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Study Finds Presumptive Announcements Beat Open Ended Conversations to Increase HPV Vaccination

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Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—December 5, 2016.  A decade after a vaccine to fight the cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV) was introduced in the United States, almost half of adolescents have yet to receive the first dose. A study in the January 2017 Pediatrics suggests an effective way to increase HPV vaccination rates is for healthcare providers to include it among those they recommend and assume children will receive as routine preventive care.

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