Items Tagged ‘cervical cancer’
March 18, 2013
Cervical Cancer Vaccines Spurned by 44% of U.S. Parents
Researchers analyzed data from a national survey from 2008 to 2010 on immunizations for teenagers…“That’s the opposite direction that rate should be going,” Robert Jacobson, a pediatrician at the Mayo Clinic Children’s Center in Rochester, Minnesota, and a senior researcher of the paper, said in a statement. “HPV causes essentially 100 percent of cervical cancer and 50 […]
Tags: Bloomberg, cervical cancer, Dr. Robert Jacobson, HPV, immunization, Mayo Clinic Children's Center, vaccine
January 31, 2012
Oral HPV rates higher in men than women: What is HPV?
HPV infects the mouths of an estimated 7% of men and women from the ages of 14 to 69 in the U.S. — and men have it at higher rates than women, according to a study out last week in the Journal of the American Medical Assn…According to the Mayo Clinic, the body often can […]
Tags: cervical cancer, HPV, Journal of the American Medical Association, warts