Gardasil 9 is the HPV vaccine that prevents the most dangerous strains of the virus. Since HPV spreads through intimate ...

My medical degree and conversations with doctors helped me understand why it makes sense for adolescents to be vaccinated, ...

There is no cure for human papillomavirus, or HPV, a viral infection that affects nearly 80 percent of the population by the ...

The HPV vaccine, called Gardasil-9 — which has no live virus and is completely non-infectious — protects against the six types of HPV most likely to cause cancer, Eckert says. (These are strains 6, 11 ...

Increasing HPV vaccination rates could help decrease the number of cancer cases “attributable to HIV,” according to data from a study presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic ...

Unbeknownst to most people, cervical cancer, once a leading cause of death among women, is one of the only two preventable cancers thanks to the HPV vaccine. This life-saving vaccine protects against ...

Despite its cancer-preventing potential, uptake is “nowhere near the 90 per cent it should be” across Canada, says the chair of an HPV immunization task force.

Schools in the city are required to provide a parental consent form before getting their students vaccinated against human ...

Thailand provides free HPV vaccines for girls 11 to 20, in an ongoing initiative to reduce cervical cancer risk.

She never received the HPV vaccine, Gardasil-9, and believes if she had, she would have never developed this cancer. When the vaccine was released, Lenti was too old. In her early 30s, she asked ...

By Leslie Young, M.D., pediatrician, MemorialCare Medical Group – Lakewood Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a prevalent yet ...