Testing menstrual blood for human papillomavirus (HPV) could be a "robust alternative or replacement" for current cervical cancer screening by a clinician, finds a study from China published by The ...

Say you lived in a country that has sky-high HPV vaccination coverage plus a uniform cervical cancer screening program. A new study suggests that, depending on when you got your shots, you might only ...

Shrimali is a third-year medical student at Tufts University School of Medicine. Recently, I walked into my doctor’s office and receive my first dose of the HPV vaccine at 24. I felt a bit ridiculous ...

This sexually transmitted infection is almost entirely preventable. Here's what experts say you really need to know to protect yourself. Colorized transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of human ...

Clinicians can now allow women to collect their own vaginal sample for cervical cancer screening in their office, according to an updated guideline published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A single HPV vaccination appears just as effective as two doses at preventing the viral infection that causes cervical cancer, researchers reported Wednesday. More states are ...

An experimental nasal vaccine could one day serve as a treatment for cervical cancer. In mice, the vaccine unleashed cancer-fighting immune cells in the cervix and ultimately shrank tumors, ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

Penile squamous cell carcinoma (PSCC) is a rare but aggressive malignancy that severely affects men’s health worldwide. Half of all PSCC cases are linked to human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, yet ...

This week, a report at IT Home described recent corporate initiatives in the fight to promote "positive energy" and suppress "malicious" negativity online. (As China Media Project explains, "’Positive ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Short-interval HPV retesting showed promise for identifying high-risk cervical neoplasia in HPV-positive patients. A positive repeat HPV test at 2 months had 82-88% sensitivity for high-grade cervical ...