Less than 15 percent of the Coachella Valley students required to get a whooping cough booster shot have received the vaccine, school district officials report. “It’s going to be a mess if they all show up in July,” said Denise Magee, director of Student Support Services for Desert Sands Unified School District. A new law […]
Fight against HPV is on
By: Tim Switzer 22 October 2010 Nearly two-thirds of eligible school-aged girls in Saskatchewan are being vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV) in an effort to lower rates of cervical cancer. Since the vaccination program was launched in schools at the start of the 2008-09 school year, approximately 61 per cent of girls in Grade […]
Health bosses move to boost cancer jabs
By: Jessica Daly 28 October 2010 Health officials are rethinking how to promote jabs against cervical cancer after the slow take up of a national vaccination programme among young women. Switzerland rolled out a programme in 2008 to vaccinate girls and young women aged 11 to 19 against the human papilloma virus, or […]
