The new study finds that rates of infection with HPV 16 or 18 -- the two strains most heavily implicated in cervical cancer -- have markedly declined between 2008 and 2014.
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Thursday, 21 February 2019
U.S. Leads Rich Nations in Drug Overdose Deaths
Drug deaths in the United States are more than 27 times higher than in Italy and Japan, which have the lowest rates, and are double the rates of Finland and Sweden, the countries with the next highest death rates.
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Aggressive Breast Cancer Responds to New Drug
In the clinical trial of the new drug, sacituzumab govitecan, about a third of the patients responded to treatment and the effect lasted up to eight months. The research was funded by the drug's maker.
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Nurse Builds Database of Women Murdered By Men
Since 2017, a school nurse in a Dallas suburb has been counting women murdered by men.
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