Topic: Gardasil
AP Features | 2010-02-17 17:26:36
<div><p>NEW VACCINE USES?: Merck &amp; Co. tested its Gardasil vaccine, which blocks strains of the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV), so it can seek approval to market the vaccine for two new uses, blocking cervical cancer in women over age 26 and preventing anal cancer in homosexual men.</p>< ...
AP Features | 2010-02-17 17:21:16
<div><p>The Gardasil vaccine appears to protect most young women from cervical cancer and homosexual men from anal cancer for at least a few years, according to new studies released Wednesday by its maker, Merck &amp; Co.</p><p>The vaccine is designed to block four of the most common ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-01-13 21:22:24
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merck &amp; Co on Wednesday said it had provided U.S. regulators with new information needed for approval to market its Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine to women between the ages of 27 to 45.</p><p>Gardasil, one of Merck's biggest products, was approved in ...
AP News | 2009-11-18 07:52:49
<div id="subtitle">'Golden era' could bring vaccines against AIDS, Alzheimer's and addictions within 5 years</div><div><p>Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it ...
