Current vaccine guidelines for HPV don’t recommend restarting the series, so hopefully other women won’t have to go through what you went through. The current dosing schedule is 2 doses if started before age 15, and 3 doses if started after age 15. The number of catch-up vaccines is a function of when the vaccination…

Probably correct — it’s a statistical game. Studies looking at HPV vaccine effectiveness failed to show a benefit for women between ages 27 and 45. There are *some* women it helped, but in general for *all* women we failed to show benefit. It’s the exact opposite when we look younger, as the younger the HPV vaccine is…

It is still effective, no matter how long it was between your doses. No need to worry!

It depends on your age at the time of the first vaccination. If you were under 15, you only need two doses. If you were over 15, you need a 3rd dose. If you are over 26 now, you don’t need any more doses.

So, to defend your mom a little bit here, the HPV vaccination Gardisil is indicated up to age 26. The reason is that studies failed to show it had any benefit for women between 27 and 45. That doesn’t mean it might not help *a woman*, but we just can’t prove it will help most women. Your mom was just following the…

Definitely push the issue, as the HPV vaccine is more effective the younger it’s given. It’s for that reason the vaccine schedule was changed and those under 15 need only 2 doses of the vaccine, while those over 15 need 3 doses. Tell your pediatrician you want it and don’t want to wait!

There is some surprisingly good content on VICELAND (like Balls Deep)... Followed by four hours of mind numbing programming like skateboarders seeing who can not land a jump the best.

Unrelated, but I’ve been using Prime Photos as an automatic backup for a while now. Google Photos is my main backup, but I have the Prime Photos app on the phone and it automatically backs up it’s own copy. The problem is now anyone can say “Alexa, show my my Prime Photos” and my entire photo gallery is available to…

Unfortunately, you are 100% correct

I grew up in Marion. It’s such a shitbox that there are not one but *two* state prisons thre.

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HPV at age 1? It’s recommended at age 11, but can be given as early as age 9.

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While there could be an impact, “most of the resistance problem in humans has arisen from human use” (https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkg483)

This is the reason why we try to discourage inappropriate antibiotic use. Inappropriate includes most cases of sinusitis and bronchitis — they are almost always viral and will resolve on their own. Overusing antibiotics are a problem, because it encourages resistance. More here: http://www.choosingwisely.org/resources/…

Do what I’ve done: swear off cable/broadcast news and watch The Weather Channel instead. And reruns of NYPD Blue. Boom! Problem solved.

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And Austin Carr is my white girl wasted spirit animal.

I’ll poorly quote Atul Gawande, MD: “The most powerful tool in medicine is the doctor-patient relationship.” Gadgets like these — and they are gadgets, nothing else — do nothing to help people be healthier. They give data points, for sure. But does that make people healthier? No. You know what does? It’s the boring…