A mysterious organ that’s most active in childhood might play a previously underappreciated role in adults.
In a study of almost 2,300 adults who underwent chest surgery, removing the thymus gland was associated with higher rates of death and of cancer within the next few years, researchers report in the Aug. 3 New England Journal of Medicine. The discovery pushes back on a long-held belief that the immune system organ is somewhat expendable in adulthood.
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Girls are hitting puberty younger than ever, thrusting them prematurely into a new world of wild mood swings, physical discomfort, and self-doubt.
The phenomenon is called precocious puberty, which is being detected more and more in the Us. Decades of research point to a trending decline in the age of puberty onset.
In dozens of countries, the age of puberty in girls has dropped by about three months per decade since the 1970s. Now, it is not out of the
A woman who is fundraising for surgery to make her face more feminine has revealed how her parents told her ‘God intended her to be a boy’ while experts ‘tried to talk her out of being transgender.’
Elaine O’Neill, 35, who lives in Glasgow, told FEMAIL she ‘always knew she was a girl from a young age’ and sought treatment on the NHS from the age of 14.
However she claims she was met with judgement by doctors, who told
“Leptin is not so much the trigger for puberty as it’s permissive,” Paul Kaplowitz, a professor emeritus of pediatrics in the division of endocrinology at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., told me. “An adequate level of fat tissue is a requirement for puberty to progress. But we don’t know for sure if fat is the only reason why girls in the twenty-first century are maturing earlier than girls in the latter part of the twentieth century. Obesity is a
[soft inspirational music]
[orchestral music]
[Person] Es fühlt sich an, als wäre ich in meinem eigenen Körper, es fühlt sich an…
Ich meine, ich denke, man muss es erst beschreiben
wie die Abwesenheit, ist es, wo Sie sich fühlen
Du bist nicht in deinem eigenen Körper
so lange, dass das Gefühl, wie du bist, so etwas Neues ist.
[orchestral music continues]
[Man] Weißt du, ich wusste, dass Haare wachsen würden.
Ich habe keine Ahnung, warum wir Arschhaare haben,
das ergibt
