The FDA approved Gardasil, the vaccine that will help prevent four types of HPV, the human papilloma virus. As many know, this virus causes cervical cancer in women. Nearly 4,000 women die each year because of cervical cancer, much of it caused by HPV.
This is the first vaccine that actually prevents cancer. A break through if you ask me. Hopefully this will open doors to more vaccines for other types of cancer and diseases.
We can only hope.
Excellent. For a while there I figured they weren't even TRYING to cure anything. (Since the money's in the medicine, and all that. -_-)
Posted by: J00kst3r at June 10, 2006 11:09 PMYeah, no kidding. I left out the parts where the conservatives are all in a hissy over a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease. I'd just love to smack the shit out them and their "lets use a deadly disease to terrify people into our morals and beliefs" attitude. Fuckers are going to burn in hell for sure.
Posted by: Zoso at June 11, 2006 07:10 PMI've also heard that this is the only vaccine that is 100% effective.
Posted by: Mia_Hoshifaia at June 12, 2006 11:36 AM