Friday, June 09, 2006

FDA Approves Cancer Vaccine

Gardasil, a vaccine against the virus that causes most cervical cancers, won FDA approval today.

The vaccine protects against infection from four strains of the human papilloma virus, or HPV. Two of these strains, HPV-16 and HPV-18, account for about 70% of cervical cancers.

Read more here...

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