If you didn't receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine when you were a pre-teen/teenager, you may want to consider getting it as an adult, especially if you're recently divorced or widowed and ...

Cancer, even the word itself, evokes fear. It’s a shadow that looms over nearly everyone as they age, sparking anxious questions: Will I get it? What kind? Will it be caught early enough? While ...

University of Bristol provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Few viruses are as widespread – and sometimes misunderstood – as the human papillomavirus, or HPV. It’s so common ...

You’d think if there were a vaccine that would prevent tens of thousands of cases of cancer a year, people would want it for themselves and for their kids. But new data being released Thursday ahead ...

The sexually transmitted infection human papillomavirus (HPV) is really, really, ridiculously common. Roughly 13 million people get it each year, according to CDC data, and it’s safe to assume that if ...

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Thanks for reading Can We Talk?, a sex and relationships column that aims to tackle the burning questions about sex, dating, relationships, and breakups that you’re too afraid to ask your partner — or ...

Getting HPV from an object like a toilet seat is very unlikely, and the risk of it happening isn't supported by research. Be aware, though, that the virus can be passed on via non-sexual contact, such ...

College kids are as dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to understanding how to protect themselves from the human papillomavirus (or, as it’s known in the industry, “HPV”) according to a Texas State ...

To the editor: In 2009 I underwent a cancer ordeal very similar to that of Paul Thornton’s wife. (“This cancer vaccine should spare future generations from ordeals like my wife’s,” Opinion, Dec. 28) ...