Local doctors embrace new HPV vaccine recommendation

Despite its proven ability to help protect against cervical and other cancers, families and even some doctors have been slow to embrace the HPV vaccine. So local advocates cheered this week when a government panel said kids younger than 15 need just two shots — down from three — to develop immunity to the most worrisome strains of human papillomavirus. "I think this is going to make my patients more receptive," said Dr. Natalie Dick, a pediatrician and sports-medicine physician with