Pap tests and HPV testing are a vital part of women's health care, but many people dread the invasive examination every three years. For some women, particularly sexual violence survivors ...

Physicians partnered with dentists to administer HPV vaccines during dental visits. Vaccine uptake improved from 5.3% to 13.9% during the intervention period. Partnering with dental clinics to ...

Doctors are saying human papillomavirus (HPV) infections, a sexually transmitted disease, are causing the spike in cases. Head and neck cancers have traditionally been associated with smoking and ...

The reported noted that the decrease is alarming as HPV vaccination rates have remained “statistically unchanged” in recent years. In 2023, 61.4% of adolescents ages 13 to 17 were up-to-date ...

However, cervical cancer screening remains lower than pre-pandemic levels, and the HPV vaccination rate has not increased since the pandemic, researchers found. Other major cancer risk factors ...

Molecular evidence suggested a link between HPV and thyroid eye disease in a small study. Orbital tissue samples showed elevated HPV18 L1 IgG titers in those with chronic or acute active thyroid ...