There has been plenty of talk about parents not wanting to give their teenage girls Gardasil, which is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics as protection against cervical cancer and genital warts caused by HPV, or the human papillomavirus. Up until now, most parents worried about the moral issue of giving their 11 and 12-year old daughters a vaccine that has to do with sex.

However, many parents are holding back with the vaccine, not because of moral issues, but because they fear what the drug’s side effects will be. The drug is, after all, new, and they …read more