BACKGROUND More women are requesting Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) at pharmacies where screening for Chlamydia trachomatis is not routinely offered. The objective of this study was to assess the uptake of free postal chlamydia screening by women under 25 years who requested EHC at pharmacies in Manchester, UK. METHODS Six Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) that had contracted with pharmacies...

Recently, novel anti-androgens and inhibitors of androgen biosynthesis have been developed through the elucidation of mechanisms of castration resistance of prostate cancer. We believe that these new developments will improve hormonal therapy. On the other hand, there has been an increase in criticism of hormonal therapy, because hormonal therapy is supposed to induce adverse effects such as ca...

the mechanism of transformation by RNA viruses. Benyesh-Melnick and co-workers describe the presence of DNA in purified murine leukemia-sarcoma virus preparations, suggesting that, in addition to unexpectedly complex enzymatic machinery, some tumor viruses may contain more than one type of nucleic acid. Several groups analyze differences in the membranes of transformed and normal cells. Burger,...

Background: Pituitary adenomas represent a quite frequent neurosurgical disease. Secreting pituitary adenomas are represented by PRL, GH, ACTH and TSH tumours; the rate of postoperative hormonal recurrence is not ineligible. Methods: We present 106 patients affected by secreting pituitary microadenomas operated through transsphenoidal approach from 1998 through to 2008; in 54 (group 1) patients...