervical cancer by protecting against HPV infections responsible for 70% of [...]

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Actor Michael Douglas Partners With Oral Cancer Foundation For Early Detection PSA Campaign

LOS ANGELES, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –Two-time Oscar Winner and Cancer Survivor Encourages Regular Screenings as Counter to Rising Incidence Rates of Oral Cancer- Actor and producer Michael Douglas has donated his time to help create a television public service announcement (PSA) on behalf of the Oral Cancer Foundation (OCF), a non-profit organization [...]

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SC House OKs providing info to parents about HPV vaccines

A House panel has advanced a plan to encourage S.C. parents to get their middle school children vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus that causes cancer.Tuesday, the House’s full Medical, Military and Municipal Affairs Committee approved a bill requiring the state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control to provide educational brochures about the human papillomavirus, [...]

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