Furor on Rush to Require Cervical Cancer Vaccine
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The vaccine is costly, and many say the rush toward mandatory inoculation could prove counterproductive.
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The groundbreaking vaccine that prevents cervical cancer in girls is gaining a reputation as the most painful of childhood shots, health experts say. As Austin Powers would say; "Ouch, baby. Very ouch."
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A group of families has sued in an attempt to block Gov. Rick Perry's executive order requiring schoolgirls to be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer.
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Researchers and the medical community alike are excited by a new cervical cancer vaccine. It&#39;s been found to be 100 per cent effective in clinical trials -- the first vaccine ever to prevent a cancer.
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By Sarah Vos, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Feb. 16--FRANKFORT -- Under a bill approved by the House Health and Welfare Committee yesterday, middle school girls would be required to be vaccinated for a virus that causes cervical cancer.
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Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday angrily defended his relationship with Merck &amp; Co. and his executive order requiring that schoolgirls receive the drugmaker's vaccine against the sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.
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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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Issues of fairness have become such a prime concern in divvying up scarce doses of flu vaccine, that health officials now are asking whether some high-risk groups are more deserving than others.
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The world's first cervical cancer   vaccine may give wider protection against the killer disease   than previously thought, researchers said on Sunday.
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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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A lawmaker and key ally of Gov. Rick Perry urged him Monday to rescind his executive order making Texas the first state to require girls to be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
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Amy Groff has heard all about the new vaccine that guards girls against a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. But the Cincinnati mother has no interest in getting her 11-year-old inoculated. Because of the uncertainties, some doctors are telling parents of young girls to wait...
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Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday angrily defended his relationship with Merck &amp; Co. and his executive order requiring that 11- and 12-year-old girls receive the drugmaker's vaccine against the sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.
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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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October 11, 2004 -- Sen. Chuck Schumer yesterday blamed political &quot;ideology&quot; for the nation&#39;s dire shortage of flu vaccine, calling on the federal government to decrease its reliance on private drugmakers
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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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Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline says a Florida company is trying to gouge consumers who fear a vaccine shortage. BY SUZANNE PEREZ TOBIAS.