Two long and broad streams of medical literature, from the 1950's to date, have established the existence of two unrelated abnormalities of androgen production in women with breast cancer. One is the ...
Breast Cancer RiskBreast Cancer AssociationHyperandrogenism and Anovulation
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether long-term intravenous (IV) tocolysis using combined terbutaline and magnesium sulfate is safe and effective.
METHODS: One thousand consecutive women in preterm labor w...
Objective: To clarify how often infertile men should have intercourse to achieve conception, the effect of sequential ejaculation on total motile sperm counts was investigated.
Design: Case-control st...
Ejaculation Frequency and Sperm QualityCoital Timing OptimizationSequential Ejaculation Effects
OBJECTIVE: To determine the ability of luteal phase length determined by basal body temperature (BBT) pattern and a midluteal serum progesterone level to predict the result of an endometrial biopsy in...
Objective: Insufficient breast milk is the most common reason for premature termination of breast-feeding. The causes of lactation insufficiency are usually multifactorial; in a small percentage of ca...
Boyko EJ et al.1994American Journal of Epidemiology
Research on inflammatory bowel disease risk among oral contraceptive users has reached conflicting conclusions. This population-based case-control study evaluated the effects of oral contraceptive use...
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship of subfertility with miscarriage, low birth weight, and preterm delivery.
DESIGN: Comparison of time to pregnancy distributions between pregnancies that had dif...
Pregnancy Outcome AssociationMiscarriage Risk FactorsSubfertility Association
Posaci C et al.1994Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica
We measured plasma Cu. Zn and Mg levels in 40 women suffering from premenstrual tension syndrome (PMTS) and in 20 control subjects by atomic absorption spectrophotometer. Mean plasma Cu, Zn and Mg lev...
Mineral DeficiencyEtiologyTrace Element Assessment
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether luteal E2 is obligatory for obtaining an adequately developed endometrium.
DESIGN: Survey of women with premature ovarian failure (POF) in a prospective, controlled, ran...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the sensitivity and specificity of common clinical tests used for the diagnosis of luteal phase defect (LPD).
DESIGN: The sensitivity and specificity of these tests for predictin...
Diagnostic AccuracySensitivity and SpecificityLuteal Phase Defect Detection
Objective: To follow-up and expand discussion on the action mechanisms of antisperm antibodies in human infertility, the etiology and control of antisperm antibody induction, sperm antigens involved i...
Kambic RT et al.1994Advances in Contraception : the Official Journal of the Society for the Advancement of Contraception
This paper describes the evaluation of a new method of natural family planning (NFP) in Liberia. The Modified Mucus Method (MMM) was developed to address the need for a simple method of charting for p...
Modified Mucus MethodDeveloping Country TrialsSympto-Thermal vs Mucus Method Comparison
Prior JC et al.1994The American Journal of Medicine
Objective: Bone loss occurs in young women who experience amenorrhea or ovulatory disturbances. The purpose of this study was to determine whether bone loss could be prevented by simulating a more nor...
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the use of luteal phase support improves pregnancy rate (PR) in infertility.
DESIGN: A meta-analysis of randomized trials of luteal phase support. Search of the Nation...
Fehring RJ et al.1994Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing : JOGNN
OBJECTIVE: To determine the use effectiveness of the Creighton model ovulation method in avoiding and achieving pregnancy.
DESIGN: Prospective, descriptive.
SETTING: A natural family planning clinic...
Use EffectivenessPregnancy AvoidanceContraceptive Effectiveness
OBJECTIVES: To define relation between mood and concentrations of progesterone and cortisol during perinatal period to test hypothesis that rapid physiological withdrawal of steroid hormones after del...
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To characterize ampullary endosalpingeal findings in women with occlusive or nonocclusive salpingitis isthmica nodosa.
DESIGN: Prospective case study.
SETTING: Obstetrics and Gyneco...
OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship between some reproductive variables and infertility caused by tubal obstruction.
DESIGN: A retrospective, case-control study.
SETTING: A tertiary care univer...
Natural family planning (NFP) methods can be effective if taught well and practised by well-motivated couples. Midwives should be able to give couples an understanding of the basic principles of the m...
Ovulation MethodCervical Mucus and TemperatureReturn of Fertility Detection
OBJECTIVE: To establish age-stratified reference values for salivary luteal P levels.
DESIGN: One hundred thirty-six regularly menstruating women (18 to 48 years of age), screened for weight, exercis...
