Merck Suspends Lobbying for Vaccine

TRENTON, N.J. -- In a Feb. 20 story about Merck & Co. ending a campaign to require schoolgirls to get its new cervical cancer vaccine, The Associated Press incorrectly named a group concerned about the lobbying efforts. It is the American Academy of Family Physicians, not the American Academy of...
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LINDA A. JOHNSON

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