Vaccine for Girls Could Be Required
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By David Klepper, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jan. 31--TOPEKA -- Kansas has joined the growing list of states considering a plan to require girls to be vaccinated against a virus that causes cervical cancer.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- New Mexico is on the verge of becoming the latest state to require sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer, a spokesman for the governor said Monday.
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Every Massachusetts girl between the ages of 9 and 18 would be eligible to receive a free vaccine against the virus that causes cervical cancer under Gov. Deval Patrick's budget proposal.
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Years of clinical trials have yielded promising results for a vaccine that would protect women from a virus that causes colon and cervical cancer, researchers said on Monday.
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The D.C. Council Committee on Health voted yesterday to send the full council a bill requiring pre-teen girls to be immunized against the virus that causes cervical cancer.
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A cervical cancer vaccine cold cut deaths by three quarters if given to all 12-year-old girls, a study says.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Thursday he would sign legislation requiring all sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer.
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A new vaccine gives women at least several years of protection from the virus blamed for most cases of cervical cancer, according to the findings of a University of Washington-led study announced yesterday.
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British schoolgirls are to be offered vaccinations against cervical cancer from next year, in a scheme which could save hundreds of lives a year, officials said Friday.
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Years of clinical trials have yielded promising results for a vaccine that would protect women from a virus that causes cervical cancer.
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WASHINGTON - A vaccine may work to protect women against a virus that causes most cervical cancer cases, US researchers say. So far the vaccine seemed to have protected women from precancerous changes for three years, said the team at Merck and Co.
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It&#39;s one of the most common cancers in women and kills about a quarter of a million patients each year but scientists said on Friday that a new vaccine could prevent most cases of cervical cancer.
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Texas lawmakers are fighting to block the governor's order requiring that sixth-grade girls be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, with the House giving key approval to a bill to make the shots strictly voluntary.
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Minister for Children Margaret Hodge is calling for schoolgirls to receive contraceptive injections.
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Experts met in London Tuesday to discuss how to make a cervical cancer vaccine available to women in poor countries who need it most.
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Experts push for cervical cancer vaccines to be made available to the developing world.
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Now that a hard-to-get meningitis vaccine is more plentiful, health experts recommended Wednesday that the shots be given to all children ages 11-18.