OBJECTIVE To determine whether menstrual cups are a viable alternative to tampons. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING Prince George, Victoria, and Vancouver, BC. PARTICIPANTS A total of 110 women aged 19 to 40 years who had previously used tampons as their main method of menstrual management. INTERVENTION Participants were randomized into 2 groups, a tampon group and a menstrua...

abstract anti-nociceptive activity of aerial parts of phytolacca americana were investigated, using the hot plate method in mice. results of the present study showed that the aqueous methanolic extract of aerial parts of p. americana produced a statistically significant increase in pain threshold after 30 min, in comparison with the control, at adose of 190 mg kg-1 (p<0.001). the activity was c...

BACKGROUND Acetabular cementation during total hip arthroplasty is considered difficult mainly due to the appearance and anatomy of the acetabulum. Improved cementation technique has been shown to improve the longevity of acetabular components. METHOD We designed a ceramic model to investigate the effect of varying the initial cement pressurization and cup introduction times on the depth of c...

In this paper, the finite element method is employed in conjunction with the abductive network to predict the optimum blank contour of elliptic cylindrical cup with ear-less in deep drawing. The earring behavior of the formed cup is caused primarily by planar anisotropy in the sheet. Different cup heights combined with various aspect ratios of the elliptic cylindrical cup are taken into account...

In order to have antibacterial, analgesic and anti-inflammatory activity in the same molecule, 4-[1-oxo-3- (substituted aryl)-2-propenyl]-3-(4-chlorophenyl) sydnones were synthesized by condensing 4-acetyl-3-(4-chlorophenyl)sydnone with various substituted aryl aldehydes and characterized by spectral studies; 4-acetyl-3-(4-chlorophenyl)sydnone itself, was prepared by acetylation of 3-(4-chlorop...

the aim of the present research was focused on the antibacterial, preliminary phytochemical and pharmacognostical properties of vicoa indica (l.)dc. via in vitro approach. the aqueous and organic solvent (hexane, chloroform and methanol) extracts from the leaves of vicoa indica (asteraceae) were tested against escherichia coli, klebsiella pneumoniae, salmonella typhi, vibrio parahaemolyticus, v...

background : lactobacilli are the well known friendly bacteria for their probiotic activities against pathogens. the inhibitory activity of different strains of lactobacilli either obtained as commercial products or isolated from human feces was investigated against the clinical isolates of pseudomonas aeruginosa. the isolates were selected as the most resistant strains when challenged with ant...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to report the long-term outcome and the failure mechanism of cementless total hip arthroplasty (THA) using hydroxyapatite (HA)-coated acetabular cup. MATERIALS AND METHODS From January 1992 to May 1994, a total of 123 consecutive cementless primary THAs were performed using a HA-coated acetabular cup with metal-on-polyethylene articulation. We retrospectively...