Federal advisers back cervical cancer vaccine

GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- A federal advisory panel voted unanimously yesterday to recommend approval of the world's first vaccine against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer and said girls as young as 9 years old can be inoculated. (Full article: 683 words)

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