INTRODUCTION Despite a large number of modern contraceptive methods available in the market today, numerous studies have shown insufficient awareness of young women about these forms for birth control. The aim of this study was to compare characteristics of common use of contraceptives as well as the awareness of hormonal contraception among female students of the Faculty of Medicine and the Fa...

OBJECTIVES To determine the gender, sexual history and reason(s) for visit for under-14s (young people) attending the authors' sexual health clinics. METHODS Analysis of case notes of 242 young people who made a total of 598 visits to a sexual health clinic in Gwent, South Wales, UK between 1 January and 31 December 2003. RESULTS Of the 242 young people studied, 41% were male and males were...

This document will outline new delivery systems and contraceptive formulations, summarize recent advances in emergency contraception, and review the effects of hormonal contraception on cancer risks, cardiovascular disease, and bone.

We investigated variations in gait between women at high and at low conception probability, and how men rated those variations. Women participated in a motion capture study where we recorded the kinematics of their walking patterns. Women who were not using hormonal contraception (n = 19) repeated the study during the late follicular stage and the luteal stage of their menstrual cycle. Using a ...

Ovaries are hormone influence organs and make a base for related diseases. Many other lesions are also seen in ovaries which are not related to hormonal disturbance. Ovarian lesions are not diagnosed in early stages as they are asymptomatic and physically difficult to examine. Though the non neoplastic lesions are very common when compared to neoplastic lesions of the ovary, there are very few ...

Soil is the basic requirement for agriculture crop production and simultaneously microbial activity important to improve soil health healthy growth because communities play an role in building a complex link between plants soil. Microbiomes from plants, extreme environments are naturally gifted with amazing capabilities which significant roles maintenance of global nutrient balance ecosystem fu...

OBJECTIVE To examine bacterial vaginosis as an effect modifier for the association between hormonal contraception and incident HIV infection. DESIGN Serodiscordant couples enrolled in an open longitudinal cohort in Lusaka, Zambia from 1994 to 2012. This analysis was restricted to couples with an HIV-positive man enrolled between1994 and 2002 when a quarterly genital tract examination and HIV ...