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The Good News of the Day
Jun. 8th, 2006 05:15 pm... other than the capture of al-Zarqawi, which has been the only story on TV all day, as near as I can tell. Thank God for print and Internet news.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13206572/
FDA approves first vaccine for cervical cancer
Shots will protect girls as young as 9 against human papillomavirus
Updated: 1 hour, 56 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Women for the first time have a vaccine to protect them against cervical cancer.
( Read more... )
I'm grateful that this will be available to my daughters.
As far as the people worried that it's going to give girls a license to engage in premarital sex, I really, really doubt that fear of cervical cancer and HPV is the only thing keeping them from engaging. Due to the state of sex ed in many places these days, they may not even know about cervical cancer and its causes.
DV
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13206572/
FDA approves first vaccine for cervical cancer
Shots will protect girls as young as 9 against human papillomavirus
Updated: 1 hour, 56 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Women for the first time have a vaccine to protect them against cervical cancer.
( Read more... )
I'm grateful that this will be available to my daughters.
As far as the people worried that it's going to give girls a license to engage in premarital sex, I really, really doubt that fear of cervical cancer and HPV is the only thing keeping them from engaging. Due to the state of sex ed in many places these days, they may not even know about cervical cancer and its causes.
DV
