a long way is ahead of prediction of menopause!

A Long Way Is Ahead of Prediction of Menopause!

Menopause, an important reproductive milestone, is associated with complete cessation of fertility. There is considerable individual variation in the age of onset of menopause; its average is 51 years but varies from 40 to 60 years and about 10% of women reach menopause by the age of 45 years (1). Over the past two decades, precise prediction of age at menopause for individual women has attract...

compliance with standard precautions: a long way ahead

background: to find out the knowledge, attitude and compliance with standard precautions among doctors working in a terti­ary care hospital. methods: the cross sectional study was conducted during october 2006 in the form of self reporting questionnaire. the question­naire included question about duration of clinical experience, hepatitis b virus vaccination and its antibody titer, knowl­edge a...

A long way ahead: understanding and engineering plant metal accumulation.

Some plants can hyperaccumulate metal ions that are toxic to virtually all other organisms at low dosages. This trait could be used to clean up metal-contaminated soils. Moreover, the accumulation of heavy metals by plants determines both the micronutrient content and the toxic metal content of our food. Complex interactions of transport and chelating activities control the rates of metal uptak...

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Lithuania - Still a long way ahead.

Despite the recent advances in the diagnosis of tuberculosis, treatment of the disease, for the most part, remains the same as it was half a century ago. In recent years only two new anti-tuberculosis drugs have been approved by the European Medicines Agency and Food and Drug Administration. Though the prevalence of this disease is slowly decreasing all over Europe, new challenges appear. One o...

Primary care psychiatry in Pakistan--a long way ahead.

Is esophageal atresia a natural way of fasting?