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University Health Services nears 1,000th course of HPV vaccine

Written by Josephine Wolff, Senior Writer
Published: Monday, May 5th, 2008
The first cancer vaccine was supposed to be unequivocally a good thing.

The Gardasil vaccine, touted as a triumph of modern medicine, protects against four strains of human papilloma virus (HPV) that commonly cause genital warts and cervical cancer.

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    7:48 p.m. on May 24th, 2008
    Posted by Anne

    You must have gotten your information from a bad source. NJ has not mandated HPV. Which makes me wonder about your other facts...

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    1:32 p.m. on May 6th, 2008
    Posted by Dan

    Not necessarily the best use of public health care resources. For another view, please see: http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20070802_164509_5908 which is an interview with epidemiologist Abby Lippman. This article contains a link to her paper in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

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