New HPV test discovered and proven effective

HPV (Human papillomavirus) affects 80 percent of all sexually active people at at least one point in their lives. Most of the time, the virus is harmless, but several of the virus strands are linked to causing cervical cancer.
That’s the bad news.
The good news is that researchers in the Netherlands have created a new HPV [...]

The Nobel Prize in medicine

This year’s Nobel Prize for medicine went to researchers who identified the viruses for AIDS and HPV, which paved the way for treatments for illnesses caused those viruses.
Two French scientists — Luc Montagnier, director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi of the Institut Pasteur — won for their research [...]