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Safe and Effective Vaccine That Prevents Many Kinds of Cancer Continues to Be Underused

The number of girls and boys aged 13 to 17 years receiving human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine remains unacceptably low despite a slight increase in vaccination coverage since 2012.

Evidence of Football Brain Injury Risk Continues to Grow

Parents of America have one more reason to keep their kids off the football field. In recent years, the high incidence of football concussions has been linked to ongoing brain deterioration, and now a new study has revealed that the dangers of playing football may be even worse. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the … Continue reading Evidence of Football Brain Injury Risk Continues to Grow

Annual Report to the Nation: Overall cancer mortality continues to decline

The latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer finds that, for all cancer sites combined, cancer death rates continued to decline in men, women, and children in the United States from 1999 to 2016.