Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.

Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.

Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.

In the U.S., the HPV vaccine has been credited with a 79% reduction in the incidence of cervical precancer in women ages 20-24. Introduced in 2006, the HPV vaccine initially was approved only for ...

To analyze how the incidence of cervical cancer has changed since the introduction of the HPV vaccine, investigators tracked cervical precancers (CIN2+ and CIN3+) in five U.S. areas from 2008 to ...

The vaccine distributed in the U.S., Gardasil-9, targets nine types of HPV. Vaccination can prevent more than 90% of cancers caused by HPV. Since the prior Gardasil 4 vaccine was introduced in ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) MS is a progressive autoimmune disease that causes demyelination in the brain, spine, or optic nerve. The immune system damages myelin, forming lesions or “plaques”.

A safe and well-tolerated vaccine can prevent about 90% of such cancers. But to be highly effective, HPV vaccines must be given at a young age, before the onset of sexual activity, and at least two ...

What sets the vaccine apart is its ability to protect against multiple strains of HPV simultaneously. By targeting these strains, which are responsible for the majority of HPV-related cancers, the ...

If you didn’t receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine when you were a pre-teen/teenager, you may want to consider getting it as an adult, especially if you’re recently divorced or ...

Stock image of a woman getting a vaccine (main) and a model of a uterus, cervix and ovaries (inset). Cervical cancer deaths have fallen sharply thanks to HPV vaccinations. ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES ...

There is a vaccine for HPV that can prevent over 90% of HPV-related cancers. In 2022, however, just 38.6% of young people in the U.S. had received at least one of the two recommended doses.