The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of active asthma and identify associated risk factors in adolescents 13 to 14 years of age in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso State, Brazil. A cross-sectional population-based and a subsequently a nested case-control study was conducted in 2008 using the protocol of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC). Risk factor a...

This review aims to sketch current scenario of cancers in female reproductive system such as cancer in uterus, ovary, cervix, vagina, vulvar, fallopian tube along with hydatidiform and their treatment strategies.

I narrate these cases merely as rare experience in practice, wishing, meantime, to avoid discussion of the nature of the disease. In accordance with general practice I designate it lupus, yet histological investigation by skilled colleagues shows that it has not the structural peculiarities of most examples of the characteristic and well-known disease in other parts of the body. The name of lup...