Guidelines: Do medical tests later, less often

2010-03-12T02:45:19Z

<div id="subtitle">Are some medical tests overused? Some guidelines are scaling back on frequency, timing</div><div><p>Recent reports and guideline changes suggest some medical tests should be delayed, avoided, or done less often:</p><p>_ MAMMOGRAM: Most women don't need a mammogram in their 40s and they should get one every two years starting at 50, according to 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 strains of the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus, or HPV. Two of those HPV strains cause the m...

Simple test could cut cancer deaths in poor nations

2010-02-22T20:09:44Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - A simple "see and treat" approach using a test costing $2 could help doctors prevent 100,000 cervical cancer deaths a year in women in poorer countries, British scientists said on Friday.</p><p>Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women in developing nations where the main barriers to tackling the disease are poor health servic...

Poor being turned away from free cancer screenings

2010-02-23T17:00:31Z

<div id="subtitle">Poor turned away from some free cancer screening centers as economy forces comebacks</div><div><p>As the economy falters and more people go without health insurance, low-income women in at least 20 states are being turned away or put on long waiting lists for free cancer screenings, according to the American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Networ...

Enzo signs marketing deal for cervical cancer test

2010-02-23T17:56:08Z

<div id="subtitle">Enzo Biochem signs marketing deal for Ikonisys' molecular cervical cancer test</div><div><p>Enzo Biochem Inc. said Thursday it signed a marketing deal covering New York and New Jersey with Ikonisys Inc.

HEALTH CARE WOMEN

2009-11-21T07:15:55Z

Graphic shows percentage of women 40 years and older having a mammogram by race and cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates per 100,000 population

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Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps

2010-02-24T02:42:34Z

<div id="subtitle">Guidelines say less frequent Paps OK to detect cervical cancer - every 2 years for under-30</div><div><p>First mammograms. Now — in an apparent coincidence — Pap smears.</p><p>New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most wome...

US backs new start date for cervical cancer tests

2010-02-24T02:47:02Z

<div><p>Women should not get their first cervical cancer screening before age 21, the leading US group of women's health care professionals said Friday, also recommending less frequent subsequent tests.</p><p>Pushing back the age of the first screening would help avoid giving teen girls unnecessary treatment, which can have "economic, emotional and future childbearing implications," according to the guidelines issued by the US health group has said women should wait longer to get their first cervical cancer test.</p><p>The New York Times reported Friday that the US health group has said women should wait longer to get their first cervical cancer test.</p><p>The New York Times reported Friday that the CHICAGO (Reuters) - Women in the United States should start cervical cancer screening at age 21 and most do not need an annual Pap smear, according to new guidelines issued on Friday that aim to reduce the risk of unnecessary treatment.</p><p>The guidelines from the...

U.S. OKs Glaxo's cervical cancer shot

2010-02-24T18:07:58Z

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc won U.S. approval on Friday to sell a cervical cancer vaccine for girls and young women, while a rival Merck &amp; Co shot was cleared for preventing genital warts in males.</p><p>Glaxo said the...

U.S. OKs Merck shot to prevent male genital warts

2010-02-24T18:01:55Z

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Merck &amp; Co won U.S. approval to sell its cervical cancer vaccine for prevention of genital warts in boys and young men, the company said on Friday.</p><p>The Glaxo's long-delayed vaccine Cervarix, creating new competition for Merck</div><div><p>GlaxoSmithKline said Friday U.S. regulators approved its vaccine Cervarix to prevent the leading cause of cervical cancer in women, following a two-yea...

FDA approves Merck's Gardasil for boys

2010-02-24T18:04:14Z

<div id="subtitle">FDA approves Merck's cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to prevent genital warts in boys</div><div><p>Drugmaker Merck said Friday that U.S. regulators cleared its vaccine Gardasil to prevent genital warts in boys, a new use for a product already appro...

US regulators approve GSK cancer vaccine: company

2010-02-24T18:05:14Z

<div><p>A cervical cancer vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline has been authorised for sale in the United States, the British drug giant announced Friday.</p><p>The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of Cervarix at her school in Coventry, as part of a nationwide innoculation programme.</...

Cancer jab 'unlikely' to have killed teenage girl

2010-02-25T00:45:34Z

<div><p>The teenage girl who died shortly after being vaccinated against cervical cancer had a "serious underlying medical condition" and the vaccination was "most unlikely" to have caused her death, the NHS has said.</p><p>Natalie Morton, 14, died on Monday shortly after being injected with the Cervarix vaccine at the Blue Coat CofE school in Coventry.</p><p>The va...

British girl dies after cervical cancer vaccine jab

2010-02-25T00:54:23Z

<div><p>British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline said Tuesday it was working with health authorities here investigating the death of a schoolgirl following a cervical cancer vaccination.</p><p>The 14-year-old died on Monday when the Cervarix vaccine was administered at her school in Cove...

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