Background The etiology of infertility has direct influence on the plan and outcome of its management. In this paper we showed the effect of history of tuberculosis (TB) on female infertility among infertile couples admitted to Royan infertility management center. MaterialsAndMethods This case control study was performed on cases that were diagnosed with female infertility (308 women). Controls...

Kenya's national survey data have shown patterns of fertility decline in the more socioeconomically advantaged regions. In the central areas, where urbanization and economic development is the highest, fertility has begun to decline rapidly. The lowest fertility was in Nairobi capital region; the Coast Province also experienced recent fertility decline. Fertility has remained high in the Wester...

BACKGROUND Case management may be a feasible solution to the problem of service fragmentation for people with dementia. AIM To adapt a US model of primary care-based case management for people with dementia and test it in general practice. DESIGN AND SETTING Mixed-methodology case studies of case management implementation in four general practices: one rural, one inner-city, and two urban p...

In this article, we present OTAWA, a framework for computing the Worst Case Execution Time of a program. From its design, it provides an extensible and open architecture whose objective is the implementation of existing and future static analyses for WCET computation. Inspired by existing generic tools, it is based on an architecture abstraction layers where hooked annotations store specific an...

abstract background: childhood cancers are fatal diseases which cause intense stress and traumatic situations for the ones who experience those diseases. this kind of an emotionally hard life may create some hardships for developing self‑concept. the aim of the study is to put forth the self‑exposure of a school‑age child by using plays. materials and methods: six play sessions had been carried...

background: to investigate the relation between serum leptin levels and cerebral infarction (ci) by meta-analysis. materials and methods: scientific literature databases were searched for studies published in chinese and english. after retrieving relevant articles through database searches and screening using predefined selection criteria, high-quality studies related to our research topic were...

Background Performance-Based Financing (PBF) has been advanced as a solution to contribute to improving the performance of health systems in developing countries. This is the case in Benin. This study aims to analyse how two PBF approaches, piloted in Benin, behave during implementation and what effects they produce, through investigating how local stakeholders perceive the introduction of PBF,...

a 1:1 matched case-control study of calves under 1 month of age was carried out by weekly visits to 7 dairy farms in mashhad from may 2008 to october 2008. fecal samples were collected from a total of 112 calves with clinical signs of diarrhea and from 112 matched animals without clinical signs of diarrhea as assessed by a scoring system. the samples were investigated for the presence of rotavi...

introduction and aims: we noticed in our practice that the patients with ulcerative colitis (uc) who have developed primary sclerosing cholangitis (psc) experience a milder course of colonic disease. our objective in this study was to define whether there is any difference between uc activity and its course in patients with and without psc. materials and methods: 19 patients with uc and psc (8 ...