Today comes news that the FDA is updating the label of Gardasil, the vaccine against HPV, to include new information stating that the vaccine also protects women from two other forms of cancer.
Hopefully, this will encourage even more young women to receive the vaccine. This vaccine has garnered some controversy in the past, as some parents feel that their daughters are too young to be receiving the vaccine and are being forced to have the "sex talk" when their daughters are too young. However, this news reinforces the fact that this is an important vaccine for young women to receive, and if we can vaccinate women against HPV, less men will be contracting HPV as well, and we can go a long way to reduce the incidence of genital warts, improving our public health in this country.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment