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Cervical examination between 26 and 30 weeks' gestation is described as a method for identifying women at risk for delivery before 34 weeks. Blinded cervical examinations were performed in 185 consecu...

Natural Family Planning (NFP) is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "methods for planning or avoiding pregnancies by observation of the natural signs and symptoms of the fertile and inf...

Forty-one women with breast cancer and 119 controls participated in a case-control study of the relation of endogenous sex hormones to breast carcinoma in premenopausal women. During the follicular ph...

The use of mefenamic acid in the treatment of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) was investigated in 15 women over six menstrual cycles. A randomized, double-blind, cross-over, placebo-controlled design was ...

Polycystic ovaries were defined with ultrasound imaging in a series of 173 women who presented to a gynaecological endocrine clinic with anovulation or hirsutism. Polycystic ovaries were found in 26% ...

Women with a history of recurrent spontaneous abortions (repeaters) are compared with women who have had live births and no spontaneous abortions (multiparae) and women who have had live births and on...

Natural methods of family planning make use of the naturally occurring signs and symptoms of the fertile and infertile phases of the menstrual cycle. Recognizable signs and symptoms occur cyclically, ...

In recent years increasing interest has focused on the symptoms that accompany normal ovulation. 'Identifying the accuracy ofthese symptoms as indicators of ovulation is of practical importance both t...

A study to evaluate whether ambulatory tocodynamometry at home could enhance the management of oral tocolysis was performed. On discharge from the hospital, after completing parenteral tocolysis, 60 p...

Human cervical mucus from women using Lippes Loop and T-Cu-200 IUDs was used to study sperm migration in vitro using flat capillary tubes. Cervical mucus from women bearing no IUD was used as the cont...

Risks of 5 natural family planning (NFP) methods are compared. The main risk of these methods is the risk of pregnancy stemming from method failure, errors in instruction, error in application of the ...

The association between in vitro fertilization (IVF) and the zona-free hamster egg sperm penetration assay (SPA) was studied in 134 couples. The indications for IVF were tubal disease in 82 couples, u...

To determine the reason for the higher pregnancy rate in couples with secondary infertility, the authors compared 237 infertile couples who had a previous pregnancy in the current partnership (seconda...

Since the start in 1968 of the Oxford Family Planning Association contraceptive study 31 women have developed ulcerative colitis and 18 have developed Crohn's disease, giving incidences of 0.15 and 0....

Luteal phase deficiency, diagnosed by endometrial biopsy, was found in 1 out of 25 control fertile women and in 46 out of 355 infertile patients, a difference that was not significant. It was also fou...

The incidence of congenital anomalies in infants born to 382 women treated with P was noted. Only five anomalies occurred in the infants born to women who had taken P. This study supports the data of ...

Rigorous criteria were used to select women with severe premenstrual syndrome for inclusion in an 8-month double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial of progesterone vaginal suppositories. Followin...

To evaluate the feasibility of the use of serial ultrasound measurements of cervical length, membrane protrusion, and dilatation to discriminate between the competent and the incompetent cervix, 107 a...

The potential tocolytic effect of natural progesterone administration on premature labor was investigated in a double-blind study. An oral progesterone formulation was used because its ability to incr...

The first study was done in which vaginal hormonal cytograms were correlated with cervical mucus symptoms as charted by women using the ovulation method of natural family planning. Daily vaginal smear...

Ovulation was induced with one-quarter tablet (12.5 mg) of clomiphene citrate given for five days to three oligoovulatory patients who had consistently formed functional ovarian cysts when given 50 an...

A group of 8303 women was studied to determine the timing of cervical ripening. It was confirmed that these signs of cervical change can be observed several weeks before preterm births. The precocious...

There is no information available about the effect of iron in formula on the development of gastrointestinal humoral immune response in early human infancy. We compared standard Enfamil to iron-fortif...

Artifacts interfering with sonographic imaging of the uterine cervix in pregnancy are described. Increasing the amount of fluid in the urinary bladder closes the cervix and alters the configuration of...

Conditioning exercise decreased premenstrual symptoms during 3 months of a prospective controlled training study. Eight women with normal ovulatory menstrual cycles began a running exercise training p...

Endometriosis has been associated with an increased incidence of spontaneous abortion, compared with the abortion rate of the general population. To assess whether a separate control group would affec...

A single dose of MPA (Depo-Provera; Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo, Michigan) was administered intramuscularly to 12 time-mated pregnant cynomolgus monkeys on day 27 (+/- 2) of gestation at 25 mg/kg or at 100 ...

The use-effectiveness of natural methods of family planning in lactation is evaluated by comparing the incidence of unplanned pregnancies in a group of nursing mothers practising these methods with th...

To determine whether changes in circulating levels of neuropeptides are associated with symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS), 20 women with the diagnosis of PMS and 20 asymptomatic subjects were st...

The role of subclinical intrauterine infection in preterm labor was evaluated prospectively in 40 patients and appropriate control subjects. The 24 preterm labor patients (60%) with a negative C-react...

A single dose of MPA (Depo-Provera; Upjohn Co.; USA) was administered intramuscularly on day 27 (+/- 2) of gestation to three dosage groups of pregnant baboons. The dosage expressed as mg/kg correspon...

The risk of Crohn's disease in relation to oral contraceptive use was evaluated in a hospital-based, case-control study of 57 women with Crohn's disease and 2189 controls with other conditions. The re...

The effect of spironolactone on adrenal androgen and cortisol production was studied in six hirsute women. Hirsute women were evaluated before and 1 month after receiving 200 mg of spironolactone dail...

We studied endometrial luteal phase in specimens from 660 biopsies done in 300 patients from our infertility clinic. A minimum of two (240 women) or three (60 women) endometrial biopsy specimens from ...

Progesterone (P) has not been administered orally because of reportedly poor bioavailability and a rapid clearance rate. Unfortunately, the synthetic derivatives, although orally active, have a number...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of peritoneal fluid (PF) on in vitro cleavage of 2-cell mouse embryos. PF was aspirated from the posterior cul-de-sac at laparoscopy and centrifuge...

An examination was made of the possibility that 100 to 200 ml of intraperitoneal 32% dextran 70 and/or 0.5% hydrocortisone sodium succinate (randomized independently with similar volumes of Ringer's l...

We describe 16 patients with neuropathy associated with pyridoxine abuse. The clinical picture of a pure sensory central-peripheral distal axonopathy was consistent. Pyridoxine dose was 0.2 to 5 g/d, ...

Systemic lupus erythematosus characteristically afflicts women of reproductive age, yet the explanation for this feature is unknown. This hospital-based, case-control study of 109 incident cases of sy...

A prospective six-year study (1975-1980) of 273 patients, monitored in the use of natural family planning (NFP), has shown that those with previously irregular menstrual cycles are disadvantaged in th...

Human chorionic gonadotropin was administered intramuscularly in an open study of 32 women whose last three pregnancies had ended in spontaneous abortion. An initial dosage of 10 000 iu on earliest di...

The likelihood of repetition of preterm birth after spontaneous onset of labour has been studied in 6572 reproductive careers after excluding stillbirths, multiple births, all careers in which any lab...

The protective effect of progesterone or tamoxifen, an antiestrogenic agent, was investigated in estrogen-induced mammary carcinogenesis. Multiple mammary tumors (MT) of tubular or medullary carcinoma...

A system capable of ambulatory home monitoring of uterine activity and data transmission was evaluated in a group of pregnant patients. The evaluation focused on three questions: 1) Is the information...