When we talk about advancements in the field of women’s health and then look at the speculum – a device that hasn’t had an ...

Reduce your other risk factors. Tobacco and alcohol use are some of the strongest lifestyle risk factors for head and neck cancer. In a recent study, tobacco use increased the risk of developing ...

Pap smears are especially traumatic when providers fail to respond compassionately to patients’ pain. Bonnie Gross, who has ...

The rise of patients collecting their own samples for diagnostic tests seems poised to change how we approach health care in ...

HPV causes about 70% of oropharyngeal cancers ... it could drastically change how we treat patients; for example, being able to use less treatment leading to fewer side effects," said Faden.

For example, you can get a wart inside your anus even if you haven’t had anal sex. A: It’s not a medical emergency. But the HPV warts that are really hard to treat have been there for ...

through bathing or diaper changes for example," Trottier explained. Nonetheless, all the newborns in the cohort who contracted HPV had eliminated the virus by the age of two. "This data is very ...

HPV causes cancer in parts of the body that come ... The virus is not thought to travel to distant organs and cause lung or liver cancer, for example. “We usually don’t think of human ...

"With this building of the evidence, we and others launched multiple randomized trials to formally evaluate single-dose HPV vaccination," Kreimer said. For example, the KEN SHE randomized trial ...

Studies across the world have affirmed that HPV vaccination does prevent cancer. In one stunning recent example, Scotland said in 2024 that, of girls in the country who were born between 1988-1996 ...

HPV is mostly transmitted sexually but can also be transmitted by fomites, which, when, for example, an infected individual uses a washcloth in their private area, can be passed to another ...