A etnobotânica enquanto ciência tem revelado em todo mundo um quantitativo importante de espécies vegetais utilizadas no tratamento diversas doenças. Na América Latina a maioria destes estudos é referente às plantas medicinais. Tratando-se das patologias vinculadas ao sistema urogenital, áreas do Nordeste brasileiro têm sido descrito número significativo vegetais. Nesse sentido, considerando ne...

BACKGROUND Urine analysis is one of the recommended antenatal guidelines for early diagnosis of pregnancy-associated complications. While in practice, urine analysis by dipstick had been used to provide useful information on other urinary tract infections, its applications for early detection of urogenital schistosomiasis in pregnant women is often times not given due attention in most endemic ...

A team of researchers has documented a variety of urogenital malformations in male babies born to women living in an area of South Africa where the potentially endocrine-disrupting pesticide DDT is still used. The team, reporting in a study pub lished online 23 October 2009 in BJU International, believes the malformations may be connected to the mothers’ DDT exposure. A global halt to DDT’s use...

BACKGROUND Symptom- and sexual history-based testing i.e., testing on indication, for anorectal sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in women is common. Yet, it is unknown whether this strategy is effective. Moreover, little is known about alternative transmission routes i.e. by fingers/toys. This study assesses anorectal STI prevalence and infections missed by current testing practice, there...