PURPOSE OF REVIEW The purpose of this review is to assess the evidence and role of complementary and alternative medicine in obstetrics and gynaecology. There is increasing patient interest and use of complementary and alternative medicine therapies and there is thus a need for health practitioners to be appropriately informed of different complementary therapies. RECENT FINDINGS This article...

Corrigendum to “Ethical language and decision-making for prenatally diagnosed lethal malformations” [Semin Fetal Neonatal Med 19 (5) (2014) 306e311] Dominic Wilkinson a, c, , Lachlan de Crespigny , Vicki Xafis c a Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK b Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Blairgowrie, Vi...

Václav Chudáček, Jiří Spilka, Michal Huptych, George Georgoulas, Petr Janků, Michal Koucký, Chrysostomos Stylios, Lenka Lhotská 1 dept. of Cybernetics CTU in Prague, 2 dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology FN Brno, 3 dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 1.LF CUNI in Prague 4 Dept of Computer Applications in Finance and Management, TEl of Ionian Islands, Lefkas 5 Technological Institute of Epirus, ...

Stem cells isolated from menstrual fl uid have mesenchymal stem cell like properties and have multilineage differentiation capacity. Menstrual fl uid has ease of access in collection and repeated sampling is possible in a noninvasive manner. Also, rapid culture of these is possible in numbers that are suffi cient for therapeutic use. They are, hence, looked upon as a novel innovation and are fi...

Objective: Evaluation of pelvic organs by laparoscopy in infertile patient. Background: Despite of absence of any known risk factor for infertility various studies indicate that there may be abnormalities in pelvic organ in about two-third of the cases, as evidenced by laparoscopic study. Present study was done to have an idea about the problem in a group of patients reporting to specialised ce...

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY To assess the diabetes-related knowledge of medical and nursing house staff with particular focus on inpatient diabetes management and insulin therapy. METHODS In a cross-sectional design, diabetes-related knowledge among physicians, graduate nurses, medical students and student nurses of the departments of internal medicine, surgery and gynaecology was assessed using a ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection and risk factors in women attending family planning, gynaecology, and sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics in Jamaica. METHODS Endocervical specimens from 645 women including 238 family planning, 170 gynaecology, and 237 STD clinic attendees were examined for C trachomatis using a direct fluorescence assay ...

A two-years (2003-2005) fungal environmental surveillance was carried out in three departments of a hospital in Campania region (Surgery, Intensive Care Unit, Obstetrics and Gynaecology). Four operating theatres rooms and their relative areas of service and support, 4 patient rooms of intensive care unit, 1 delivery room, 1 labour room and 1 nursery of Obstetrics and Gynaecology were checked. A...

From the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway and Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway (A.C.S., K.M.); Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (C.W.G.R), Radcliffe Department of Medicine (P.L.), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Department of Maternal Medicine, Institute for Women’s Health, University College Lo...

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