ATLANTA, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- One in four teenage girls received at least one dose of a relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer, U.S. health officials said.
LONDON, July 20 (UPI) -- Hundreds of thousands of teenage girls in Britain will receive a vaccination against the disease that can cause cervical cancer, a health official says.
LONDON, June 17 (UPI) -- Twelve-year-old girls in Britain are to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, it was reported Sunday.
ORLANDO, Fla., March 29 (UPI) -- The American Medical Women's Association has come out in support of HPV vaccination and testing.
BERLIN, March 28 (UPI) -- Teenage girls in Germany will be urged to get free cervical cancer vaccines under a new public health campaign.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Several U.S. medical experts say the cervical cancer drug, Gardasil, is being prescribed to the wrong age group for it to be effective.
NEW YORK, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A majority of Americans, 77 percent, say celebrities like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton have too much influence over young girls, a new poll found.
LONDON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- British health officials are being told that vaccinating all 12-year-old girls to prevent cervical cancer could save more than 700 lives a year.
GLASGOW, Scotland, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Controversy is brewing in Scotland over plans to administer to young girls a vaccine against a sexually-transmitted virus that can lead to cervical cancer.
LONDON, July 16 (UPI) -- Teenage girls in Britain who get pregnant are mostly doing it by choice, a new study found.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The latest U.S. national survey on alcohol and drug use finds that teenage girls are more likely than boys to smoke and abuse prescription drugs. They had already equaled boys in drinking and illegal drug abuse, The Washington Post reports.
LOS ANGELES, May 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. cable channel Lifetime announced Rob Lowe, Julia Ormond, Chris Carmack and Chelsea Hobbs as stars of its limited series "Beach Girls."
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., May 5 (UPI) -- Scientists hope to be able to vaccinate young girls against cervical cancer as soon as 2007, the London Daily Mail reported.
LONDON, March 21 (UPI) -- A study by British teen magazine Sugar and children's charity NSPCC suggested nearly one in five British girls had been hit by a boyfriend.
WILMINGTON, N.C., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- The WB network's "One Tree Hill" returns to the airwaves Tuesday night as the No. 1 show among teenage girls on all networks.
