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...Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently advised parents to have their middle-school-aged daughters vaccinated against a common sexually transmitted disease closely linked to cervical cancer. But legislators in 10 states are seeking to go one step further and require vaccinations against the human papillomavirus (HPV) for all girls entering middle school...
...increasingly common sexually transmitted disease and one that scientists say is linked to 70% of all cases of cervical cancer. Gardasil, the first vaccine to fight cancer, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration last June. The CDC says the vaccine has been tested, is safe and goes a long way toward preventing the deadly cancer which is estimated to have affected 9,710 women in 2006, killing...
...Curtis Allen, a spokesman for the CDC, said the vaccine was included for the first time in its annual schedule of recommended childhood immunizations, released earlier this month. The advisory group that publishes the scientific documents about the recommendation is still working on the language for a final document, which he said should be released in about six weeks. "But it's a pretty straightforward recommendation," Allen said. He added that girls "ages 11 to 12, and downward to as young as 9 and up to 26, should get the vaccine...
...great culture, it's a great people. But the - it's not possible with this regime clearly, but we have a group of wrestlers from the United States going to Iran in a couple days. We've had medical personnel from Iran here. They went to the CDC and, you know, and places like that. So we're trying to reach out to the Iranian people, too, and to keep open the hope of the Iranian people for a democratic future...
...Programme. Malaria is a leading cause of death in the developing world, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Between 350 and 500 million cases of malaria emerge each year, and another African child under the age of five dies from the disease every 40 seconds, according to CDC data. But the results of the research provide some optimism in the global fight against the disease, Sabeti said. “It’s an exciting first step,” she said...