Towards healthier infertility

Parading towards healthier lives, the Mangyan of Mindoro

Global health aid provided by medical students in Singapore to vulnerable populations in Asia includes efforts in preventive medicine, for example, administration of vaccines and installation of water tanks, health education to improve knowledge on diseases afflicting communities, health screening, and affordable treatment for specific conditions. The Manila Medical Mission is a student group, ...

Who empowers women towards healthier lifestyles? Example from western Croatia.

This article explores who among the doctors, other health care workers, family or somebody else most frequently advised women about their lifestyle changes related to cardiovascular health (including smoking, nutritional habits and physical activity). We analyzed who advised the most, in relation to the parameters important in the etiology of cardiovascular diseases: age, systolic blood pressur...

Law, bioethics and biomedicine--towards a healthier interaction.

Centenarian offspring: start healthier and stay healthier.

OBJECTIVES To assess the relative incidence of age-related diseases in a group of centenarian offspring who have thus far been considered to be predisposed to "healthy" aging. DESIGN Longitudinal study. SETTING Nationwide sample. PARTICIPANTS Four hundred forty centenarian offspring and 192 referent cohort subjects who met inclusion criteria of having initial and follow-up health question...

Infertility in resource-constrained settings: moving towards amelioration.

It is often presumed that infertility is not a problem in resource-poor areas where fertility rates are high. This is challenged by consistent evidence that the consequences of childlessness are very severe in low-income countries, particularly for women. In these settings, childless women are frequently stigmatized, isolated, ostracized, disinherited and neglected by the family and local commu...