BACKGROUND This study aims to explore the views of women concerning their choice of long-acting method of contraception. METHOD Two-hundred and eighty-six women who had either been sterilised or fitted with an etonorgestrel (ETN) implant or the levonorgestrel intrauterine system (LNG IUS) were invited to take part. A response rate of 54% was achieved. Women from all three groups reported posi...

Mrs. M., aged 23 years, healthy-looking female, pregnant 5 months, was operated on by us during September, 1931, for tuberculous caries of the left rib. oix inches of this rib were removed from its chondrocostal junction backwards: the entire macroscopically diseased area with a clear two inches of apparenttynealthv pone as well was removed. The wound healed by first intention. Six weeks later ...

Our aim was to determine if water-enhanced antegrade magnetic resonance (MR) pyelography can be an alternative to conventional antegrade pyelography in pregnant patients who require percutaneous nephrostomy placement for urosepsis and/or obstructive uropathy. The pregnant patient was placed supine in a 1.5-T MRI scanner seven days after percutaneous nephrostomy placement using ultrasound. Seria...

This constitutes the first study to compare use of electron beam (EB) irradiation and pulsed light (PL) for novel sterilisation of infant mik formula retailed in Ireland. The microbiological quality of 60 powdered infant milk formula (PIMF), representative of two leading brands available in Ireland, were analyzed immediately after reconstitution and were shown to exhibit a total aerobic mesophi...

The sterilisation of people with learning disabilities was a procedure that took place with disturbing frequency during the first four decades of the 20th century (Park and Radford, 1998). This was largely associated with the Eugenics movement, in the mistaken belief that eliminating the opportunities of people with learning disabilities to reproduce would eliminate the incidence of learning di...

BACKGROUND A variety of autogenous and alloplastic materials have been used as subperiosteal implants to correct anophthalmic enophthalmos. Proplast II is a synthetic porous composite of Teflon polymer and alumina. Proplast II offers a number of advantages over other commonly used alloplastic materials such as silicone and polymethyl methacrylate. It is light, porous, resilient, malleable, and ...

Sir,?Under this title Dr. Green of San Francisco discusses in the Indian Medical Gazette for August, 1917, the merits of the cataract operation purporting to have been performed by Hari Shankar in November, 1915. The operation as described by Dr. Green in the above article is a good deal different to the one I had occasion during last May to witness Hari Shankar doing in about 60 cases, most of...

AIMS To assess the ocular bioavailability of fluorescein from a novel water free, freeze dried ophthalmic drug delivery system compared to conventional preservative-free fluorescein eye drops. METHODS Sodium fluorescein 0.17% was dissolved in an aqueous solution of hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose 1.0% (HPMC), deposited on sterilised flexible hydrophobic poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) carrier ...

OBJECTIVE To review experience at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary with regard to women who underwent reversal of sterilisation, to obtain a profile of these women and to evaluate the procedure itself in terms of safety and restoration of fertility. DESIGN A retrospective study based on case records from the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and from the Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital, both of which share...

The most important characteristics of chitosans, which make them useful as delivery vectors for drugs and therapeutic proteins, are their excellent mucoadhesive and absorption enhancing properties [1-3]. The mucoadhesion is due to the electrostatic interaction between the positive charge on the chitosan polymer and the negatively charged sialic acid residues on the mucosal surface [4]. Because ...