UNLABELLED Thyroid dysfunction and the presence of thyroid antibodies increase the risk of infertility and miscarriage. The aim of the present study was to assess if patients with autoimmune thyroid disease undergoing assisted reproduction technologies (ART) are afflicted by poor pregnancy and/or delivery rate and if the outcome is conditioned by pre-ART thyroid status. The study was retrospect...

This article examines the treatment of prostitution in several genres of Ottoman legal writing—manuals and commentaries of Islamic jurisprudence, fatwās (legal opinions) and ḳānūnnāmes (Sultanic legislation)—and looks at how prostitution was dealt with in practice by the empire’s sharīʿa courts and by its provincial executive authorities. The article uses prostitution as a case study to investi...

AIM To identify the prevalence and predictors of abnormal renal function among HIV-positive Chinese patients prior to antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and to evaluate subsequent changes in renal function after ART exposure. METHODS We conducted a nationwide cohort study of subjects who enrolled in the national Chinese ART program from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012. We estimated ...

Au début du xxe siècle, les communautés musulmanes d’Afrique Nord ont réagi à l’expansion impériale européenne de diverses manières. Comme le démontre cet article, la période entre l’invasion Maroc (1907) et guerre italo-turque (1911-1912) a vu une montée nouveaux réseaux politiques paramilitaires traversant frontières impériales. Ces réseaux, créés partir relations religieuses intellectuelles ...

BACKGROUND Increasing numbers of HIV-infected patients in sub-Saharan Africa are exposed to antiretroviral therapy (ART), but there are few data on lipid changes on first-line ART, and even fewer on second-line. METHODS DART was a randomized trial comparing monitoring strategies in Ugandan/Zimbabwean adults initiating first-line ART and switching to second-line at clinical/immunological failu...