background: despite so many unmet sexual health education (she) needs of adolescents, socio-cultural challenges have caused this issue to be ignored in different scoieties. this study investigated iranian female adolescents’ experiences and perceptions with respect to she that they received at schools , and what they really needed, expected, and preferred. materials and methods: in this qualita...

objective: the lack of adequate recognition of health importance of non-hiv reproductive health infections (rhis) in nigeria has led into this study, which was to determine clinical pathogens in non-hiv rhi in nigeria using a tertiary health facility as case study. materials and methods: a nine-year investigation was carried out between 1997 and 2005 on 4047 (n = 1626 males; n = 2421 females) p...

Several studies indicate that in utero and perinatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) induces adverse reproductive effects, but it remains unclear whether such effects may be transmitted to subsequent generations. We therefore investigated the association between maternal exposure to PCBs and reproductive health in male and female offspring over three generations. Mouse dams were fe...

CHEM Trust, founded in 2007, raises awareness of the role that exposure to chemicals may play in ill health. The charity works to improve chemicals legislation and to protect future generations of humans and wildlife. From a human health perspective, CHEM Trust's mission is to ensure that future generations are healthy and can reach their full potential in terms of behaviour, intelligence and a...

Effects of endocrine disruptors on experimental animals and wildlife are well established. Antiandrogens and estrogens cause reproductive disorders, such as cryptorchidism, hypospadias, testicular dysgenesis and subfertility. This raises a natural question whether these disorders in humans are also caused by endocrine disrupters and whether they should alert us of harmful exposures. While we st...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Male reproductive function in the general population has been receiving attention in recent years due to reports of various reproductive and developmental defects, which might be associated with various lifestyle and environmental factors. This study was carried out to determine the role of various lifestyle and environmental factors in male reproduction and their possib...

BACKGROUND Systematic studies on the association between men's sexual dysfunction (low sexual desire, ejaculation disorders, erectile dysfunctions, genital ulcers, testicular disorders, prostate cancer or sexually transmitted infections) and marital conflict are emerging. However, the coping strategies adopted by wives in such circumstances are not commonly reported in the literature. Male sexu...

Ali Shalizar Jalali1*, Mehdi Behfar2 and Alireza Nourian1 1Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran 2Department of Surgery and Diagnostic Imaging, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran *Corresponding author: Ali Shalizar Jalali, Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran, ...

More than 20 years ago, it was suggested that the normal reproductive development of the male embryo may be aVected by exposure to oestrogens, the focus initially being on the mother’s endogenous oestrogen. In 1993, Sharpe and Skakkebaek proposed the hypothesis that increased oestrogen exposure in early life increases the risk of the two genital malformations hypospadias and cryptorchidism, and...

A lengthy new report from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [NIEHS], a federal agency, describes serious deterioration of the male reproductive system in many regions of the world and suggests it may be caused by environmental chemicals that interfere with hormones.[1] The report begins by describing negative trends in men's reproductive health, then describes similar find...