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STUDY Question: Is bilateral tubotubal anastomosis a successful treatment in an outpatient patient population? SUMMARY ANSWER: For women wanting children after tubal sterilization, bilateral tubotuba...

STUDY Question: Were spontaneous miscarriages more frequent in women with histologically proven endometriosis when compared with endometriosis-free controls? SUMMARY ANSWER: Endometriosis-affected wo...

Background: The incidence of multiple sclerosis (MS) is rising in women. Objective: To determine whether the use of combined oral contraceptives (COCs) are associated with MS risk and whether this va...

OBJECTIVE: To compare the expression of progesterone receptors (A + B) and type-B progesterone receptors in the epithelial and stromal cells of fertile and infertile women. METHODS: Women were divide...

OBJECTIVE: Thyroid dysfunction has been described as a possible risk factor for having an abnormal fetal position at birth. In this study we aim to determine the association between thyroid function i...

Study Question: What is the association between daily preconception-initiated low-dose aspirin (LDA) treatment and very early pregnancy losses or euploid (chromosomally normal) losses among women with...

In 2014, the American Academy of Pediatrics published its policy statement on contraception for adolescents, which provides, in effect, a mandate to temporarily sterilize all adolescents with long-act...

OBJECTIVE: To identify factors associated with cancer treatment-induced amenorrhea and time to return of menses. DESIGN: Population-based cohort study. SETTING: Not applicable. PATIENT(S): Female c...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether pregnancies that were achieved via oocyte donation, compared with pregnancies achieved via other assisted reproductive technology methods or natural ...

Uterine leiomyomata (UL) have a substantial impact on women's health, but relatively few studies have identified opportunities for primary prevention of these neoplasms. Most established risk factors ...

INTRODUCTION: Perinatal loss is often a traumatic outcome for families. While there are limited data about depressive outcomes in small populations, information about depression and posttraumatic stre...

Our study supports the hypothesis that there is no physiologic evidence for delaying pregnancy attempt after an early loss.

Objective: We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the influence of race and ethnicity on clinical pregnancy and live birth outcomes after in vitro fertilization (IVF).StudyWe searched PubMed, EM...

Background: In addition to HPV, high parity and hormonal contraceptives have been associated with cervical cancer (CC). However, most of the evidence comes from retrospective case-control studies. The...

Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International (Issn: 2456-9119) is dedicated to publish high quality papers in all areas of pharmaceutical Science including pharmaceutical drugs, community pharmacy...

SUMMARYAssisted reproductive technology (ART) exposes gametes and embryos to an artificial environment that does not resemble the conditions of natural conception, and therefore might change epigeneti...

The article raises the issue of today’s application of assisted (artificial) reproduction methods, which are incom-patible with human dignity. The authors articulate the principles of human dignity, w...

The latest retrievable data about infertility in the Philippines was made available to the public by Merck Serono, a private pharmaceutical company who commissioned the survey in 2011. The survey was ...

Introduction - A pregnant woman is diagnosed with uterine cancer. Is it permissible to operate to remove the cancer, even though doing so will result in the loss of the baby? - A dying man is in extre...

CONTEXT: Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), a progestogen-only contraceptive injectable, has traditionally been formulated as a crystalline suspension delivered intramuscularly (IM) at a dose o...

Annual report (Jahrbuch) of the Deutsches IVF-Register (DIR) for treatment year 2015. DIR is the German national IVF/ICSI registry, founded 1982 — the oldest continuously operating ART registry. Volun...

CARTR Plus annual report covering Canadian ART cycle outcomes. Voluntary professional society data submission via CFAS / BORN Ontario.

Varicocele recurrence is one of the most common complications associated with varicocele repair. A systematic review was performed to evaluate varicocele recurrence rates, anatomic causes of recurrenc...

BACKGROUND: A growing body of evidence suggests that metabolic syndrome is associated with endocrine disorders including thyroid dysfunction. Thyroid dysfunction in metabolic syndrome patients may fur...

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether there are any increases in pregnancy-related complications and adverse pregnancy outcomes in singleton pregnancies after assisted reproductive technology (ART) compared...

Myomas are the most common benign tumors of the genital organs in women of childbearing age, causing significant morbidity and impairing their quality of life. In our investigation, we have reviewed t...

Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) is a common gynecological complaint with multiple etiologies and diverse pathophysiological origins. This review discusses HMB with reference to the recently proposed PA...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the associations of occupational, educational and residential factors with the outcomes of in vitro fertilization -embryo transfer (IVF-ET). METHODS: A retrospective analysi...

20. International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technologies world report: Assisted Reproductive Technology 2008, 2009 and 2010. Dyer S(1), Chambers GM(2), de Mouzon J(3), Nygren KG(4...

Objective: As the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to spread in Africa and Asia, use of the injectable contraceptive steroid DMPA is widespread and has been increasing. Since studies dating back to 1992 ha...

Progesterone support in pregnancy has been in use for over 60 years, having received its start in the 1940s. Its initial use was in patients who had habitual spontaneous abortion caused by luteal phas...

Objective: To evaluate whether myo-inositol supplementation may reduce gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) rate in overweight women. Methods: In an open-label, randomized trial, myo-inositol (2 g plu...

We hypothesized that diet would have direct effects on glucose metabolism with direct and indirect effects on bone metabolism in a cohort of Canadian adults. We assessed dietary patterns (Prudent [fru...

Comment in BMJ. 2015 Dec 23;351:h6913. doi: 10.1136/bmj.h6913. JAMA. 2015 Dec 22-29;314(24):2627-9. doi: 10.1001/jama.2015.17297. IMPORTANCE: The likelihood of achieving a live birth with repeat in v...

STUDY Question: Do the basal body temperature (BBT) shift and the cervical mucus markers for the beginning of the post-ovulatory infertile phase (POIP) of a menstrual cycle agree with the correspondin...

Purpose: Main aim was to estimate the association between use of exogenous hormones and breast cancer (BC) risk in a large population-based survey, and to assess the representativeness and overall val...

Background: Casein-free, gluten-free diets have been reported to mitigate some of the inflammatory gastrointestinal and behavioral traits associated with autism, but the mechanism for this palliative ...

Objective: Adverse health outcomes related to exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals, including increased incidences of coronary heart disease, prostate and testicular cancers, and congenital disa...

Traditionally, IVF success rates have been reported in terms of live birth per fresh cycle or embryo transfer. With the increasing use of embryo freezing and thawing it is essential that we report not...

OBJECTIVE: There has been no attempt to date to synthesize the available evidence for the efficacy of ginger for treating primary dysmenorrhea. This systematic review evaluates the current evidence fo...

BACKGROUND: Progesterone is essential for the maintenance of pregnancy. However, whether progesterone supplementation in the first trimester of pregnancy would increase the rate of live births among w...

Despite variations worldwide and within the U.S. population, median age at menarche has remained relatively stable-between 12 years and 13 years-across well-nourished populations in developed countrie...

Background: Evidence is growing that the equilibrium between reactive oxygen species and antioxidants plays a vital role in women's reproductive health. Objective: The objective of this study was to ...

Background: Luteinized unruptured follicle (LUF) syndrome is considered a cause of ovulation failure and a subtle cause of infertility. Preovulatory injection of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) pre...