According to researchers from the American Cancer Society, there’s been an increase in the number of women under the age of 26 who have been diagnosed with early-stage cervical cancer, most likely the effect of Obamacare.
Like the cast of Orange Is the New Black before them, half of British young ladies have no idea how their vaginas work. Someone should call Sophia Burset aka Laverne Cox for her tutorial; it worked so well the first time.
New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito revealed on Twitter today that she's been diagnosed with "high-risk HPV," and needs to get a biopsy as soon as possible.
Guess what? There might be a new way to detect cervical cancer that doesn’t involve a pap smear. Unfortunately, this new fangled test still uses a cold speculum. Sorry ladies.
New research has indicated that HPV vaccines do not carry the strains of the disease that most affect black women, citing a lack of diversity in clinical trials of the vaccine. HPV, one of the most common sexually transmitted infections, has about 100 different strains, 40 of which are spread by sexual contact. The…
In November of last year, Miss America contestant Allyn Rose discovered that she had inherited a high genetic risk of breast cancer. She decided to get a double mastectomy—but only if she didn't win the pageant. But Even this wasn't enough of a kotow to the powers of pageantry. When she went public with her decision,…
New research today from the Department of Oh My God Why Does This Study Have To Exist — turns out, vaccinating teenage girls against HPV won't cause them to go from innocent children drawing pictures of flowers with crayons to unstoppable slutzillas. Sort of like how wearing seatbelts doesn't cause car accidents, or…
One would think that out of all the things in this great spinning, swirling, Shake Weighting world of ours, cancer prevention would be the one cause that everyone — no matter what funny hat they think God told them to wear — could get behind. But one dogged Canadian Bishop has bravely gone against the grain, fighting…
Get ready to update your gynecological scorecards, because now we have yet another recommendation on what should be happening to your lady business every year. While more and more doctors are using tests for HPV, an influential federal advisory panel has announced it won't endorse HPV screening and only recommends Pap…
Vinegar has dozens of uses, an one is saving women's lives. Doctors may be able to significantly reduce the rate of cervical cancer deaths in poor countries thanks to a procedure involving the common household substance.
Yesterday was the deadline for Michele Bachmann to accept University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan's challenge to produce a single person who's developed "mental retardation" from Gardasil. Caplan offered to donate $10,000 to a charity of her choice if she could just locate the mystery woman whose daughter…
Michele Bachmann is continuing to all-out make up stuff about the HPV vaccine, but she never said she's a scientist. As it happens, one of them just bet her $10,000 to prove that there is a real person who developed "mental retardation" from Gardasil.
"The vagina is becoming big business." This is not a story about sex work — it's about marketers talking honestly about female genitalia, and the fact that the AP is getting away with using it high up in their stories is basically case in point.
Michele Bachmann seems to have struck gold at yesterday's Republican debate. She went after Rick "I Hate Cancer" Perry, again for mandating an HPV vaccine, and she hasn't stopped pushing it since. But as anyone who's followed this debate already knows, this is not about vaccine side effects, government mandates, or…
Tonight at the CNN/Tea Party Express Republican debate in Tampa, Rick Perry's decision to issue an executive order in 2007 mandating HPV vaccines for girls came up again, and the other candidates went into attack mode — particularly Michele Bachmann. The Republican candidates discussion of the HPV vaccine contained a…
A study found that taking just two doses of the HPV vaccine may be as effective at preventing cervical cancer as taking the recommended three doses. It's great news, since plenty of people aren't getting all three shots anyway.
A cervical cancer survivor has started a dating site for people who can't — or would rather not — have sex. Her new venture challenges the notion that all relationships have to be sexual.
The FDA has approved a new test for HPV, which detects risk of cervical cancer even when a pap smear comes out normal.
Last September, I was trying to drink on my lunch hour when the doctor's office called. I hate when the doctor's office calls when I am trying to drink on my lunch hour. But the phone call wasn't a surprise. I'd had my first abnormal pap smear results in 2009, and I didn't have much faith in my cervix to have gotten…
