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Milestones

...Hephzibah High School.Knology recently presented a check for $7,830 raised during the Augusta Pajama Run to the Georgia Health Sciences University Cancer Center. The donation will support Dr. Daron Ferris' cervical cancer research.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-12-31/milestones
HPV vaccines provide a new hope for cancer

...today, it's a reality for cervical cancer.The vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix...specific cancers, including cervical cancer, the 12th most commonly diagnosed...Administration to protect against cervical cancer caused by HPV types 16 and 18...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/opinion-columns/2013-01-13/hpv-vaccines-pro
Breast Cancer Awareness Month events

...Martinez; 24 bikes spinning for four hours, $12 an hour; benefits East Central Health District's Breast Cancer and Cervical Cancer Prevention Program to provide free mammograms to women; (706) 831-SPINOCT. 28South Augusta Women's Health...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/we-think-pink/2012-09-30/breast-cancer-awarene
Health care component on women's preventative care goes into effect Aug. 1

...After The Affordable Care Act was passed in March 2010, other basic services such as mammograms and screenings for cervical cancer became automatically covered under health plans with no cost to patients. Dr. Lawrence Layman, Georgia Health Sciences...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-07-31/health-care-component-wo
Lung CT scans cost-effective group at high risk of cancer, study finds

...Lung cancer kills about 150,000 people a year in the U.S., which is more than breast, colon, prostate and cervical cancers combined, according to the study.Thoracic surgeon Philip Catalano helped push Doctors Hospital to offer the low-cost...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-04-09/lung-ct-scans-cost-effective
VA looks for ways to better serve female veterans

...treatment for a variety of ailments at the clinic, from the joint and back pain caused by heavy battle gear to breast and cervical cancer screenings. Studies from the VA show 31 percent of female veterans have both medical and mental health conditions...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-05-30/va-looks-ways-better-serve-f
Strange bedfellows, good debate

...governor to issue an executive order requiring the vaccination of all young girls in Texas against the virus that causes cervical cancer. Perry's motivations may have been pure, but the action was out of a Third-World dictatorship, and will be...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2011-09-13/strange-bedfellows-go
GlaxoSmithKline Q3 net profit up 7 percent

...company was under pressure from shrinking government health care budgets.The sales surge in Japan was led by GSK's cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix, which is being used in a national vaccination program.Vaccine sales overall were up 16 percent...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2011-10-26/glaxosmithkline-q3-net-profi
Yes, his to lose

...issued an executive order to vaccinate Texas girls as young as 11 against the sexually transmitted disease that causes cervical cancer ? without so much as a second from the legislature. And when confronted about his support for tuition breaks for the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2012-01-21/yes-his-lose
Santorum stands unwavering in his bedrock beliefs

...Mammography Quality Standards Reauthorization Act; the Women's Business Centers Sustainability Act; the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act; the Combating Autism Act; the Welfare Reform Act; the Unborn Victims of Violence...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/opinion-columns/2012-03-03/santorum-stands-