Abstract Study question Was the incidence of endometriosis in women with a recent history genital infection, pelvic surgery, or both increased? Summary answer The inflammation resulting from infection and surgical injury may play role developing endometriosis. What is known already Endometriosis multifactorial disease, considered core pathology. Inflammation occurs due to pathogenic tissue inju...

This paper examines the politics and practices of drug evaluation in Bra z i l . It tra c e s the history of AIDS activists’ influence on the organization of modern clinical trials and their scientific ra t i o n a l e . Using the Me rck indinavir trial as a case study, the authors discuss how org a n i zed civil society has developed strategies to intervene in the course of drug evaluation tri...

This paper provides new estimates of capital inputs in the Chinese economy. Estimates are made for the total economy (1953-2003), for the industrial sector (1978-2003) and for the manufacturing sector (1985-2003). The estimates for industry and manufacturing are broken down by thirty regions. The main contribution of this paperlies in constructing hitherto unvailable estimates of capital inputs...

We discuss several general aspects of the free energy of the standard model at high temperatures. In particular the Clausius-Clapeyron equation is shown to yield a relation between the latent heat and the jump in the order parameter. The free energy is calculated as function of temperature in resummed perturbation theory to two-loop order. A new resummation procedure is proposed in which the sy...

A dose of 1.5 micrograms/kg of MCI-028, human corticotropin-releasing hormone (hCRH), was administered intravenously to 38 children with non-endocrine short stature with normal function in the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis and to 71 children with a disorder in the same axis. Blood levels of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and cortisol were determined to evaluate the axis. The 95%...

Methods Miss H.B, 30 years old, with a history of a psoriasis in the father. The patient was followed up for two years for a histologically confirmed sebopsoriasis. She received various therapies, initially put on moisturizers and Imidazoles but with no improvement, then on dermocorticoids and vitamin D derivatives. Treatment with UVB phototherapy could not be achieved, given the professional c...