OBJECTIVES To investigate sexual practices and risk factors for prevalent HIV infection among young men in Kisumu, Kenya. GOAL The goal of this study was to identify behaviors associated with HIV in Kisumu to maximize the effectiveness of future prevention programs. STUDY DESIGN Lifetime sexual histories were collected from a nested sample of 1337 uncircumcised participants within the conte...

To further our understanding of the relation between mood and menopause, the authors examined 1) the association between persistent mood symptoms and menopausal status and 2) factors that increase a woman's vulnerability to an overall dysphoric mood during the early perimenopausal period. The sample consisted of an ethnically diverse community cohort of 3,302 pre- and early perimenopausal women...

Women with benign heavy menstrual bleeding have the choice of a number of medical treatment options to reduce their blood loss and improve quality of life. The role of the clinician is to provide information to facilitate women in making an appropriate choice. Unfortunately, many options can be associated with hormonal side effects, prevention of fertility and lack of efficacy, leading to disco...

Only half of the women who present to clinicians with heavy menstrual loss have objective menorrhagia. However, it is the main reason for women requesting hysterectomy and 1 in 5 women have a hysterectomy in the United Kingdom for this reason by the age of fifty five. At histopathology, a vast majority of these uteri are found to be benign. With less invasive and effective alternatives to hyste...

We studied the short- and long-term effects of classroom separation in twins on behavior problems and academic performance. Short-term effects were studied at age 7 in twins separated at age 5 and long-term effects at age 12 in twins who had been separated or together most of the time at school. Behavior problems were rated by mothers (Child Behavior Checklist at ages 3, 7 and 12) and teachers ...

Idiosyncratic productivity shocks induce larger adjustments to hiring than aggregate shocks, because general equilibrium effects on search frictions and wages partially offset the latter. When firms cannot disentangle the two shocks, they attribute aggregate disturbances partly to idiosyncratic factors and to that extent, respond more aggressively. This translates into increased aggregate volat...

48 International Journal of Trichology / Volume 10 / Issue 1 / January-February 2018 Sir, Recently, Yeon’s group and our own group demonstrated that the dose of 5 mg/day is effective in both pre‐ and post‐menopausal women.[1,2] However, there are few prospective studies to determine finasteride' s adverse effects in women. Some refer to treatment of hirsutism,[3‐13] others to acne, and few to f...

Disturbances in understanding and expression of emotional prosody of speech (aprosodia) belong to frequent but rarely described symptoms of schizophrenia, that negatively influence the life quality of patients. The role of prosody in the process of verbal communication is to complement and emphasize the language (linguistic prosody) and affective (emotional prosody) aspects of the spoken announ...