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Health Canada approves more efficacious HPV vaccine. Report that TorStar!
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 18, 2015 Source: Health Canada approves new, more potent HPV vaccine
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Torstar made same antivax mistake akin tio media bandwagon measles hoax in past – unforgivable use of anecdote over facts
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 13, 2015 Source: Science shows HPV vaccine has no dark side Reference: Public editor criticizes the Star’s Gardasil story
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No serious adverse effects seen with HPV vaccine
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 15, 2013 [display_podcast] Source: No Serious Adverse Reactions to HPV Vaccination Reference: Lisen Arnheim-Dahlström, Björn Pasternak, Henrik Svanström, Pär Sparén, and Anders Hviid. Autoimmune, neurologic, and venous thromboembolic adverse events following administration of a quadrivalent HPV-vaccine to adolescent girls: a cohort study in Denmark and Sweden. British Medical Journal, October 2013
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Human papilloma virus vaccination recommendations
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) recommended this week that all Canadian girls and women aged 9 to 26 should be routinely vaccinated to protect them against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), the primary cause of cervical cancer. The vaccine is only the second anti-cancer vaccine developed, the other being the Hepatitis B vaccine. What…