Archive for the ‘Cervical Cancer’ Category
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
The New York Times on Sunday examined the possibility of providing human papillomavirus vaccines to boys in an effort to reduce cervical cancer rates. According to the Times, Merck will submit data to FDA this year seeking approval for its HPV vaccine Gardasil to be administered to boys. Gardasil is ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
ATS Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATSI), manufacturer and marketer of state-of-the-art cardiac surgery products, announced initial clinical results of stand-alone ablation procedures and an overall expansion into the stand-alone market, using the ATS CryoMaze(TM) product line. This line of surgical products, indicated for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, is designed to ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
The question of whether it is appropriate to vaccinate older women against Human papillomavirus (HPV) is presented for debate in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia.
Dr Rachel Skinner - Senior Lecturer at the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia - and ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
HealthLinx Limited (ASX:HTX), has reached an agreement with The University of Liverpool (UK) to in-license additional patented biomarker technology and antibodies that has shown efficacy in detecting grade I & II ovarian cancer.
HealthLinx and The University of Liverpool (UK) have been jointly developing this technology over the past twelve months ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Iowa State University researchers have developed a technology that detects a single molecule of the virus associated with cervical cancer in women.
That's a significant improvement over the current test for the human papillomavirus, said Edward Yeung, an Iowa State Distinguished Professor and the Robert Allen Wright Chair in Chemistry who ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Women who have precancerous lesions removed from their cervix are at an increased risk of developing cervical or vaginal cancer during the 25 years after the procedure, according to a study published on Friday in BMJ, Reuters reports.
For the study, Bjorn Strander of Sahlgren's Academy at the University of Gothenburg ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Women who have had severe cell changes in the cervix and who have been operated on for them run twice the risk of developing cancer later in life, compared with other women. This is shown by research from the Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg Sweeden that is now being published in ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
The British government has announced that 12-13 year-old girls will be routinely vaccinated against HPV (human papillomavirus), as from September 2008. Health Secretary, Alan Johnson, during yesterday's announcement said this move signals the government's commitment to improve preventative measures.
According to official estimates, the whole program will cost approximately £100 ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Human papillomavirus tests are more accurate than Pap tests in the detection of cervical cancer and precancerous changes in the cervix, according to two studies published on Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Wall Street Journal reports (Tomsho, Wall Street Journal, 10/18).
For one of the studies, Canadian ...
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