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FDA approves HPV vaccine for older adults

By Kimberly Leonard
Published October 5, 2018 10:03pm ET
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FDA approves HPV vaccine for older adults
A doctor holds a vial of the human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil in Chicago. | (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the HPV vaccine Gardasil 9 for people between the ages of 27 to 45.

The vaccine protects against human papillomavirus, which can lead to cervical cancer in women and throat cancer in men.

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