Archive for February 16th, 2006
Causes of Malignant Mesothelioma
Thursday, February 16th, 2006A risk factor is anything that increases a person’s chance of getting a disease such as cancer. Different cancers have different risk factors. Some risk factors, such as smoking, can be controlled. Others, like a person’s age or family history, can’t be changed. But having a risk factor, or even several, doesn’t mean that a [...]
Struggles
Thursday, February 16th, 2006It isn’t for the moment you are stuck
that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb
back to sanity and faith and security.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It’s not just major challenges that require courage. Even the minor skirmishes with life demand some deep breaths, perhaps hushed prayers, and lots of hope.
We’d glide more easily through every [...]
Adolescence II – Onset of Menstruation
Thursday, February 16th, 2006By the time of birth, fluid had appeared in many of the egg cells, whihc were then called egg follicles. The first of the hormones which affects the egg cells is called the follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), because it stimulates the growth of some of the follicles. At first only a very few follicls grow, and [...]
