Nearly everyone who is not vaccinated will get an HPV infection at some point in their lifetime, according the U.S. Centers ...

The vaccine against the human papilloma virus (HPV) is not only effective in decreasing the rate of high risk types of HPV infections in girls and women, but it also shows evidence of bestowing ...

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 ...

Until last year, when my current ob-gyn informed me that the HPV vaccine age limit had changed. In 2018, the FDA expanded its approval to include women and men aged 27 through 45 years.

American women aged under 25 between 2016 and 2021—who were the first cohort of people to be given the HPV vaccine during their teen years—have a much lower rate of cervical cancer mortality ...

When the [first] HPV vaccine was approved and released, the general thought about it wasn't, “Oh, we have a vaccine against potentially multiple cancers.” No, that wasn't the mindset.

The drug Gardasil, used for HPV vaccinations, is roughly 97 percent effective in preventing cervical cancer. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has often singled out Gardasil in his critiques of vaccines.

Women in their 20s are the group most likely to have been given the HPV vaccine, which has been recommended in the U.S. since 2006 for girls at age 11 or 12 and since 2011 for boys the same age.

Women in their 20s are the group most likely to have been given the HPV vaccine, which has been recommended in the U.S. since 2006 for girls at age 11 or 12 and since 2011 for boys the same age.

Specifically, the CDC recommends the HPV vaccine at age 11 or 12, though it can be started as young as 9; for anyone who didn’t receive it as a kid, the agency suggests still getting it through ...

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 ...