California is home to more than one out of eight American women of reproductive age. Because California has a large, diverse and growing population, national statistics do not necessarily describe the reproductive health of California women. This article presents risk for pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among women in California based on the California Women's Health Survey. Over ...

background and objectives: women reproductive system is a suitable environment for growth of various pathogen and nonpathogenic microorganisms. mycoplasmataceae is a family of bacteria which cause oligosymptomatic genital infections. the complications caused by these bacteria may lead to infertility in women. the aim of this study was detection of genital mycoplasma hominis, ureaplasmaurealytic...

BACKGROUND Studies have found that reproductive factors might have a variable effect on the occurrence of breast cancer (BC) according to the existence or not of a family history of BC. The effect of a family history of BC on the risk of BC may also vary according to the age at diagnosis and the degree of kinship. This may confound the relation between familial risk and reproductive factors. A ...