UK schoolgirls get 'cancer jab'
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Schoolgirls in Britain will be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, ministers have announced.
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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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Pupils at three Birmingham schools are given an overdose of the MMR vaccine, health chiefs confirm.
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Pupils at a school are offered antibiotics after three pupils contract a bug that can cause meningitis.
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In barely nine months, the first cancer-specific vaccine to win federal approval has gone from licensing and the enthusiastic embrace of dozens of states to a widespread backlash against moves to mandate immunization for adolescent girls.
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A school in Kent introduces random drug testing of pupils as they return for the spring term.
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All girls of 11 in the EU should be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, a medical journal says.
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Michigan girls entering the sixth grade next year would have to be vaccinated against cervical cancer under legislation backed Tuesday by a bipartisan group of female lawmakers.
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An ad for a cancer vaccine finds a way to sell itself to teenagers and their parents.
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By Leigh Woosley, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 19--Mary Bryce Fox didn't ask her daughters. She told them.   The girls would get a controversial vaccine that protects against the sexually transmitted disease that causes genital warts and most cervical cancer.
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It'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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A team of scientists in Glasgow say they have devised a new method of attacking cancer cells.
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A 13-year-old girl is shot in the face and the leg with an air gun in the grounds of a Leicestershire school.
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The actress met children suffering from cancer on the occasion of Rose Day recently.
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New Mexico is on the verge of becoming the latest state to require girls entering sixth grade to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitting virus that can cause cervical cancer, a spokesman for the governor said Monday.
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British health officials say female teenagers are significantly more likely to test positive for chlamydia than are women in their 20s.
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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.