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LSPPPO|HEALTHCARE NEWS|October 11, 2012 Healthcare News A Weekly Compilation of Clinical Laboratory and Related Information from The Division of Laboratory Science and Standards October 11, 2012 News Highlights Instructions for Clinical Teams Regarding...

If you knew there was a vaccine that reduced your risk of getting cancer, would you ask your doctor for it? For most people, this decision is a no-brainer. Yet, in the United States, only one-third of teenage girls are fully vaccinated with immunizations...

The human papillomavirus vaccine is the only vaccine invented explicitly for the purpose of preventing cancer. Yet a decade after its approval, the vaccine continues to struggle from a PR problem, as shown in a study that finds just one in five parents...

CHICAGO (AP) — The first national estimate suggests that nearly half of U.S. men have genital infections caused by a sexually transmitted virus and that 1 in 4 has strains linked with several cancers. Most human papillomavirus infections cause no symptoms...

By Dr. Mercola Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines, marketed under the brand names Gardasil and Cervarix, are among the most controversial vaccinations offered in the U.S. — and the controversy, it appears, is only slated to get worse. Gardasil vaccine...