HPV is Fueling a Familiar Fight: Social Conservatives Oppose Science Advocates on Vaccine for Schoolgirls
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By Emily Ramshaw, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 18--AUSTIN -- Advocates of mandatory HPV vaccines for Texas schoolgirls rest their case on sound science -- medical evidence that a few shots could nearly eradicate the sexually transmitted disease and the cancer it can cause.
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A vaccine that could prevent young women  from developing most cases of cervical cancer could be on the  market within a few years.
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TRENTON, N.J. -- Pediatricians, gynecologists and even health insurers all call Gardasil, the first vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, a big medical advance.
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An experimental vaccine against one strain of the human papilloma virus blocked most infections by the virus and, more important, prevented development of a precursor
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A new vaccine being tested on Canadian women appears 100 per cent effective in protecting against multiple strains of the virus that causes cervical cancer, bringing the world a &quot;huge&quot; step closer to the first vaccine against cancer, researchers report.
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By Houston Chronicle  Feb. 8--There are a lot of valid questions percolating around Gov. Rick Perry's executive order that Texas school girls be vaccinated against cervical cancer -- unless their parents decline. All deserve answers.
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Concerns about promiscuity can misinform the debate about a new vaccine for the human papillomavirus.
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Tests on a new vaccine against human papillomavirus infection could prevent cervical cancer in women worldwide. Human papillomavirus, called HPV, is a common sexually-transmitted infection, and certain types of the virus cause cervical cancer in women.
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A NEW vaccine could drastically cut the number of women who suffer cervical cancer, researchers said today. Almost 250,000 women worldwide die each year from cervical cancer, which is linked to infection by HPV viruses.
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Schoolgirls in England will be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, ministers are set to announce.
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Washington - Years of clinical trials have yielded promising results for a vaccine that would protect women from a virus that causes cervical cancer, researchers said on Monday.
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By Janet Elliott, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 13--AUSTIN -- When Jacqueline Golson hears criticism that Texas is moving too fast to require that middle-school girls be vaccinated against cervical cancer, she recalls the surgeries and radiation that ravaged her body.
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NEW YORK  - Human papillomavirus (HPV)  infection, which is linked to an increased risk of developing  cervical cancer, is "extremely common" in sexually active  adolescent women in the US, a new study shows.
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By Brad Shannon, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Feb. 6--Gov. Chris Gregoire told the state's association of medical doctors Monday that she prefers a voluntary, state-paid program for vaccinating pre-teen girls against a sexually transmitted virus linked to cervical cancer.
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Texas lawmakers are fighting to block the governor's order requiring that sixth-grade girls be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, with the House giving key approval to a bill to make the shots strictly voluntary.
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All schoolgirls should be routinely vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, the Lancet says.
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The FDA has only approved the vaccine for girls women up to age 26. Now a medical debate is raging over whether older women should get it too