Male circumcision reduces the acquisition of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) and the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, reports a new study. These new data complement previous ...

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 ...

Throat cancer is now the most common type of HPV-related cancer ... that number fell to 70.2%. The team concluded that despite the vaccine eligibility expansion, the public was still largely ...

“There are thousands of strains of HPV — high risk HPV strains are the type linked to cancer. These are not the HPV strains that cause cold sores or genital herpes,” she explained. In the U ...