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Good news for parents: the HPV vaccine is now recommended for boys as well as girls.
The new vaccine schedule released on Thursday goes beyond the tepid language of past schedules and makes the HPV vaccine a “recommended” vaccine for boys ages 11 to 12, and a catch-up vaccine for boys ages 13 to 21.
This is good news if you have a son, since the vaccine protects against genital warts and the cancer-causing virus repsonsible for many oral and anal cancers. It’s good news if you have a daughter, because protecting both boys and girls against the virus means your daughter’s eventual boyfriend is less likely to have HPV and therefore less likely to pass it to her.
A CDC panel has expanded their recommendation on the HPV vaccine to include boys. Finally.
After all the furor over giving this shot to girls, it’s great to see the CDC do the right thing and recommend it to boys as well. The virus can affect boys as well as girls, it’s only right that they also be vaccinated for it.
In case you’ve been living under a rock: the HPV vaccine protects against cancer-causing strains of the human papilloma virus. Because it’s usually sexually transmitted, some Republicans have made a big stink about the vaccine being a license for free sex.
The HPV shot: right for your kid? Probably.
Let’s just go with “yes” on this one.
Need more detail? Here’s one mom’s story of how she decided to bite the bullet and sign her daughter up for the HPV vaccine. She’d initially decided to skip it, given how new the vaccine was and how young her little girl was. Did her 9-year-old really need to be protected from a sexually-transmitted infection? She liked to think not.
Now the vaccine has been around for a few years and her daughter is a few years older. Her thinking on this shot has shifted.
With Michele Bachmann still grabbing headlines over her silly claims about this vaccine, it’s a great time to reiterate why your daughter should have it. Continue reading »
Circumcision lowers incidence of hpv
A study in the journal The Lancet this week reports a finding that circumcisions could provide a protective benefit for partners against the human papilloma virus.
The highly-contagious HPV (which has a dozen different strains) is the primary cause of cervical cancer, which is the second most common cancer in women worldwide, according to Reuters. It “is expected to kill 328,000 this year, mostly in developing countries.”
Studies have previously found that circumcisions could lower the risk for men of contracting HIV.
Here’s what the current study found about the benefits of circumcision: Continue reading »
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A new hot vaccination debate is brewing among experts. As if there aren’t enough of them already right? In recent months professionals have been looking at the controversial HPV vaccine which helps prevent the transmission of the sexually transmitted disease also known as the human papillomavirus.
HPV has also been linked to certain cervical cancers in women which is why we see the vaccine, as well as the big push to have our children vaccinated for something considered a sexually transmitted disease. Continue reading »
The HPV vaccine is being accused of killing five girls in India, according to the website Sify. Government officials deny that there have been any vaccine deaths, and cite other causes in each case.
The HPV vaccinations were carried out by an international NGO programme for Appropriate Technology in Health as part of a study on HPV vaccination. Despite the fact that the national government denies any problems associated with the vaccine, “state governments have been instructed not to carry out any further vaccinations.” Continue reading »
The American Academy of Pediatrics, along with the CDC and the AAFP, recently announced changes to the childhood vaccine schedule.
For parents who follow their pediatrician’s vaccination guidelines, not much will change. New recommendations include:
Joslyn Gray 
Amber Doty 
Julianna Miner 
Monica Bielanko 
Sierra Black 
Meredith Carroll 
Carolyn Castiglia 
Sunny Chanel 
Madeline Holler 
Wendy Michaels 
Rebecca Odes 
Danielle Smith 
Danielle Sullivan 
Katherine Stone 
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