conclusions the extract contains substances that are effective on the delivery rate, sex ratio, and the number of newborns in the female rats. it may affect through the ionic changes in the rats, by modifying the activity of follicle-stimulating and testosterone hormones, and/or changing the rate of fertilizing ability of sperms containing y chromosome. this phenomenon may also be due to loweri...

background: despite clear reasons for necessity of sexual health education for adolescents, it is a contested issue and has faced challenges in most cultures. providing sexual education for non-married adolescents is culturally unacceptable in most muslim societies. objective: this qualitative study addressed socio-cultural challenges to sexual health education for female adolescents in iran. m...

objective: one of the main cultural issues in universities is relationships between male and female students. due to the adverse consequences of this issue, explaining of the beyond the causes of friendship with opposite-sex, is one of the first steps in planning for youth issues. methods: this qualitative research was conducted based on content analysis. nineteen female university students wer...

objective: to determine association between sexual desire and marital satisfaction and sex guilt among a sample of iranian female university students. methods: the data presented here were obtained from a total of 192 married iranian female university students who were selected via a multi-cluster sampling method from universities of social welfare and rehabilitation, tarbiat modarres, and isla...

This handy volume will undoubtedly make a strong appeal to all keen students of endocrinology. To research workers in the field it will prove of sterling worth as it gives in a concise and systematic way all the important phases of development of the subject together with the difficulties and pitfalls encountered by them. The subject is particularly difficult to deal with in view of the overwhe...

It is not many years since the medical world was intrigued by the work done and proofs shown regarding the omnipotence of the thyroid gland. It was called ' the sun round which the body rotated' the draught to the fire' the sparking plug of human metabolism', terms comprehensive and doubtless correct. Now in this small volume Professor Graves sets out to review and make clear the romance of the...

WVHAT EVERYONE OUGHT TO KNOW. By Oliver T. Osborne. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill. This is a book on health, disease and accident, and should enable the fifteen-minute-a-day reader to talk impressively about a variety of things without thoroughly understanding any of them. One who is reasonably familiar with the fields of biology may wonder if it is useful to present to laymen a variety o...