Who is the Gardasil shot really for?

  Picture this: a world without sexually transmitted disease. Now open your eyes, step back into reality. The biggest issue facing the Human Papillomavirus shot is that women are being safe and men are not. Women are taking the precautions and receiving the shot and men who are the transmitters of the disease are not….

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Pediatricians and the pushback against vaccinations

By GABRIELLA VUKELIC Arizona Sonora News Service There are a lot of reasons that medical professionals hear from parents who decline to have their children vaccinated. Nicole Bencs, a clinical instructor and nurse practitioner at the University of Arizona’s College of Nursing, discussed her views on skeptical parents: “I’ve heard so many times that parents don’t vaccinate…

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