Preventive Care
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Growth in preventive personalized medicine could increase life expectancy
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PAS: Texting beats phone reminders for HPV vaccine completion
Key clinical point: Text message reminders for HPV vaccine completion for those who had already started the series were effective. Major finding:...
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Exercise may lower risk for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
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HCV increases general cancer risk
Key clinical point: Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection raises the risk of all types of cancer, not just liver cancer. Major finding: The...
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Gardasil vaccination reduces cervical dysplasia in teen years
Key clinical point: HPV vaccination effectively reduces cervical dysplasia in teens. Major finding: For every 175 girls vaccinated, 1 case of...
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New 9-valent HPV vaccine is efficacious, well tolerated
Key clinical point: The 9-valent vaccine has broader coverage than does the quadrivalent vaccine and is similarly safe. Major finding: The 9-...
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Task Force: Start biennial mammograms at age 50
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Serum antibodies don’t protect men against new oral HPV16
Key clinical point: Healthy adult men with antibodies induced by a natural HPV16 infection may not be protected against a new oral HPV infection....