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...there was much suspicion that many of the women in the alleged harem, still in their 20s, had been troubled teenagers who originally went to Ratzon for therapy. In June of 2009, a 24-year-old woman, the daughter of one of Ratzon's "wives," filed a complaint against him with the Tel Aviv police. The mother, who was arrested along with Ratzon, is suspected of introducing her biological daughter, then 14, to the healer for purposes of sex; she is now facing charges of encouraging and failing to report underage sex. Using Clause 375a of a new Israeli...
...happen? Why would you put off the potential that you could do it at your healthiest time in life? And why would you put off the search for the correct partner in which to collaborate on the most important thing in life? That means when you're in your 20s, look for a partner. Look around. Don't just assume that when you're 30, 35 or 40 that you are going to just snap your fingers and find that person. (See the top 10 magazine covers...
...guidelines issued Friday, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recommended that adolescent girls wait until age 21 to get their first Pap smear. The College also recommended less frequent screening for older women: every two years for women in their 20s instead of yearly, and every three years for women 30 and older. Previously, the ACOG - along with other national groups, including the American Cancer Society and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (or USPSTF, the same group that revised its mammography screening advice) - had advised girls to begin yearly Pap tests within three years of their first...
Cervical cancer is slow growing - giving doctors time to find it - and studies show that among women in their 20s, the risk of developing cervical cancer does not increase by reducing the frequency of Pap tests to every two years. Although the HPV infection rate is high among sexually active teens and young adults, the virus is typically cleared by the woman's immune system within a year or two of infection. Few cases of HPV infection lead to cancer; when they do, the cancer may develop up to 10 to 20 years after exposure to the virus...
...early 20s Thorne developed chronic cholinergic urticaria, a condition that makes him allergic even to the heat generated by his own body. "When I became disabled, I didn't become a better person. I just became a different person," he says. He shares with the disabled cast a desire to get away from the archetypes of disability that populate film and television. The castoffs aren't noble minds trapped in unusual bodies. Indeed, they soon reveal their true colors by endlessly complaining, shirking responsibility and squabbling with one another...