BACKGROUND Complications of unsafe abortion are a leading cause of maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Adolescents and young women are disproportionately represented among those at risk of these complications. Currently, we know little about the factors associated with young women's timing of abortion. This study examined the timing of abortion as well as factors influencing it among adol...

BACKGROUND Antiphospholipid antibodies are associated with recurrent abortion but correlation between level of antibodies and gestational age of abortion and duration post abortion is not clear. OBJECTIVES Aim of this study was study on relation between antiphospholipid antibodies in women with recurrent abortion and their gestational age and duration post abortion. PATIENTS AND METHODS We ...

This paper explores whether the likelihood of abortion by education changed over time in Finland, where comprehensive family planning services and sexuality education have been available since the early 1970s. This subject has not previously been studied longitudinally with comprehensive and reliable data. A unique longitudinal set of register data of more than 250,000 women aged 20-49 born in ...

Twenty-one cunsultant psychiatrists participated in a prospective study of post-abortion psychosis among a population of 1 333 000 people. During the 15-month study only a single case was reported, concerning a woman who had a history of two previous attacks of puerperal psychosis. The incidence of post-abortion psychosis was 0-3 per 1000 legal abortions. The incidence of puerperal psychosis, w...

The December 2008 issue, with its original papers by Fergusson et al, 1 Dingle et al 2 and its commentaries, 3 was of great interest to us. Fergusson et al have overcome some of the methodological problems of previous studies. 4 Nevertheless, their latest study has weaknesses: the womens' abortion status is not verified objectively, only by self-report. There were 153 abortions in 117 women but...

INTRODUCTION. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 262 I. PHYSIOLOGICAL NATURALISM IN CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 267 A. Physiological Naturalism in Equal Protection Doctrine. . . . 272 B. Physiological Naturalism and Due Process: Roe v. Wade.. 273 1. Roe's account of women's interests in a...

OBJECTIVE to analyze the factors associated to toxoplasmosis-related knowledge among pregnant women attending public health services in the municipality of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. METHODS this is a cross-sectional study conducted with pregnant women assisted in eight health care units; data was collected using a standardized questionnaire, from April 2013 to February 2015. RESULTS ...

human parvovirus b19 is a very common viral infection especially in school-aged children. the infection during pregnancy can affect the fetus due to lack of mother's immunity. although, there is still no evidence of fetal teratogenic effects with parvovirus b19, but non-immune fetal hydrops and abortion may be caused by vertical transmission of the virus during pregnancy. this study was aimed t...

Partial or complete mole affects one in 1000  pregnancies.Partial mole is a rare form of ectopic pregnancy. There was a married woman,gravid 4,parity 1,abortion 1,and she had past medical history 0f right ectopic pregnancy.she had left ectopic pregnancy and was treated by laparascopic left salpyngectomy after failure of intramascular methotrexate treatment.After surgery  the pathology exam show...