Japan's health ministry decided Thursday to provide free vaccines against cervical cancer to women who missed a chance to get shots after the government, in a decision since reversed, stopped actively promoting inoculation in 2013 following reports of adverse reactions.The free vaccines against the human papillomavirus which causes cervical cancer will be provided to women born between April 1997 and March 2006 over three years from next April.The measure follows the ministry's decision in November to resume in April the active promotion of the free inoculation program targeting schoolgirls…READ FULL ARTICLE
