Recent reviews suggest that religiosity is associated with the delay of adolescent coital debut (Rostosky, Wilcox, Wright, Randall, in press; Wilcox, Rostosky, Randall, Wright, 2001). Few studies, however, have examined this association using longitudinal data to test theoretically driven models. We analyzed data from 3,691 adolescents (ages 15-21), testing the hypothesis that adolescent religi...

BACKGROUND Previous findings suggest that developmental exposures to persistent organochlorine pollutants (POPs) may be detrimental for the development of the immune system in the offspring. Whether these suspected immunoregulatory effects persist beyond early childhood remains unclear. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between maternal serum concentration...

Priapism is a rare and unusual presentation in Emergency Department of Nepal and is really a challenge for the working Emergency Physicians. In Nepalese context it is a social stigma and is often a pitfall due to possible delayed presentation. A young Nepalese Hindu male presented to our Emergency Department with post coital priapism who seeked help only after ninety-six hours in request of his...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate sexual behaviour (including abstinence), sex partner change, and condom use during the 3 month period following treatment for Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Trichomonas vaginalis, or non-gonococcal urethritis. METHODS 251 14-21 year old participants (83% female; 83% African-American) diagnosed with gonorrhoea, chlamydia, trichomonas, or non-gonococcal uret...

background and objective: hysteroscopy is considered as very important in the investigation of abnormal uterine bleeding. it is usually performed as an outpatient procedure under either local or no anesthesia. this study was designed to compare the combination of paracervical block (pcb) and conscious sedation with paracervical block or conscious sedation alone for outpatient hysteroscopy in te...

A tube-feeding model for administering microplastic (MP, Ø = 30 ?m) spheres to fish larvae was employed quantify the uptake of hydrophobic organic contaminants (HOCs) into larval body through a single administration MP. Polychlorinated biphenyl-153 (PCB-153) used as representative HOC that can be sorbed MP in sea. Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) (34–51 days post-hatching) were selected anima...

The aim of this study was to determine the levels of six polychlorinated biphenyls (referred to as PCB-28, PCB-52, PCB-101, PCB-138, PCB-153 and PCB-180, according to the IUPAC) in freshwater fish from the Zagreb area. A total of 216 samples was collected from five sites: from the Sava River upstream of Zagreb, in Zagreb, and downstream of Zagreb, from Lake Jarun, and from five fishponds from t...