U.S. researchers have claimed that a vaccine for cervical cancer in women also cures genital warts in males prompting the drug's maker to seek federal approval to sell it.

Researchers who injected Gardasil and fake vaccines on more than 4,000 males aged 16 to 26 in 20 countries over a six-month period found that 90 percent of recipients who got the real shot did not develop the sexually transmitted disease 30 months later. The group given the fake drug resulted in 101 cases of genital warts infection

One of every four teenage girls took the medically prescribed vaccine for four types the human papillomavirus and cervical cancer last year, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed.

The ratio was based on the agency's 2007 phone survey of 1,500 girls aged 13 to 17, though the health officials' recommendation is for girls to start the Gardasil vaccination as early as age 11 or 12, before sexual activity starts

Three European scientists have shared the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine.

Two French scientists Luc Montagnier, director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, of the Institut Pasteur, discovered the AIDS virus. They won half the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns (US$1.4-million) for discovering the deadly virus

Two French savants and a German scientist are this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine awardees.

Frenchmen Luc Montagnier, the director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, from the Institut Pasteur were recognized Monday for their discovery of the fatal Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome virus, which had killed million of people. For their valuable scientific contribution, the two were awarded half of the $1.39 billion (800,000 pound) prize money

Alberta health officials and Roman Catholic Church leaders in the province have turned a vaccination issue into a public debate, when the Calgary Catholic School Division disallowed schoolgirls to receive vaccination against the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus or HPV.

The Calgary Herald reported that Bishop Fred Henry believes that vaccination against STDs is in effect allowing sexual promiscuity and premarital sex among Catholic schoolgirls