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Cervical cancer vaccine approved by FDA »
Posted by: Fabienne 2 years, 2 months agoThe FDA approved a groundbreaking cervical cancer vaccine called Gardasil this week. From the article "Cervical cancer is the second-leading cause of death in women across the globe, affecting an estimated 470,000 women and killing 233,000 each year...In the United States, about 9,710 women contract cervical cancer each year, and some 3,700 die." The vaccine prevents against "two human papillomavirus strains that cause 70 percent of cancers and another two strains that cause 90 percent of genital warts." The vaccine, approved for 11 and 12 year old girls, before sexual activity begins, is likely to be lobbied against by religious groups.
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marialight
April 26, 2007, 10:41 p.m.Parents should be serious to take their children to get vaccinated. The vaccine experiment is based on those young
women as inital trial, who have not had sex activity and have not get HPV. The study shows it is 100 pretection against the virus. The mandatory vaccine will not casue the high sex activity but just protect them from hpv that may casue cervical cancer or genital warts.
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Multichannel audio specialist and futurist Fabienne Serriere is a Franco-American hardware, software and embedded interaction designer. She believes in a gorgeous technologically morphable future. Her ...
