Ann Saudi Med 2006;26(4):306-309 Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been in clinical use for more than two decades. At the time of introduction of this important diagnostic tool, there were many concerns about its safety and the effects of the different types of magnetic fields utilized in MRI on the body tissues. Safety of MRI in pregnancy, however, was and still is one of the important conc...

worldwide, more than 185,000 children under 18 years die from road traffic accidents annually (each four minutes a child death occurred due to road crashes); with most casualties from developing countries. 95% of road traffic fatalities among children occur in developing countries. many more children are injured, often severely, and suffering from different disabilities. road accidents cause ex...

background: prevention of unwanted pregnancy is a key strategy to improve the women’s health through spacing of birth and avoiding pregnancy at high-risk maternal ages. unmet need by definition is the percentage of fecund married women who are not using contraceptives while they do not want to get pregnant. they do this due to unavailable quality services, limited choice of methods, lack of inf...

We introduce variants of Barvinok’s algorithm for counting lattice points in polyhedra. The new algorithms are based on irrational signed decomposition in the primal space and the construction of rational generating functions for cones with low index. We give computational results that show that the new algorithms are faster than the existing algorithms by a large factor.

5.1. Use of prescription drugs during pregnancy (Studies I and II) 40 5.1.1. Reimbursements during pregnancy and lactation (Study I) 40 5.1.2. Reimbursements according to drug safety categorization (Study II) 44 5.1.2.1. Polytherapy 47 5.2. Safety of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors during pregnancy (Study III) 47 5.2.1. General characteristics of the study population 47 5.2.2. First-tri...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation (TEAS) on pregnancy rates (PR) in women undergoing ET. DESIGN Prospective, randomized, single-blinded placebo-controlled clinical trial. SETTING Research and laboratory facilities. PATIENT(S) A total of 309 patients, less than 45 years old, undergoing cryopreservation embryos transplant or fresh cycle IVF w...

results the result of the present study confirmed wide use of herbal drugs use during pregnancy that need to report the safety concerns of these drugs during pregnancy. background investigations across the world confirm dramatic increment in the use of complementary and alternative medicine in pregnant women. the most important aspect is lack of awareness of pregnant women about potential effec...

BACKGROUND Delivery is one of the most stressful events in women's life. Excessive anxiety, in turn, increases delivery and pregnancy complications. Mother's positive experience of delivery leads to more effective maternal-fetal attachment in the first few hours of birth. OBJECTIVES The present study aimed to compare the effects of acupressure at two different acupoints on anxiety level and m...

To the Editor: There are no published prospective, comparative studies examining the safety of duloxetine in pregnancy, and, to date, there are only 2 case reports describing its use in pregnancy: (1) a 29-year-old woman was treated with duloxetine for depression during the second half of pregnancy and gave birth to a full-term healthy infant,1 and (2) an infant was observed after birth with si...