Keep these facts in mind: 1  Genital HPV infections are very common, affecting up to 80 percent of women by the age of 50. 2  HPV by itself is not a disease. 3  Most infections go away or are suppressed by the body, without causing any symptoms or health effects.
Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel laureate in literature, who was often called the greatest Irish poet since Yeats, died on Friday in Dublin. He was 74. His publisher, Faber & Faber, announced the death. The Irish poet Paul Muldoon, a longtime friend, said that Mr. Heaney was hospitalized after a fall on Thursday.
Seamus, age 10, and his father in Drumcliff, County Sligo, where W.B. Yeats is buried. My name is Seamus, but I don't celebrate St. Patrick's Day. That may sound incongruous for a dual citizen of the U.S. and Ireland whose grandfather founded the Irish American Cultural Institute.