OBJECTIVE To identify the determinants of adequate antenatal care (ANC) utilisation and institutional deliveries among socio-economically disadvantaged migrants living in Delhi, India. METHODS In a cross-sectional survey, 809 rural-urban migrant mothers with a child aged below 2 years were interviewed with a pretested questionnaire. Data on receiving antenatal, delivery and post-natal service...

BACKGROUND Perinatal as well as neonatal mortality record in our country is one of the highest in the world. Home deliveries, lack of adequate facilities, poverty and lack of education are sonme of the important known causes. The present study was planned to determine neonatal mortality in Hazara. METHODS Hospital records of neonatal admissions at Ayub Teaching Hospital (ATH) Abbottabad from ...

Forty five pregnant addicts had attended the National Drug Treatment Centre between 1984-1986. At that time they received intensive counselling, low dose Methadone maintenance and both ante natal and post natal care. Our aim was to follow these women six years later focusing on their drug use and outcome of their children. The women were followed up by chart review, individual interviews and li...

Introduction: Preeclampsia is emergencies in obstetrics, where pregnant women experience health conditions that can be life-threatening and occur during pregnancy, natal post-natal. If this obstetric emergency not treated immediately, it result death the mother also fetus. Understanding care needs of with preeclampsia very important for families because most their lack understanding information...

BACKGROUND Recently, a global commitment has been made to expand access to antiretrovirals (ARVs) in the developing world. However, in many resource-constrained countries the number of individuals infected with HIV in need of treatment will far exceed the supply of ARVs, and only a limited number of health-care facilities (HCFs) will be available for ARV distribution. Deciding how to allocate t...

Pre-reproductive environmental enrichment of female rats influences sensorimotor development and spatial behavior of the offspring, possibly through the changed maternal nurturing. Nevertheless, maternal care could be not the solely responsible for changing offspring developmental trajectories. To disentangle the specific contribution to the transgenerational inheritance of pre- and post-natal ...

Research was conducted on the molecular survey of drug resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria among pregnant women attending ante natal care (ANC) at Maryam Abacha Women and Children Hospital (MAWCH) Sokoto, Nigeria from February, 2020 to May, 2020. Blood samples 200 who came for ANC in were collected Questionnaire administered. Thin thick blood film microscopy mono clonal antibody specific RD...

Background and aims: Depression is an affective (mood) disorder accompanied by the sense of disappointment, incompetence, sense of transgression, fear and sense of humility. Depression is the daily depressed-mood for two weeks. The aim of this study is analysis of the prevalence and effective factors on post-natal depression in women referring to Garmsar city health centers in ...

White-faced capuchin males disperse from their natal group at around 4.5 years of age, but there is much variation in dispersal timing: our youngest confirmed disperser was 19 months and the oldest 11 years old. In this study, we investigate possible factors influencing dispersal decisions in this species. Between 1983 and 2010, 64 males were born into three study groups in Santa Rosa National ...

The presence of teeth at birth (natal teeth) or within a month after delivery (neonatal teeth) is a rare condition. Natal and neonatal teeth are conditions of significant importance to pediatric dentists and pediatricians. This report discusses a case in which a five-day-old infant required extraction of a mobile mandibular natal tooth to avoid the risk of aspiration and interference with feedi...