African-Americans or those with a family history of colon cancer should schedule their first colonoscopy at age 45. If your initial colonoscopy is clear and there are no polyps detected, you should schedule your next colonoscopy in 10 years.
âRemember, women are born with all the eggs they are ever going to have, and they donât make any new eggs during their lifetime. Women are born with approximately two million eggs in their ovaries, but about eleven thousand of them die every month prior to puberty.
For 60 years, doctors have believed women were born with all the eggs theyâll ever have. Now Harvard scientists are challenging that dogma, saying theyâve discovered the ovaries of young women harbor very rare stem cells capable of producing new eggs.