Panel to recommend age for HPV shots
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Should a new vaccination against a sexually transmitted disease be given to girls as young as 9 years old? That question will be taken up Thursday by a panel that helps set government recommendations on what shots U.S. citizens should get &amp;#151; and at what age.
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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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All girls aged 12 or 13 should be vaccinated against the viruses that cause cervical cancer, government health advisors said today.
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The FDA has only approved the vaccine for girls women up to age 26. Now a medical debate is raging over whether older women should get it too
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(Atlanta-AP, Dec. 17, 2004 4:40 PM) _ A federal panel says flu shots should be made available to everyone 50 and older -- not just the elderly, infants or those with chronic health problems.
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Texas became the first U.S. state  to require that all 11- and 12-year-old girls be vaccinated  against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, a sexually  transmitted disease that can cause cervical cancer, the  governor's office said on Friday.
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The vaccine targets the two most common types of cervical cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV), HPV-16 and HPV-18. In a randomized, controlled trial, US researcher Diane Harper from Dartmouth Medical
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NEW YORK  - Adolescent girls should make their first visit to an obstetrician-gynecologist at around 13 to 15 years of age, even though routine Pap testing doesn&#39;t usually start until they&#39;re older, according to a recommendation from the
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By John Moritz and Jan Jarvis, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 3--AUSTIN -- Texas is poised to become the first state in the nation to require 11- and 12-year-old girls to be vaccinated for the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.   Gov.
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Men should be vaccinated against a  sexually transmitted wart virus to protect them against a type  of mouth and throat cancer, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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At least one in 10 girls in England is infected by a virus which can cause cervical cancer by the age of 16, research suggests.
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A federal advisory panel yesterday recommended expanding the groups considered a priority for receiving flu shots if vaccine is available.
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A Merck vaccine, which makes people immune to a common sexually transmitted virus (human papilloma virus - HPV) which causes cervical cancer, seems to continue offering protection from cervical cancer two years after preliminary testing, say scientists at
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State health authorities are recommending looser guidelines for the flu vaccine, extending the injections to people down to age 50 and to certain children ages 2 to 18.
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The panel voted unanimously that Menactra is safe and effective for use in patients aged 11 to 55 years. The new meningitis vaccine could prevent the often fatal disease from infecting the highest risk group
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By Houston Chronicle  Feb. 8--There are a lot of valid questions percolating around Gov. Rick Perry's executive order that Texas school girls be vaccinated against cervical cancer -- unless their parents decline. All deserve answers.
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All adolescent girls in European Union countries should be vaccinated against a virus that is linked to most cases of cervical cancer, a leading medical journal said on Friday.