INTRODUCTION In Nigeria about 50% of oral contraceptive pill users obtain their products from proprietary patent medicine vendors (PPMVs). This group of service providers are poorly trained and have very limited knowledge about contraception. This paper investigated the nature of the advice offered to simulated current and potential users of oral contraceptive pills. The main objective was to a...

BACKGROUND Steroid pre-treatments may be useful to program GnRH antagonist IVF/ICSI cycles. This prospective study assessed hormonal and ultrasound data collected during the free period after the discontinuation of three different pre-treatments to provide information on the optimal time interval required before starting stimulation. METHODS Women were randomized to receive oral contraceptive...

OBJECTIVE To assess the need for, and potential uptake of, a contraceptive service within a genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic. METHODS 544 women, median age 17 years (range 13-54) including 142 teenagers, attending the Fife GUM clinics serving a semirural population of 350,000 for the first time in the 12 month period from 1 September 1995 to 31 August 1996 were interviewed. RESULTS Contr...

The present study investigated the use of the oral contraceptive pill in 880 Austrian high school girls. All participants filled in a questionnaire on lifestyle and menarche. Furthermore, subjects on the pill were asked about their preparation, age at first use, reasons why they take it, side effects and oral contraceptive compliance. All 139 subjects on the pill used low dose monophasic prepar...

Introduction: Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is a rare cause of stroke. The increased awareness among the physicians and suspiciousness myriad its clinical presentation with availability investigation modules therapeutic options has led to decrement mortality morbidity. study intends assess etiological profile patients CVT also short-term outcomes if any factors are associated it. Methods: It...

Background: There are many risk factors which can attribute to ovarian cancer. Oral contraceptive pill (OCP) usage, salpingo-oophorectomy, and high parity considered as protective for Lactation (breastfeeding), incomplete pregnancies, sterilization may offer a weak protection against only few modifiable beyond oral use exist. Hence identifying additional is needed tailor prevention strategies. ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate whether daily educational text messages affect oral contraceptive pill (OCP) continuation at 6 months. METHODS We randomized young women electing OCPs at an urban family planning health center to either routine care or routine care plus 180 days of daily educational text messages. Investigators masked to treatment allocation randomized participants who were not masked to...

OBJECTIVE Studies have shown poor knowledge of oral contraceptives among women attending government health clinics and women in rural areas. Little is known about the level of contraceptive knowledge in educated, affluent, career-orientated women, although it could be expected that access to information would be greater. The study objective was to describe the profile, knowledge and understandi...

background: the etiology of breast cancer and our understanding on the carcinogenicity of different risk factors is impotant for control programms. objective: we investigated the expression of estrogen and progesterone receptors (er, pr), and human epithelial receptor 2 (her2) overexpression and its associations, with environmental risk factors among breast cancer patients.  methods: we classif...

Introduction Eighty per cent of contraceptive care occurs in the general practice setting. UK Medical Eligibility Criteria provides clear guidelines for the safe provision of appropriate contraception. The Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence offer further recommendations for initiation and continuation of the combined contraceptive...