Discoveries about HPV and HIV earn three European virologists the prestigious Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Doctors in British Columbia tested a program giving women an opportunity to get Pap tests without appointments. It was so successful, they’re expanding it.

Want to learn more about HPV, cervical cancer or ovarian cancer? University of Washington Television offers programs that you can watch at home or on the run.

Physicians from Uganda and Connecticut discuss abstinence, condoms, cancer, HIV, and snow (plus a few other interesting topics) on Yale Cancer Center Answers.

South African health officials are hoping the installation a new Positron Emission Tomography – Computed Tomography (PET-CT) scanner will help them reduce cancer deaths in their country. While PET-CT imaging devices are commonly used to diagnose cancer in US hospitals, this is only the second one available to patients in South Africa’s public hospitals. Mr [...]

If you’ve been reading our journal for a while, you know I’m a big fan of OR-Live, an innovative web site that lets you watch cutting-edge medical procedures from the comfort of your own home. OR-Live covers a wide variety of operations going on around the country and tonight’s will involve a cancer patient. This [...]

Scientists from the University of Chieti in Italy have found that a gene which normally functions in the placenta during the early stages of pregnancy is also expressed in most human cancers. Professor Saverio Alberti and his team discovered that the Trop-2 gene was involved in the formation of invasive cells needed during the stage [...]

A routine visit to your local dentist may soon include a quick test for oral cancer. University of Texas researchers have developed a simple and inexpensive test which dentists can use to detect cancerous cells in the mouth in as little as 10 minutes. A small acrylic testing device strains cells taken from the patient’s [...]

An international study published in the August 4, 2007, edition of the medical journal The Lancet reports that a simple, inexpensive test can effectively detect early signs of cervical cancer. The test involves a trained healthcare worker washing the cervix with cotton gauze and acetic acid (a component found in vinegar). After one minute, pre-cancerous [...]

Digene Corporation (NASDAQ: DIGE) and Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated (NYSE: DGX) have entered into a four-year extension on their existing contract to provide diagnostic screening for the Human Papillomavirus (HPV). HPV is the primary cause of cervical cancer, one of the most common malignancies affecting women around the world. Digene currently markets the only FDA-approved test [...]