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Gardasil (Merck & Co.), also known as Gardisil or Silgard, is a vaccine against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV). Gardasil is designed to prevent infection with HPV types 16, 18, 6, and 11. HPV types 16 and 18 currently cause about 70% of cervical cancer cases, and also cause some vulvar, vaginal, penile and anal cancers. HPV types 6 and 11 cause about 90% of genital warts cases. Human... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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Wart Gardasil, a vaccine for HPV is designed to prevent infection with HPV types 16, 18, 6, and 11; it is claimed to prevent infections to other strains of anogenital warts through cross protection against other types of HPV's.

Wart Gardasil is designed to prevent infection with HPV types 16, 18, 6, and 11.

Human papillomavirus HPV vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, which prevent infection with some of the sexually transmitted HPV types that cause the most disease may lead to further decreases in the incidence of HPV-induced cancers.

Gardasil Gardasil is designed to prevent infection with HPV types 16, 18, 6, and 11.

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Gardasil The National Cancer Institute says, "FDA-approved Gardasil prevented nearly 100 percent of the precancerous cervical cell changes caused by the types of HPV targeted by the vaccine for up to 4 years after vaccination."

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women and girls.

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Dina Titus Gardasil protects women and girls from 70% of cervical cancers.

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Dina Titus Gardasil protects women and girls from 70% of cervical cancers.

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Gardasil Gardasil contains recombinant VLPs assembled from the L1 proteins of HPVs 6, 11, 16 and 18.

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Bovine papillomavirus Both Gardasil (a quadrivalent prophylactic HPV vaccine licensed in 2006) and Cervarix (a bivalent prophylactic vaccine under consideration for licensing as of 2007) contain virus-like particles assembled from L1 protein, an approach successful against BPV, and both vaccines induce sustained immunity.

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    Gardasil

    See also: HPV vaccine Gardasil (Merck & Co.), also known as Gardisil or Silgard, is a vaccine against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV).
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    HPV vaccine

    Gardasil and Cervarix are preventative (rather than therapeutic) vaccines, recommended for women who are 9 to 25 years old and have not contracted HPV.
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    Wart

    Gardasil is a vaccine aimed at preventing cervical cancers and anogenital warts.
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    Human papillomavirus

    However only 3.4% were infected with one or more of the four types prevented by the Gardasil vaccine, which was lower than previous estimates.
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    Sixtoo

    Gardasil TV Commercial - Chainsaw Buffet from Chewing On Glass & Other Miracle Cures http://www.gardasil.com/tv-commercial2-for-gardasil.html
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    Merck & Co.

    Peter S. Kim, Ph.D., Executive vice president and president, Merck Research Laboratories Industry Pharmaceuticals Products Gardasil
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    Cervarix

    Company officials are now conducting a clinical trial to determine whether Cervarix is more effective than rival Merck's HPV vaccine Gardasil.
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    Cervical cancer

    Merck & Co. has developed a vaccine against four strains of HPV (6,11,16,18), called Gardasil.
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    University of Louisville

    Shin-je Ghim, medical researcher, co-invented HPV vaccine Gardasil
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    Dina Titus

    Titus authored a bill that requires health insurance companies to cover the costs of the HPV vaccine, Gardasil.
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