for STDs and HIV.4 Though programs vary somewhat in their specific goals, most share the same premise: Expanded condom availability will increase the proportion of protected sexual encounters, particularly when it is accompanied by education and information about safer sex. Opponents have responded that distributing condoms in a school will legitimate and thus increase the prevalence of sexual ...

Originally, the puerperium was defined as the period of confinement during and just after birth; it is now generally accepted to mean the 6 weeks after delivery. The puerperium has also been referred to as “the fourth trimester.” This period is marked by multiple physiologic changes (Table 123.1) as the woman returns to the prepregnant state, including healing physically from any trauma during ...

Prasugrel is a thienopyridine antiplatelet prodrug that undergoes rapid hydrolysis in vivo to a thiolactone metabolite by human carboxylesterase-2 (hCE2) during gastrointestinal absorption. The thiolactone metabolite is further converted to a pharmacologically active metabolite by cytochrome P450 isoforms. The aim of the current study was to elucidate hydrolases other than hCE2 involved in the ...

The objective of the present study is to determine the occurrence of “W” morphology of P100 waveform in Pattern Reversal Visual Evoked Potential (PRVEP) recordings of a cohort of patients having Primary open angle glaucoma. This rural hospital based study was conducted in the Neurophysiology unit of the Department of Physiology, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram. The study ...

objective(s): iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine (123i-mibg) myocardial scintigraphy has been used to evaluate cardiac sympathetic denervation in lewy body disease (lbd), including parkinson’s disease (pd) and dementia with lewy bodies (dlb). the heart-tomediastinum ratio (h/m) in pd and dlb is significantly lower than that in parkinson’s plus syndromes and alzheimer’s disease. although this ra...