Doctors may be inadvertently discouraging some parents from having their preteens vaccinated against human papillomavirus, according to a new study, which suggests clinicians often don’t recommend the vaccine strongly enough.
Many pediatricians and family physicians -- who deliver the bulk of HPV vaccines -- don’t appear to be using the same matter-of-fact approaches as they do when they urge parents to vaccinate their adolescents against meningococcal disease or to get tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis booster shots, it said.
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