The FDA has approved the first at-home cervical cancer test kit, offering a new, accessible way to detect HPV, the primary ...

Dr. Linda Jando, BSc., MD, CCFP, Family Physician, discusses HPV and how it is contracted.

A comparative study of more than 600 people across 16 U.S. trial sites found the kit correctly detected HPV when pre-cancer — abnormal cells more likely to develop into cancer — was present 96 ...

About half of those with HPV are aged 15 to 24. Surveys suggest 3.7% of U.S. girls have sex by age 13, and 62.4% have had sex by the 12th grade. 3. Who should get the vaccine? Gardasil is approved ...

Cervical cancer remains a significant public health concern in the United States despite being one of the most preventable ...

Roche Diagnostics is looking to a new screening tool to help women learn in a more private way if they are at increased risk for cervical cancer—a self-collection test to identify HPV.

SEATTLE — Since its approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2006, the HPV vaccine has made considerable strides in preventing cervical and oropharyngeal, or throat cancers.

The reported noted that the decrease is alarming as HPV vaccination rates have remained “statistically unchanged” in recent years. In 2023, 61.4% of adolescents ages 13 to 17 were up-to-date ...

vaccine after a surgical treatment for low- and high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia resulted in a significant reduction in the proportion of women positive for HPV over the 15-month ...

HPV is a common group of viruses which can cause cancer and is estimated to infect 8 out of 10 people at some point in their lives, according to Public Health Wales (PHW). In schools across Wales ...

New Delhi: Indigenously developed (Human papillomavirus) HPV test kits for cervical cancer screening were launched here on Wednesday. The test kits have been developed under the Department of ...

MSD's Gardasil®9, a nine-valent HPV vaccine, is approved for use in males between 16 and 26 years old by China's National Medical Products Administration on Monday. [Photo provided to chinadaily ...