The FDA announced on Friday that Gardasil is now approved for people up to 45 years of age.

Also, *if you have already been diagnosed with HPV at some point*, if you can get your doctor and insurance company (maybe just don’t tell them) to cover it, there are studies that have demonstrated that the vaccine has not only a preventative but a therapeutic effect.

Full disclosure, I participated in one of these studies and have tested negative every year since for 11 years. GET IT!