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Boys should get HPV vaccine too: panel

NYDailyNews.com - Health - NY Daily News  Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:56

A government panel is recommending that young boys also get the controversial HPV shot. That's the vaccine now given to girls to prevent cervical cancer.


 

Boys should get HPV vaccine too, panel says

Headlines from the Associated Press  Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:40

ATLANTA (AP) -- A government panel wants young boys as well as girls to get the controversial HPV vaccine, in part to prevent them from spreading the sexually transmitted virus to girls....


 

Breast cancer: Get checked at 40, not 50

NYDailyNews.com - Health - NY Daily News  Wed, 07/20/2011 - 19:32

A leading women's health association firmly announced Wednesday that 40 is the age when women should start getting annual screenings for breast cancer, nearly two years after a controversial government panel called for women to wait until they are 50 for annual mammograms.


 

Panel recommends annual flu vaccinations for all

Headlines from the Associated Press  Wed, 02/24/2010 - 19:52

ATLANTA (AP) -- A government panel is now recommending that virtually all Americans get a flu shot each year, starting this fall....


 

Spotlight: New Mammogram Guidelines

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Thu, 11/19/2009 - 02:10

An independent government panel this week abandoned its long-standing recommendation that healthy women over 40 get a breast-cancer screen once every year or two years


 

Toll of Second Swine Flu Wave Could be High

MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Tue, 08/25/2009 - 15:42

Up to half the U.S. population could be infected with the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) virus this fall, with 30,000 to 90,000 deaths, mostly among children and young adults under a scenario released by a government panel of public health experts.