4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (803+ words) The drug, INBRX-106, activates OX40, a protein on T cells that helps sustain immune attacks on tumors. Keytruda works by releasing a brake on the immune system, while an OX40 drug is meant to press the accelerator at the same time. Inhibrx…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (753+ words) HPV vaccination among American teenagers has now gone four straight years without increasing, and coverage for the two other routine adolescent vaccines slipped from the previous year. That is the finding of a CDC surveillance report in the Morbidity and…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (900+ words) Human papillomavirus vaccination among American teenagers did not increase for the fourth year in a row, according to national survey data the CDC published this week, and the gap between rural and urban adolescents is the largest of any routine…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (583+ words) Under the microscope, they look like the outlines of cells that used to be there. Pale, swollen, keratinized shapes with the nucleus gone, leaving only a faint shadow where it used to sit. Pathologists call them ghost cells, and when…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (832+ words) For years, HPV vaccination has been closely associated with preventing cervical cancer. But the virus does not only affect women, and researchers are finding more reasons to pay attention to what vaccination can do for men. Three recent studies have…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (926+ words) The share of American women in their twenties who have never had a cervical cancer screening more than doubled between 2005 and 2023, reaching nearly one in three, according to a new analysis of federal survey data. The finding matters because cervical…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago   (793+ words) People vaccinated against human papillomavirus between the ages of nine and 26 were 68 percent less likely to be diagnosed with head or neck cancer than a comparison group vaccinated against other diseases, according to an analysis of 1.4 million medical records published…...