Doctors not strongly encouraging HPV vaccine to girls of certain age
Monday, August 2, 2010 - 13:42
in Health & Medicine
The vast majority of pediatricians and family physicians nationally are offering the human papillomavirus (also called HPV) vaccine, though fewer physicians are strongly encouraging it for 11- to 12-year-old girls as recommended by national guidelines, according to a survey in the September issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.