New Vaccine For Cancer-Causing Virus Wins Unanimous Backing From College Officials
By Elizabeth F. Farrell, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 12, 2006

College health officials gave unanimous support on Tuesday to a proposal to recommend that young women receive a new vaccine that greatly reduces a woman's chance of getting cervical cancer. All nine members of the American College Health Association's Vaccine - Preventable Diseases Committee voted in favor of a recommendation that every woman between the ages of 11 and 26 receive Gardasil, a vaccine manufactured by the American drug firm Merck & Company. The American College Health Association, a nonprofit group, is generally accepted as the top authority in college health, and most college health centers follow the organization's recommendations.

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