Gardasil is a vaccine, licensed for use in June 2006, by the FDA. It targets four strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) -- HPV-6, 11, 16, and 18. HPV-16 and HPV-18 account for about 70% of all ...

What the company hasn’t mentioned as a problem that could unseat Gardasil altogether: local competition. Chinese firms sell HPV shots that cost about 300 yuan ($41), one-tenth the price of Gardasil.

MSD has opened the doors of a $1 billion manufacturing facility at its site in Durham, North Carolina, that will be used to produce the bulk drug substance for its HPV vaccine Gardasil.

"There was no argument, no trying to persuade me, no 'Here's a pamphlet about Gardasil,' nothing," Darrow says. Several pediatricians interviewed by CNN said they don't push the HPV vaccine if ...

A vaccine that’s widely known to help protect women from cervical cancer can also offer significant health benefits for men, new research shows. Human papillomavirus vaccination is linked with ...

In the ESCUDDO trial, which involved more than 20,000 girls ages 12 to 16, one dose of both the bivalent Cervarix and 9-valent Gardasil 9 HPV vaccines provided similar protection to two doses ...

To understand both the kernel of truth and the misleading wrapper, and to know how Citizen Kennedy distorted the truth, we must first grasp the devastating disease Gardasil helps prevent: cervical ...

This week, an Irish mother and daughter went to court to try to halt the Gardasil HPV vaccine's continued availability in Ireland, where it has been offered to young women and girls for the last ...

In its rush to market its human papillomavirus vaccine, Merck forgot to make a strong and compelling case for compulsory immunization. Merck's human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil should ...

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.

A steep fall in demand from China drove a 41% decline in MSD Q1 2025 sales of its human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines Gardasil and Gardasil 9, marking a continued setback for the company’s ...