Posts Tagged ‘ HPV ’

Genital warts vaccination to be offered to schoolgirls

November 24, 2011
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Genital warts vaccination to be offered to schoolgirls

Denis Campbell, health correspondent Gardasil, a vaccine which combats certain types of the human papillomavirus (HPV) responsible for cervical cancer and genital warts. Photograph: Voisin/Phanie/Rex Schoolgirls across the UK will be offered immunisation against genital warts, one of the most common sexually transmitted infections, in a move welcomed by doctors. It will expand the...

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Dr Dillner’s health dilemmas: should my daughter have the cervical cancer vaccine?

November 21, 2011
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Luisa Dillner The dilemma More than 2,800 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer in the UK each year. Nearly all (99%) of cervical cancer is caused by infection with human papillomavirus (HPV). If you could protect your daughter from getting it, why wouldn’t you? For the past two years all girls aged 12 to...

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