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...children get before they're allowed to attend school. And this is where the fight breaks out. Back in the fall when the vaccine was submitted for FDA approval, some conservatives began asking whether physical protection could come at a moral cost: the technical term is "disinhibition, which the CDC defines as "an increase in unsafe behaviors in response to perceptions of safety caused by introduction of a preventive or therapeutic intervention." (Once upon a time the concern was raised about introducing anesthesia during childbirth, or using penicillin to treat syphilis, as spurring more sexual activity; more recently, the argument...
...licence to engage in premarital sex." Others warned of promoting false confidence, since the vaccine does not protect against all strains of HPV or the many other sexually transmitted diseases. Reginald Finger, a former medical advisor to Focus on the Family who sits on the CDC advisory committee, told The Hill that "if people begin to market the vaccine or tout the vaccine that this makes adolescent sex safer, then that would undermine the abstinence-only message...
...stock it until they are sure insurers are going to pay for it," says Dr. Cynthia Rand, a pediatrician at the Golisano Children's Hospital at the University of Rochester in New York. The next step is for an advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to decide whether to make the vaccine mandatory for girls in the U.S. and, if so, for which age groups. Research suggests the vaccine is most effective when given before sexual activity begins, so the initial target group is likely to be girls ages 11 through 12. On the basis...
...approval is the first hurdle for the vaccine, which now faces a committee of the Centers for Disease Control on June 29. It's the CDC's job to decide who should receive the vaccine, and when. They are considering making the vaccine mandatory, like the childhood immunizations against measles and rubella, for all girls aged 11-12. Based on the CDC's recommendation, state officials and private insurers will then determine whether they will pay for the shots - no easy task since the vaccine is given three times over six months and costs $360. In order to be most...
Another example of new research refining old ideas? Not this time. The change had less to do with medicine than with marketing. "Our concern," explains Russell Pate, an exercise physiologist at the University of South Carolina and lead author of the CDC report, "was that a very large percentage of the adult population was not meeting the existing standard." Reasoning that the guidelines were just too intimidating for most people and that a little exercise had to be better than none at all, Pate and his colleagues decided to lighten up the message. "The recommendations do not say," he emphasizes...