A new study has revealed that a growing number of US parents oppose doctors' recommendations to vaccinate teenage girls against human papillomavirus (HPV). Parents cited reasons such as believing their child was too young or not sexually active, concerns about safety and side effects, or lack of knowledge about the vaccine, said the study in the journal Pediatrics. In 2008, 40 percent of parents surveyed said they did not want the HPV vaccine for their ...
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Researchers are currently developing a new vaccine to treat cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, which is the leading infectious cause of congenital birth defects, affecting one in every 750 children born who develop permanent disabilities such as brain damage or hearing loss. Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy (and) Immunology and Cardiff University in Wales (UK) have discovered a previously unknown cellular mechanism that could prove critical in creating ...
