Some parents have also feared that the HPV vaccine would make their daughters more promiscuous, but that was found to not be the case in an Oct. 2012 survey of almost 1,400 girls.

Readers are still commenting on my post on why the adverse event reports on Gardasil seem to indicate the vaccine is safe. One particularly persuasive line of comment comes from reader Stephanie ...

Gardasil has been blamed for a lot of illnesses, and in a new study, researchers looked at the incidence of two such issues—complex regional pain syndrome and postural orthostatic tachycardia ...

What's True. An item published in the journal 'Pediatrics' indicated that a third of 600 doctors surveyed failed to recommend Gardasil to patients, primarily due to anticipated parental objection ...

Unlike previous vaccines, Gardasil-9 protects against nine different strains of HPV, including the ones that are most common in Black and Latina women.

The Gardasil® vaccine—called a “quadrivalent vaccine” because it protects against four HPV types (6, 11, 16, and 18)—was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2006 for girls and young women ...

At six years after the first dose, Gardasil 9's efficacy against cervical, vulvar and vaginal cancers related to HPV 31, 33, 45, 52, 58—five additional HPV types above the four covered in the ...

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.