Monday, October 18, 2010

blog 14 life the book and humanities

1. I will write about the adolescent stage and HPV

2.One relevant government agency that works in this area would be a doctor working for the department of health and human services. They would be in charge of giving the vaccines to women. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101013/hl_afp/healthcancersex.
This article talks about the dangers that someone can get without getting their HPV vaccination. It can lead to having cervical cancer. The current conflict with this is that although it is a very helpful vaccine for when you do have sex, parents are arguing that by giving their daughters this vaccination they are only encouraging their daughters to have sex because you wouldn't even need to get the shot if you didn't have sex.

3. Another concern to Americans is the cost of HPV, this is a economic issue and now these not many people have health care.
"The cost-effectiveness of HPV vaccination will depend on the duration of vaccine immunity and will be optimized by achieving high coverage in preadolescent girls"
link number 1:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18716299
link number 2: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.25211/abstract


human papillomavirus a vaccine for women
The stage of life is adolescent. The genetic technology that interests me is the way the risks for HPV-associated high-grade intra-epithelial neoplasia (IN) and cancer are increased.

One department that works in this topic is scientist. Their job is to research the effects of HPV and find out if it is harmful or helpful and what kind of risk it may have and the ages of women who should use it for ex. it is used for females from 9-26 years old.
http://cbs4.com/iteam/Gardisil.Girls.Vaccine.2.718592.html
In this article Dr.Harper who has dedicated 2 years of researching HPV speaks out against is in some way. Here is a quote from the article.
"Dr. Harper says she believes the vaccine is safe but cautions that time is needed to study potential side effects in larger numbers of young girls before any consideration should be given to mandating such a vaccine. "


HPV is a vaccine that is helpful yet may come with side effects that people should be aware of even though the age starts from being as young as 12 perhaps girls should wait until of older year of age.
Link one: bio http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/203188.php
Link two: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16672559

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