Cervical cancer hearing
Executive Summary
FDA is expected to testify at Jan. 28 hearing of the House Government Reform/Human Resources Subcommittee on cervical cancer prevention and research. CDC, NCI and CMS have also been invited to the hearing, which will likely include discussion of the effectiveness of condoms in preventing transmission of human papillomavirus. Merck expects to file a BLA for an HPV vaccine in 2005 (1"The Pink Sheet" Dec. 22, 2003, p. 25)...