BACKGROUND Disease susceptibility and drug response of individuals are presumed to be different depending on their personality traits. The Sasang typology, a traditional Korean medical typology, explains the individual differences of vulnerability to pathology and proposes guidelines for the safe and effective use of medical herbs depending on individual traits. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the p...

One central health question remains unanswered 7 years after the war with Iraq: Is there a "Gulf War syndrome"? Within a few months of returning home in 1991, some of the 750,000 Gulf War veterans from the United States, Great Britain, and Canada began complaining of fatigue, headaches, joint pains, sleep disturbances, cognitive difficulties, and other physical (somatic) symptoms (1). Approxima...

BACKGROUND Primary dysmenorrhea seems to be one the most common gynecologic condition in women of childbearing age. OBJECTIVES The aim of this research was to evaluate psychologic and nonpsychologic risk factors of primary dysmenorrhea. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on medical sciences students of Babol University of Medical Sciences. In this study, 180 females...

Today advanced assisted reproductive technology (ART) could offer hope to infertile couples to have a child. One of the most popular technique with increased worldwide interest is surrogacy (1) that need male and female gametes and a healthy woman with a healthy uterus (2). The term of surrogate mother or surrogate is usually used to the woman who carries and delivers a child for another woman ...

Neurologic and psychologic complications are usually related to drug toxicity, infections or symptoms induced by deterioration of renal allograft function. Metabolic encephalopathy, hypertensive encephalopathy, cerebrovascular events, and new-onset seizures have all been reported in organ-transplant recipients. Infections can be caused by listeria, cryptococcus, nocardia, aspergillus and mu...

Human grows and develops in environment. Social environment give lots of impact shaping life’s aspects, especially social- psychologic aspect. One adolescent development task which is the hardest related to social adjustment. Adolescent’s life marked by prominence intellectual emotional’s fungctions. Factors impacting such as family, maturity, economic status, education, mental capacity

The latest data on the impact of novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) female and male reproductive health are reviewed. Pathological changes in organs tissues human reproduction system after COVID-19 as well recommendations for rehabilitation couples planning pregnancy discussed. Moreover, issues resulting from altered psychologic status women were highlighted well.

CONTEXT Epidemiologic studies undertaken in postconflict countries have focused primarily on trauma-related disorders. There is a need to include disabling psychotic disorders in order to plan clinical services in these settings. OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of key clinical disorders in Timor Leste (East Timor), and to assess cultural factors that may influence help-seeking patterns....

We have shown previously that the administration of morphine (0.8 mg/kg) to patients with COPD increases the VO2max by 19.3 percent. A recent study demonstrated that the administration of low-dose nebulized morphine (approximately 2 mg) increased the endurance time of patients with severe lung disease by 1 min (35 percent) with few systemic side effects. This double-blind crossover study evalua...

In many parts of the world, people are becoming increasingly aware of the major problem of sexual and physical abuse. Population estimates of selfreported sexual abuse range from 7% to 22% for childhood abuse and from 13% to 25% for lifetime abuse. An additional 10% of women report serious physical abuse, and an association between sexual and physical abuse has been reported. Women are abused m...