INTRODUCTION Progressive condylar resorption has been described for many years. Because condylar resorption favors women over men, many have thought that a prominent systemic factor for the pathogenesis of this disease might be related to sex hormones. METHODS Over a 3-year period, 27 women without autoimmune disease came to our office for orthognathic surgical correction of their skeletal de...

Introduction: Granulomatous lobular mastitis (GLM) is an inflammatory disease of the breast, which can mimic breast cancer in clinical and radiological findings. We conducted the present study in order to determine the diagnostic and other important aspects of this disease Methods: In this study, we reviewed the records of 38 patients with GLM in order to describe the clinical, imaging, laborat...

Background: In spite of the high knowledge, rate contraceptive methods use is not so satisfactory in India. The main objective health and family welfare programme to reduce attitude practice gap among people different societies, castes, religions regions. study find association between socio-demographic factors acceptance planning women belong scheduled caste community which one backward commun...

BACKGROUND The search for biologic endpoints and biomarkers in the study of breast cancer risk assessment and risk reduction strategies has led to an interest in obtaining cytologic information and other biomarkers from nipple aspirate fluid (NAF). METHODS This descriptive study examined factors associated with an increased ability to obtain NAF in a cohort of 3043 women between the ages of 1...

The aim of this review is to define the role of the combined dienogest (DNG)/estradiol valerate (E2V) contraceptive pill, in terms of biochemistry, metabolic and pharmacological effects and clinical application as well. E2V is the esterified form of 17β-estradiol (E2), while dienogest is a fourth-generation progestin with a partial antiandrogenic effect. The cycle stability is achieved with 2 t...

“The future is not likely to be dull”. This statement, made by the Family Planning Association (now known as fpa) in 19601 when it launched the first UK trial of the oral contraceptive pill, proved to be more than accurate! Four decades on from the introduction of ‘the Pill’ in 1961 (1960 in the US), history graphically illustrates how oral contraception not only revolutionised the field of bir...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the influence of breast feeding, use of the oral contraceptive pill (OCP), and parity on rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS One hundred and seventy six women with RA were compared with 145 control subjects; all had at least one child. RA patients were classified as having severe (n = 82) or mild disease (n = 89) according to clinical joint evaluation, radiological sco...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis is a rare progressive disease of unknown aetiology affecting premenopausal women. Since the oral contraceptive pill has been implicated in its pathogenesis, a case control study was carried out to determine whether women with the disease were more likely to have taken the oral contraceptive pill, and whether the disease was associated with other con...

The oral contraceptive chlormadinone acetate has been given for eight months to a woman who had developed jaundice during four pregnancies, and twice while taking a combined contraceptive pill. No side-effects or changes in liver function were observed. This is further evidence that progestogens used for contraception, and in particular those derived from hydroxyprogesterone, are less hepatotox...