Family planning, according to WHO (world health organization) expert commite 1970 is action that helps couples avoid unwanted pregnancies, getting birth highly desired, set the interval between pregnancies and determine number of children in family (Sulistyawati, 2018). Objective To relationship research Mom Weight Loss with use hormonal control village Pekan Tebih Puskesmas Rokan Hulu. The met...

BACKGROUND The multinational CHOICE (Contraceptive Health Research Of Informed Choice Experience) study evaluated the effects of structured counseling on women's contraceptive decisions, their reasons for making those decisions, and their perceptions of combined hormonal contraceptive (CHC) methods in eleven countries. The aim of this paper to present data from the 1,802 women participating in ...

Historically the treatment armamentarium for secretory pituitary adenomas included neurosurgery, medical management, fractionated radiotherapy and recently gamma knife surgery (GKS), the goal of this study is to evaluate the efficacy, safety and role of gamma knife surgery for treatment of secretory pituitary adenomas regarding hormonal and adenoma size control, between mid of 2005 and 2012 a r...

In a recent issue of the Journal, Beral et al. (1) reported on the Million Women Study (MWS) and confirmed that use of hormonal therapy either before or after menopause is not safe in terms of breast cancer risk. The false idea that hormonal therapy use before or after menopause is not associated with increased breast cancer risk has distracted from the increases in breast cancer risk and cance...

background: atrazine (atr) is used as an agriculture herbicide worldwide. it has been shown that atr adversely affect the reproductive system in rodents. in this study we aimed to evaluate the impact of chronic exposure to atrazine (atr) on male testicular tissue, sperm parameters, serum level of total thiol molecules (ttm) and malodialdehyde (mda) content of testes. methods: to follow-up this ...

Women's health nurses and nurse practitioners have a unique opportunity to provide high-quality primary and preventive care and play a critical role in coordinating and delivering effective contraceptive methods. The strategies and techniques that they routinely employ during counseling and education can help improve women's adoption and appropriate use of contraceptive methods.

[This corrects the article on p. 424 in vol. 6, PMID: 26113852.].

objective: to compare the hormonal status in postmenopausal women with and without metabolic syndrome. materials and methods: in this cross sectional study 110 postmenopausal women were enrolled. participants completed a questionnaire and underwent a medical exam and serum evaluation for serum lipids including cholesterol (chol), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (hdl), low density lipoprote...