Angiotensin II (ANG) promotes cell proliferation and angiogenesis as well as being a potent vasoconstrictor. The cellular distribution of renin, ANG and its receptors in the endometrium has yielded useful information about the possible role of the renin-angiotensin system in cyclic menstruation. In the early proliferative phase, intense ANG-like immunostaining was detected in stroma and glandul...

IKE THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FOLLOWING THE SPRING SNOW MELT, THE FAMILY landscape is being flooded with new technologies having to do with baby making or not making. The explosion of progress in reproductive technologies is creating choice in a dimension of life we previously consigned to destiny, namely, procreating children. Fertile women can stop baby making with Norplant, RU486, or abortion. I...

I read the letter on ‘Early implant removal: an ethical dilemma’ by Bari et al. in the January 2013 issue of the Journal with interest, a great feeling of disappointment and I shared the feelings of alarm with the authors. The piece reported a 29-year-old woman who was so dissatisfied with her subdermal implant that she attempted removal herself without anaesthetic and she broke the device. She...

PURPOSE To determine whether initiation of on-site dispensing of hormonal contraceptives (oral contraceptive pill, Depo-provera, and Norplant) in six urban school-based health centers reduced time to initial selection, and increased their consistent use among sexually active females. METHODS Participants were sexually active females who received family planning care in a school year before (1...

Background. Women's preferences for various contraceptive methods attribute vary according to the type of relations and other aspects of their life. The discrepancy between fertility preferences and contraceptive practice is regarded as an indicator of unmet demand for family planning. Objective. To assess modern contraceptive methods preference and its determinant factors among women of reprod...