A government panel wants young boys as well as girls to get the controversial HPV vaccine in part to prevent them from spreading the sexually transmitted virus to girls. Experts say the HPV vaccine could protect boys against genital warts and some kinds of cancers. But they also say vaccinatin ...

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Let us start out with the basics (skip ahead if you re ahead of the class). What is the HPV vaccine? The HPV vaccine also known as Gardasil (made by Merck & Co. Inc.) is a quadrivalent vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV). It is quadrivalent because it protects against 4 types of HPV inc ...

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A survey of almost 900 females ages 11-26 within two weeks of receiving the Gardasil human papillomavirus vaccine found that preteen girls were more likely to report side effects from the immunization. Younger patients also were more likely to have been given other vaccinations - against hepat ...

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As a parent of a pre-teen one may wonder: Should my child get an HPV vaccine? The human papillomavirus or HPV is one of the most common sexually transmitted viruses in the United States. In fact there are about 20 million Americans infected with HPV. There are more than 40 strains of HPV and ...

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Follow me on: The first HPV vaccine mandate didn't go so well. Governor Rick Perry signed an executive order in 2007 that created a mandate for 6th grade girls in Texas to get the HPV vaccine. As most people know Texas legislators quickly passed a law to override his order. Lawmakers in South ...

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The World Reacts to an Adulterated Food Supply

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Imagine if there was a vaccine that could prevent cancer. Everyone would want it right? Surprisingly no. There IS a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer which affects about 12000 women every year according to the CDC. Unlike most cancers cervical cancer is caused by a sexually transmitted virus ...

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Federal health experts are now recommending that all boys be routinely vaccinated against human papillomavirus or HPV. The vaccine already has been recommended for girls and young women since 2006 largely to prevent cervical cancer. But health authorities never expressly encouraged the vaccin ...

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There’s long been a prominent debate in the autism community over vaccines and whether they cause the disorder. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found no evidence to support that fear. And diseases long thought to be wiped out in the U.S. like measles for example have m ...

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I was wondering if anyone has more information about a newborn being given Hep B vaccine immediately after birth and also STD-preventing eye drops. A colleague of mine with kids told me she encountered this when she gave birth and had to ask for both not to happen. My biggest questions (if t ...

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