Objective: To determine which socio-demographic factors influence the inter-conception interval in southern Jordan. Methods: A cross sectional study on a sample of 307 Jordanian women was performed. All women were interviewed using several questionnaires providing information on the socio-demographic characteristics, obstetric history and other health related data. Anthropometric measurements a...

Multiple sclerosis is the most common neurological disease of young adults that causes major disability. In Romania, it is estimated that this disease has a prevalence of 35-40 per 100,000 inhabitants. It is a disease that begins at the age of 20-40 years and is 2-3 times more common in women than in men. More than half of patients with MS develop the disease in their fertile period of life; th...

BACKGROUND Industrial food animal production employs many of the same antibiotics or classes of antibiotics that are used in human medicine. These drugs can be administered to food animals in the form of free-choice medicated feeds (FCMF), where animals choose how much feed to consume. Routine administration of these drugs to livestock selects for microorganisms that are resistant to medication...

Although breast feeding is not an absolutely reliable method of contraception yet its birth spacing effect is of great importance in communities where the prevalence of alternative contraception is too low. It is well recognized that breast feeding affects the fertility of women by delaying resumption of menses. The extent to which duration of breast feeding effects the duration of Postparturm ...

For most of man's existence, natural checks on fertility ensured that the numbers of the population more or less matched the resources available. It is only in the last few generations that man has so dominated the natural environment that the numbers of people in the world have increased exponentially, unchecked by natural disasters such as disease and starvation. Coincidental with extended li...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Parental control over feeding has been linked to child overweight. Parental control behaviours have been assumed to be exogenous to the child, but emerging evidence suggests they are also child-responsive. This study tests the hypothesis that parental control in early infancy is responsive to infant appetite and weight. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Participants were 1920 moth...

Contraceptive implants provide long-acting, highly effective reversible contraception. The etonogestrel implant (ENG implant) is a single rod implant that offers three years of efficacy. The ENG implant was designed to provide contraceptive efficacy by inhibiting ovulation and Pearl Index scores reported for this method are similar to other long-acting reversible contraception as well as simila...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the potential for Lactational Amenorrhoea Method (LAM) and passive LAM among women with children below 6 months in the 2003 Egypt Demographic Health Survey (2003 EDHS), to assess the determinants of amenorrhea, and to examine the association of exclusive breastfeeding and amenorrhea with using modern contraceptive methods among nursing mothers of children below 2 years, a...

Contraceptive implants provide long-acting, highly effective reversible contraception. Currently, the only subdermal implant available to women in the United States is the single rod etonogestrel implant, Implanon (N.V. Organon, Oss, the Netherlands) approved by the Food and Drug Administration in July 2006. Implanon is currently approved for 3 years of use, provides excellent efficacy througho...

A total of eight Simmental heifers (114 ± 3.2 days old and weighing 118 ± 3.8 kg BW) were used to study the effects of feeding method on intake and animal behaviour in a crossover design experiment. Treatments consisted of feeding concentrate and chopped barley straw as (1) choice (CH; concentrate and straw in separate feedbunks) or (2) total mixed ration (TMR; concentrate and straw in one feed...