Many Physicians Not Strongly Recommending HPV Vaccine For Preteens, Study Reveals.

reports that a survey of nearly 600 physicians revealed that many pediatricians and family physicians “are not strongly recommending the cancer-preventing HPV vaccine to preteens and their parents.” The report found that “more than one-third” of those surveyed “don’t strongly recommend it for” kids 11 to 12 years old and instead more likely to “recommend vaccination and to give the shots to older kids and girls.” The findings were published in Pediatrics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/many-doctors-dont-urge-hpv-shots-for-preteens-study-says/2016/01/03/66da6928-b23e-11e5-8abc-d09392edc612_story.html