Matthew Davis

By: Karen Rowan, MyHealthNewsDaily Managing Editor Published: 03/18/2013 02:38 PM EDT on MyHealthNewsDaily Two-thirds of parents say they don't always follow the advice they get from their child's doctor, according to a new poll. The findings showed that 56 percent of parents said they follow the advice they’re given most of the time, while 13 percent said they follow it only occasionally, according to the findings from the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospit...

Vaccinating girls against the sexually-transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) does not make them more likely to have sex, according to a new study. The findings are the latest in a string of research showing that vaccination does not encourage promiscuity, the authors say, and should go a long way in extinguishing lingering concerns about "disinhibition" among pre-teenage girls who receive the vaccine. Study co-author Robert Bednarczyk, a clinical investigator with the Kaiser Per...