"Uterine Isolation" has been discussed, in one form or another, since the early 1940's by such notable American theologians as Fr. John C. Ford, SJ, Fr. Gerald Kelly, SJ; Fr. Francis J. Connell, C.SS....
OBJECTIVE: To (1) review the events leading to peritoneal adhesion formation; (2) review traditional adhesion prevention adjuvants; (3) overview studies for adhesion prevention barriers including a pe...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate further the safety and efficacy of selective ostial salpingography combined with transcervical wire recanalization for the diagnosis and treatment of proximal tubal obstruction....
The sperm function of fertile men (control), infertility patients (experimental), and men with varicocele were compared. The bioassays used were the follicular fluid-induced acrosome reaction, the bin...
Bioassay AssessmentVaricocele and Sperm FunctionSperm Function Testing
An introduction to and some new anatomical and physiological aspects of the cervix and vagina are presented and also an explanation of the biosynthesis and molecular structure of mucus.
Silent intrauterine infection as cause of preterm labour should be recognised early by measuring C-reactive protein (CRP) levels in the maternal serum. Ensuing antibiotic therapy may not only cause ge...
Infection ScreeningPuerperal EndometritisC-Reactive Protein in Pregnancy
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - 4th Edition1994Personality disorders
We examined the latent structure underlying the criteria for DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association, 2000, Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed., text revision). Washingt...
Objective: To determine whether cyclic medroxyprogesterone treatment given without estrogen causes adverse symptoms in postmenopausal women.
Methods: This was a placebo-controlled, double-blind, cros...
Hobel CJ et al.1994American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
OBJECTIVE: The primary objective of this prospective study was to test whether preterm birth prevention education plus increased clinic visits and selected prophylactic interventions reduce preterm bi...
The following is an address presented to a summit meeting on natural family planning sponsored by the Pontifical Councilfor the Family in December, 1992
I am honored and privileged to have this opport...
Development and HistoryBillings Ovulation MethodNatural Family Planning
Barr SI et al.1994The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
We assessed the relationship between dietary restraint and menstrual cycle characteristics in 27 ovulatory women, previous participants in a longitudinal study of spinal cancellous bone mineral densit...
Schöpf J et al.1994European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
A group of 119 patients suffering from a severe psychiatric postpartum disorder who were admitted for the first time in their life to a psychiatric hospital has been investigated. The onset of illness...
OBJECTIVE: To determine prospectively the incidence of several pulmonary diagnoses among infants born through clear or meconium-stained amniotic fluid (AF) managed by a selective approach to tracheal ...
Annual report (Jahrbuch) of the Deutsches IVF-Register (DIR) for treatment year 1993. DIR is the German national IVF/ICSI registry, founded 1982 — the oldest continuously operating ART registry. Volun...
No Authors Listed1993Advances in Contraception : the Official Journal of the Society for the Advancement of Contraception
Since 1989 an international multicenter prospective study to evaluate the effectiveness and acceptability of natural family planning (NFP) methods in Europe has been conducted by the NFP Research Cent...
OBJECTIVE: To compare the effect of fertility drugs and IVF on the outcome of triplet pregnancies.
DESIGN: Prospective clinical study.
SETTING: A single university medical center.
PATIENTS: One hun...
good of all, and above all, for the protection of the weak."2I submit that, no matter how appealing a marketplace model may seem for the NHS, it is a business model.As such the destruction of either p...
Bhavnani BR et al.1993The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
The constant infusion of [3H]equilin sulfate ([3H]EqS) was used to estimate the MCR of equilin sulfate (EqS) and to measure the conversion of this estrogen to equilin (Eq), equilenin (Eqn), equilenin ...
Phipps WR et al.1993The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
Lignans are a group of phytochemicals shown to have weakly estrogenic and antiestrogenic properties. Two specific lignans, enterodiol and enterolactone, are absorbed after formation in the intestinal ...
Dietary InfluencesLignans and Hormonal EffectsNutritional Interventions
OBJECTIVE: To establish a nomogram for the length of the uterocervical canal and to determine whether this can be used to predict preterm delivery.
METHODS: Cervical length was measured by transvagin...
Cervical Length AssessmentTransvaginal Cervical MeasurementPrediction and Risk Stratification
A recent survey conducted by the American Academy of Natural Family Planning (AANFP) found that over 55% of Catholic hospitals surveyed either provide or would like to provide some form of Natural Fam...