Background: The quality of life coronary heart disease (CHD) patients can be improved by increasing patient compliance with treatment and health literacy rates. Over the past decade, mobile (mHealth) has adherence demonstrated strong potential to increase Objectives: Analyse effect “Friends Heart” application on knowledge patients. Methods: A randomised controlled trial (RCT) was conducted. tes...

Since their introduction in the 1960s, oral contraceptives have been rapidly accepted as an effective method of contraception, with over 100 million users worldwide. Lower-dose pills have been formulated over the years so that, for the majority, the pill is extremely safe, often with added health benefits. Major risks related to pill use are now also recognised so that women at particular risk ...

BACKGROUND Discontinuation of contraceptive use that is not immediately followed by resumption of use of another method while a woman is at risk is a common cause of unintended pregnancy. STUDY DESIGN We provide new estimates of discontinuation for the pill, injectable, male condom, withdrawal and fertility-awareness-based methods, and identify socioeconomic characteristics associated with di...

The fact t,hat among other changes, menstruation involves bleeding from the blood vessels injured at the shedding of the uterine mucosa has directed special interest to the blood changes which attend the phases of menstrual cycles. Demonstrable fall in the platelet count at the time of menstruation (Pfeiffer and ,Hoff, 1929) and the simultaneous lowering of capillary resistance (Henning, 1924) ...

A certain pill bottle contains m large pills and n small pills initially, where each large pill is equivalent to two small ones. Each day the patient chooses a pill at random, if a small pill is selected, (s)he eats it; otherwise (s)he breaks the selected pill and eats one half, replacing the other half, which thenceforth is considered to be a small pill. (a) What is the expected number of smal...

Substandard, Spurious, Falsely-Labelled, Falsified and Counterfeit (SSFFC) drugs are an emerging public health concern in India. With one of the huge pharmaceutical sectors in the world, India has a varied prevalence of SSSFC drugs ranging from 0.04% to 34% according to various studies. Apart from severe health consequences, SSSFC drugs also weaken community's trust in the health care system. I...

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A young teenager with no known medical history presented to the emergency department (ED) with abrupt onset of palpitations and dizziness. She later had a generalised tonic colonic seizure, and a bout of vomiting containing pills. She admitted to have had an overdose of bupropion pills. A pill count was performed and her total dose ingestion was calculated to be 3.6 g. A 12-l...

BACKGROUND The European CHOICE study was a cross-sectional survey that evaluated women's combined hormonal contraceptive choices before and after contraceptive counseling in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic and Slovakia, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Israel, Russia, and Ukraine. The changes in method selection before and after counseling were reported previously. In this paper w...