WHEN car seat belts were still a novelty, putting one on could cause an awkward moment. “So you think I’m a bad driver?” passengers would be asked. The right answer was: “Oh, not you, but what about all those other clowns on the road?”
Cervical cancer, which kills 250,000 women a year and rising, is about to become a vaccine-preventable disease (see “Will cancer vaccine get to all women?”). HPV, the virus that causes it, is sexually transmitted, so girls should be vaccinated before they become sexually active – and probably boys too. But already there are predictable…
