Objective: To examine the relationship between progestin-only contraception and breast cancer, and to make recommendations regarding contraception for the breast cancer survivor. Outcome: Incidence of breast cancer among users of progestin-only contraception. Evidence: PubMed and Medline databases were searched using the terms “breast cancer” and “progesterone,” “contraception,” “depot medroxyp...

Objective: To examine the relationship between progestin-only contraception and breast cancer, and to make recommendations regarding contraception for the breast cancer survivor. Outcome: Incidence of breast cancer among users of progestin-only contraception. Evidence: PubMed and Medline databases were searched using the terms “breast cancer” and “progesterone,” “contraception,” “depot medroxyp...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of individual, system, and interpersonal factors on emergency contraception practices. We hypothesized that abortion attitudes and attitudes toward teen sex would be significant individual factors influencing emergency contraception practices. DESIGN This was a cross-sectional, anonymous Internet survey. SETTING Four pediatric residency programs in the Balti...

When, in the night of 28th February to 1st March 2002, the Ariane 5 rocket with the European Enviromental Satellite Envisat on board lifted off from its launch pad at Kourou, the ESA-European Space Agency’s launching centre in French Guyana and after 23 minutes reached its sun-synchronous polar orbit at an altitude of 800km above the surface of the earth, many scientists and technicians at Aria...

0187 Introduction In 1962, Norman Stoll, the distinguished Rockefeller Institute scientist who helped to establish human parasitology research in North America, described the unique health impact of hookworm as follows [1]: As it was when I fi rst saw it, so it is now, one of the most evil of infections. Not with dramatic pathology as are fi lariasis, or schistosomiasis, but with damage silent ...

Fire has been an important part of the Earth system for over 350 Myr. Humans evolved in this fiery world and are the only animals to have used and controlled fire. The interaction of mankind with fire is a complex one, with both positive and negative aspects. Humans have long used fire for heating, cooking, landscape management and agriculture, as well as for pyrotechnologies and in industrial ...

There is a misconception among transplant clinicians that contraception after a successful renal transplant is challenging. This is partly due to the complex nature of transplant patients, where immunosuppression and graft dysfunction create major concerns. In addition, good evidence regarding contraception and transplant is scarce, with most of the evidence extrapolated from observational and ...