AIM To describe the pattern of use of the Internet as a source of health information by participants of antenatal classes. Background.  There is a lack of information about the frequency of Internet use amongst expectant mothers and fathers who attend antenatal classes. DESIGN A cross-sectional descriptive study. METHODS Women (n = 114) and men (n = 21) were recruited. Data were collected a...

Standard methods of monitoring the fetus and maternal health during labor are cardiotocogram, tocography, ultrasound and magnetocardiograpghy. These methods have some limitations in real time continuous monitoring and cause some degree of inconvenience to the patient and demand special attendance of the obstetrician also these methods cannot be used for continuous monitoring of the fetal well b...

This case report refers to a 53-year-old female patient who deliberately misinformed the staff of the in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinic using counterfeit documents concerning her real age and underwent the IVF procedure. During the pregnancy it was discovered accidentally that the patient was not telling the whole truth about her real age. In the 34(th) week of pregnancy two healthy twins hav...

Background The current research to the best of my knowledge is the first to compare the pregnancy outcome between ultrasound-guided tubal recanalization (UGTR) using a special fallopian tubal catheter, and office-based micrhysteroscopic ostial dilatation (MHOD) using the same tubal catherter in infertile women with previously diagnosed bilateral proximal tubal obstruction (PTO). MaterialsAndMet...

Over the past few years the Internet has become an essential business platform by aiding trading, distribution and sales between organisations, consumers, and even between consumers. This has brought ecommerce to an entirely new level which raised some issues in websites usability and the human-computer interaction. Therefore, the objectives of this paper are to identify and analyse the extent ...

Extant research on websites success has paid insufficient attention to the success of permission-based email marketing (PEM) websites. In order to bridge this knowledge gap, the contribution of this study lies in synthesizing information management/e-commerce, media/communication, as well as customer/marketing research to propose a PEM websites success model consisting of antecedent (i.e., func...