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Merck, Glaxo reducen precio de vacuna contra cáncer cervical para paÃses pobres
ReutersLONDRES (Reuters) - Las farmacéuticas Merck y GlaxoSmithKline redujeron el precio de las vacunas contra el cáncer de cuello de útero en un acuerdo que les permitirá venderlas a los paÃses más pobres por menos de 5 dólares la dosis. El nuevo precio...Tags: GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Merck & Company Incorporated, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Merck, GSK cut price of cervical cancer shots for poor countries
Reuters* Shots will cost less than $5 per dose through GAVI deal * Human papillomavirus causes most cervical cancers * Disease kills 275,000 women a year worldwide * Vaccine group deal aims to protect 30 million girls By Kate Kelland LONDON, May 9 (Reuters)...Tags: GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Diseases and Illnesses, Disease Prevention, Vaccines, Preventative Medicine
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Science, sex and birth control
Democrats claim we have one party that upholds science and one that rejects it. When it comes to climate change, presidential polling, stem cells, evolution and other topics, we are told, Republicans have no use for actual experts. They'd rather listen to...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Acetaminophen (drug), Abortion, Barack Obama, Pharmaceuticals
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Many parents say no to HPV vaccine but vaccinations are up: study
Parents forgo vaccines for their teenage kids for a number of reasons, researchers said Monday in a paper reporting findings from the annual National Immunization Survey of Teens, which was published in the journal Pediatrics. That might mean that public...
Tags: Disease Prevention, Vaccines, Meningitis, Medical Specialization, Pharmaceuticals
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The cost of sexually transmitted disease
Doctors and patients alike are often uncomfortable talking about sexual health and sexually transmitted disease. But a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows that this squeamishness costs society millions of dollars spent trying to...Tags: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Disease Prevention, Vaccines, High Blood Pressure, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Fight tobacco marketing, boost vaccinations to curb cancer, says report
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - Fighting the tobacco industry's tactics in the world's poorest countries and ensuring the best vaccines get to those most in need are key to cutting the number of cancer deaths worldwide, according to a report by specialists in the...Tags: Health Organizations, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Tobacco Products, Colon Cancer, Disease Prevention
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Let’s Start 2013 by Preventing Cervical Cancer
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelJanuary is cervical cancer awareness month, and at Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando, we are ringing in the new year by talking prevention all month long. Cervical cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer in women. It’s also the most... -
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I'm writing in resonse to Kenneth VanAntwerp M.D. commentary on Oct. 31 about Gardasil. The Gardasil supposedly protects you from only four different strains of HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) when there are more than 100 different strains of HPV. Fifty-...Tags: Disease Prevention, Polio, Vaccines, Measles, Whooping Cough
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Susan Love, doctor/patient
And now, she is the patient. For decades, as a surgeon, researcher, professor and medical celebrity of sorts, Susan Love has led the charge against breast cancer and for women's health. She served on President Clinton's cancer advisory board. She set up a...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Chemotherapy, Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Women's Health
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January Is cervical health awareness month
Cervical cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths among women worldwide, yet it is almost always preventable with the Pap test. Cervical cancer grows slowly, as abnormal cells begin to change into a pre-cancerous state. For some women, pre-...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Disease Prevention, Medical Procedures and Tests, Preventative Medicine, Human papillomavirus
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Cancer death rates fall as HPV-associated cancers rise: U.S. report
This year’s Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, released online Monday, brought Americans good news and bad. Extending a trend since the early 1990s, authors reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that cancer...
Tags: Health Organizations, Disease Prevention, Vaccines, Medical Research, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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MedImmune creating drug pipeline for AstraZeneca
When Gail Folena-Wasserman joined Gaithersburg biotechnology startup MedImmune in 1991, she was its first employee in research and development, and dreamed of what the company might be "when it grew up."
Two decades later, the senior vice president for...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Economy, Business and Finance, Financial Markets, Asthma, Respiratory Disease
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