Weekly News Roundup 12.19.16

The Partnership for Male Youth

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Weekly News Roundup

December 19, 2016

Dennis J. Barbour, JD, Editor

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

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CDC: Two-Dose Regimen of HPV Vaccine Sufficient Up to Age 15

Children aged 9 to 14 years can now receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine on a two-dose schedule, rather than a three-dose one, according to updated recommendations issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The recommendations are based on the findings of a year-long review of new clinical trial data conducted by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The data show that among girls and boys in this age range, immunogenicity associated with the two-dose regimen was not inferior to, and in some cases was superior to, that seen with the three-dose regimen.

Medscape, December 15, 2016

STC Poses the Question - The HPV Vaccine To Prevent Cancers In Men: How Are We Doing?

How are we doing in getting our young people vaccinated? STC recently reviewed vaccination rates for young males and females (9-18 years old). Using data from a number of state public health departments (with a sample size of over 3 million cases) revealed a completion rate for all three doses of 15.5% for girls and just 11% for boys.

Digital Journal, December 15, 2016

What Parents of Early-Teen Boys Need to Know

A glance into any middle-school classroom tells the tale: Boys in braces, papers spilling out of their backpacks, watch in silence as girls 6 inches taller, their homework all done, wave their hands in the air to give answers. The maturity gap between boys and girls looms largest in the early-teen years. New research on adolescent development reveals exactly which skills develop more slowly in boys after they enter puberty, and where they surpass their female classmates. Boys do catch up. Research shows boys' and girls' performance on many tasks tends to converge around age 15. But early adolescence is a critical stage when children are developing a sense of personal identity and social status. The research lends insight into the kind of support early-teen boys may need.

Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2016

More are positive about HPV vaccine on Twitter than not, Drexel study finds

"In our sample, I expected to see a large number of negative tweets based on traditional news coverage of the topic and because HPV can be portrayed as controversial because it brings together the fields of sexually transmitted infections, immunizations and cancer prevention," Massey said. "But that wasn't the case on Twitter, we found." A vocal portion of the population has been lashing out -- especially online -- against the immunization due to perceived side effects. Massey's study sought to quantify how much content that negative population might be posting online. And through analyzing nearly 200,000 English-language tweets between the summers of 2014 and 2015, Massey and his team found that the most popular sentiment attached to tweets about the HPV vaccine were positive. Almost 39 percent of tweets gathered were classified as positive, while negative sentiments were detected in just a little more than 25 percent of the tweets analyzed.

Eureka Alert, December 12, 2016

The Weekly News Roundup is produced by The Partnership for Male Youth and is released every Monday.

For more information contact Dennis J. Barbour, JD. News Roundup editor and President/CEO of the Partnership, at dbarbour@partnershipformaleyouth.org.