©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(3) Introduction The terms ‘repeat abortion’ and ‘repeat aborter’ appear in the scientific literature from the early 1970s onwards. To begin with, the pejorative term ‘abortion recidivism’ was used by some.1 The initial concern appeared to be that women might be using abortion instead of contraception as a means of fertility control, with connotati...

This article examines the debate among physicians over abortion, from the turn of the nineteenth century through to the 1930s, especially in the Academia Nacional de Medicina (National Academy of Medicine). Considered a crime, abortion was seen as something that threatened the dominance of husbands over wives and the control over medical practice in relation to the female body. Midwives, seen a...

1New Halfa Hospital, New Halfa, Sudan. 2Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan. Received: 14/07/03; accepted: 28/10/03 ABSTRACT A prospective clinical study in eastern Sudan described the efficacy and toxicity of quinine in early pregnancy in mothers with chloroquine-resistant falciparum malaria. Twenty-six pregnant Sudanese women in their first trimester (mean gestational...

Background: Spontaneous miscarriage is defined as an involuntary termination of pregnancy before 20 th week of gestation or spontaneous expulsion of fetus below a fetal weight of 500 gm. The introduction of ultrasound into the obstetrical practice has been extremely useful in providing better understanding of the etiology of the first trimester spontaneous abortion and a basis for its clinical ...

Pyrenacantha staudtii is a medicinal plant used widely in the West African sub-region particularly in Nigeria for the treatment of threatened abortion and dysmenorrhea. This study reports for the first time the chemical isolation and characterization of 3-carbomethoxypyridine from one of the active fractions of the methanolic extract of Pyrenacantha staudtii leaves. The crude methanolic extract...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have investigated the impact of occupational risk factors on health outcomes among physicians. However, few studies have investigated the effects on pregnancy outcomes among physicians. In this study, we examined the association between working hours during pregnancy and pregnancy complications among physicians. METHODS A cross-sectional study was based on a survey...

BACKGROUND Gynecological and early pregnancy complaints (GEPC)/lower abdominal complaints (LAC) are common in female patients seeking medical advice or treatments. Clinical limitations of GEPC or LAC are better resolved through appropriate laboratory and imaging investigation, among which the ultrasound examination (USS) is one. AIM To determine the distribution/clinical pattern of female pat...

The findings of a previous epidemiological study on oral clefts (599 children) were tested in an independent sample of 194 children, using the same source as for the previous study (Finnish Register of Congenital Malformations). Several of the earlier results--such as seasonal variation and associations between clefts and parental age, social factors, and emotional stress--were not reproduced. ...