BACKGROUND Until recently, premarital examination for both men and women was a legal requirement before marriage in China. Researchers have carried out surveys of attendees' sexual activity, pregnancy and abortion before their marriages, trying to map out reproductive health needs in China, according to this unique population-based data. To systematically identify, appraise and summarise all av...

conclusions misoprostol plus letrozole was more effective for inducing abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy compared to misoprostol alone. results the complete abortion rate was 69.7% in the misoprostol and letrozole group and 30.3% in the misoprostol group. incomplete abortion was 32.4% in the misoprostol and letrozole group, and 67.6% in the misoprostol group (p = 0.004). bleeding, ce...

background: recurrent abortion is defined as three or more consecutive pregnancy losses. we aimed to determine the relationship between male sperm parameters and hypo-osmotic swelling score and recurrent abortion. we also studied whether washing of spermatozoa and intrauterine insemination in patients with recurrent miscarriage and low score hypo-osmotic swelling test in male partners could imp...

Ribosomes elongate at a nonuniform rate during translation. Theoretical models and experiments disagree on the in vivo determinants of elongation rate and the mechanism by which elongation rate affects protein levels. To resolve this conflict, we measured transcriptome-wide ribosome occupancy under multiple conditions and used it to formulate a whole-cell model of translation in E. coli. Our mo...

Background Many physicians are perplexed with an acute increase in the rate of pregnancies and live birth, and a decrease rate of abortions among the women in the Washington DC area. Healthcare managers are analyzing the admission and discharge data to understand this trend. There are many factors such as marital status, age, income, health problems during pregnancy, insurance coverage and othe...

OBJECTIVE To test whether there is an association between abortion legislation and maternal mortality outcomes after controlling for other factors thought to influence maternal health. DESIGN Population-based natural experiment. SETTING AND DATA SOURCES Official maternal mortality data from 32 federal states of Mexico between 2002 and 2011. MAIN OUTCOMES Maternal mortality ratio (MMR), MM...

Complications of induced abortion remain high in developing countries and among the leading causes of maternal mortality especially in Nigeria where abortion law is restrictive. Objective is to determine the prevalence, socio-demographic characteristics, complications of induced abortion and the contribution of induced abortion to maternal mortality in our center. This was a retrospective study...

OBJECTIVE To compare the abortion rate and preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) after amniocentesis in women who have undergone antibiotic prophylaxis with uterine fibroids and control. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study using the Antibiotic Prophylaxis before Second-Trimester Genetic Amniocentesis trial database carried out between January 1999 and December 2005 at the Artemisia Feta...

The availability of new medical techniques for induced abortion in the first trimester enables observation of the incidence and nature of embryonic and fetal abnormalities in early pregnancy. 506 women, presenting to the Liverpool (England) Women's Hospital in 1994-96 for induced abortion before 9 weeks of gestation, were given oral mifepristone followed by oral misoprostol. Fetal tissue was ...