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Researchers redesign vaginal speculum to ease fear and pain
AFP, Published on 14/07/2025
» DELFT (NETHERLANDS) - It is cold, hard, metallic and commonly associated with pain. Not a mediaeval torture instrument, but the vaginal speculum used every day around the world for essential gynaecological exams.
Tennis legend Navratilova facing 'double whammy' cancer battle
AFP, Published on 03/01/2023
» PARIS - Tennis legend Martina Navratilova says she is hoping for a "favourable outcome" after being diagnosed with breast and throat cancer.
US woman who contracted STD in car awarded $5.2m from vehicle insurer
AFP, Published on 11/06/2022
» LOS ANGELES: A US woman who contracted a sexually transmitted disease from her partner during romantic encounters in his car has been awarded $5.2 million in damages from his vehicle insurance company.
HPV vaccines 'substantially' reduce cervical cancer risk, study finds
AFP, Published on 04/11/2021
» PARIS: Cervical cancer cases plummeted among British women who were vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, according to a study published on Thursday.
Fraught history haunts Japan virus vaccine roll-out
AFP, Published on 08/01/2021
» TOKYO - A history of vaccine controversies in Japan may cast a long shadow over the coronavirus jab roll-out, experts warn, even as the country battles a severe third wave of infections.
Photos of Chinese tourists at Hong Kong hospital go viral
South China Morning Post, Published on 24/02/2019
» Hundreds of visitors queued for hours to get HPV vaccines at an elite private hospital in Hong Kong on Saturday, prompting a heated debate among locals as to how medical services would cope as the city was further integrated into the “Greater Bay Area”.
Vaccine could virtually eliminate cervical cancer: study
AFP, Published on 20/02/2019
» PARIS - The rapid scale-up of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine could virtually eliminate cervical cancer in a handful of rich countries within three decades, and in most other nations by century's end, researchers said Wednesday.