Tuesday, August 27, 2002

Women Seek Choices When Fibroid Tumors Strike. Fibroids are the most common tumor in women's reproductive tracts. In the past, few alternatives to removing the uterus were available. Now a new procedure leaves the uterus intact. By Linda Villarosa. [New York Times: Science] 9:09:27 AM       Media images of 'hunks' spur body anxieties in men [Reuters Health eLine] I've pretty much had that anxiety from the 6th grade, when Nicky Amico starts looking hunkier than any Baywatch lifeguard, and I look like a stick figure. I skinny stick figure. He's got Delilah Bonila as a girlfriend. My Valentine (who never really noticed me anyway), gone for a man while me still a boy in too many ways. <sigh> Old wounds die slowly. In another 40 years I should get over it (or my senile mind will come up with another story <wink>. 9:08:18 AM       Sitcoms, videos make even fifth-graders feel fat [Reuters Health eLine] 9:03:38 AM       Helen Keller. "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." 8:53:33 AM

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