Cancer prevention has fallen victim to the culture wars. Throughoutthe United States, state legislatures are scrambling to respondto the availability of Merck's human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine,Gardasil, and to the likely introduction of GlaxoSmithKline'snot-yet-approved HPV vaccine, Cervarix, which have been shownto be effective in preventing infection with HPV strains thatcause about 70% of cases of cervical cancer. At the Centersfor Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Advisory Committeeon Immunization Practices (ACIP) has voted unanimously to recommendthat girls 11 and 12 years of age receive the vaccine, and theCDC has added Gardasil . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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