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Recurrent IVF failure: is third party reproduction the only option?

For many couples experiencing infertility, IVF constitutes the last resort treatment, sometimes after other treatment options have also failed. Unfortunately, IVF is not always successful, and the cause for the implantation failure quite often remains unexplained. Depending on the specific circumstances, the use of donor eggs, donor sperm or even a gestational carrier are often recommended in a...

Cancer registries in Europe—going forward is the only option

Cancer registries (CR) are the fundamental source of objective cancer data, and thus are indispensable for the evaluation of the cancer burden and for design of effective cancer control plans. Their potential roles spread far beyond epidemiological research, from the exploration of the causes of cancer to health economics, from the evaluation of mass screening programmes to monitoring the quali...

Atrial fibrillation, is warfarin the only option for stroke prevention?

50 Million Announced Forty Years Ago 100 Million Mexicans… Only

1% in 2000. Although the objective was far from being reached (the current rate being close to 2%), in 2000 Mexico had 53 million inhabitants fewer than it would have had if fertility had remained at its 1970 level. The population pyramids of 1930, 1970 and 2000 clearly illustrate this dynamics (Figure 2). In 1930 the population was beginning to recover from the aftereffects of the Revolution a...

Is psychiatry only neurology? Or only abnormal psychology? Déjà vu after 100 years.

Forgetting history, which frequently repeats itself, is a mistake. In General Psychopathology, Jaspers criticised early 20th century psychiatrists, including those who thought psychiatry was only neurology (Wernicke) or only abnormal psychology (Freud), or who did not see the limitations of the medical model in psychiatry (Kraepelin). Jaspers proposed that some psychiatric disorders follow the ...