It is a normal human tendency to 'run for your life' when an earthquake occurs. Adolescent girls and women of reproductive age leave their homes with only the clothes they are wearing to save their own and their families' lives. Immediate disaster relief aid with its (unintentional) lack of gender sensitivity has little or no materials for the appropriate management of menstrual hygiene. The bi...

An estimated 222 million women in low and middle income countries would like to delay or stop childbearing but are not using any method of contraception. Given the impetus provided by Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) to enable 120 million more women and girls to access modern contraceptives by 2020, it is urgent to identify women in need, better understand the obstacles they face in accessing cont...

Following peripheral nerve trauma, no technique induces axons to regenerate across a long nerve gaps and restore neurological function. The standard clinical “gold standard” technique for bridging nerve gaps is a graft of pure sensory nerve. However, sensory nerve grafts have many limitations because they only induce good axon regeneration across gaps <2 cm in length, for the nerves repaired <2...