Gardasil is a vaccine, licensed for use in June 2006, by the FDA. It targets four strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) -- HPV-6, 11, 16, and 18. HPV-16 and HPV-18 account for about 70% of all ...

My medical degree and conversations with doctors helped me understand why it makes sense for adolescents to be vaccinated, writes Clara Wilhelm.

The HPV vaccine, called Gardasil-9 — which has no live virus and is completely non-infectious — protects against the six types of HPV most likely to cause cancer, Eckert says. (These are strains 6, 11 ...

Kennedy Jr., has reignited the conversation around the common sexually transmitted infection—by villainizing the vaccine that fights it. Gardasil 9 is the only HPV vaccine used in the U.S., and ...

HPV, one of the most prevalent sexually transmitted infections, is the cause of nearly 36,000 cancer cases each year in the United States.

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. For diseases that are slow to spread and develop, it's not always easy to tell if a vaccine is effective. But just 3 years into an HPV ...