Controversy surrounds the association between bacterial vaginosis (BV) and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Women (N = 1,140) were ascertained at five US centers, enrolled (1999-2001), and followed up for a median of 3 years. Serial vaginal swabs were obtained for Gram's stain and cultures. PID was defined as 1) histologic endometritis or 2) pelvic pain and tenderness plus oral temperature >3...

The Herbal Vendors are the mobile tribal medicineman seen selling crude medicinal plants and their products on the busy streets of many Indian cities. They give herbal treatment for many human ailments and diseases especially the more difficult and chronic ones. They claim to have herbal remedies for some gynaecological disorders in women such as Menorrhagia, leucorrhoea and also to restore fer...

BACKGROUND This study aimed toanalyze the risk behavior for cervical cancer (CC) and the human papillomavirus (HPV) prevalence and resolution among women who received care through the private healthcare network of a municipality in southern Brazil. MATERIALS AND METHODS This descriptive and retrospective study was conducted with 25 women aged 20 to 59 years who received care through the priva...

busy practitioner, as a handy book of reference. The significance of any particular symptom is here shown, without the delay of having to refer to text-books or monographs. The book is alphabetically arranged under headings such as follows (taken at random throughout the book) : abdominal pain ; abortion ; fatty stools ; hemiplegia ; leucorrhoea ; pain ; peritonitis; rheumatism; risus sardonicu...

Feminists have been heard to say that the late entry of women into the ranks of the medical profession has meant that, left to the tender mercies of mere men, the ills to which female flesh is heir have not been given the attention which they deserved. Our knowledge, for example, of the cause and prevention of mammary carcinoma seems to have made little advance since Ramazzini reported in 1713 ...

Douching has been linked to gonococcal or chlamydial cervicitis and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in retrospective studies. The authors conducted a 1999-2004 prospective observational study of 1,199 US women who were at high risk of acquiring chlamydia and were followed for up to 4 years. Cervical Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis were detected from vaginal swabs by nucleic ac...

Cochlospermum regium (Mart. and Schr.) Pilger, popularly known as "algodãozinho do campo", is a medicinal plant that grows in the Cerrado of Brazil. This plant has been used in traditional medicine against various diseases such as leucorrhoea, gastritis and ulcers. It has also been effective in treating skin problems like pimples, boils and blotches. In the present study, the in vivo antimutage...

"FEMALE PILLS" or other internal medicines for "complaints peculiar to females" formed a small but distinct group among the medicines advertised in eighteenthcentury newspapers. There were, for instance, six such preparations found in a sample of Bath newspapers in the second half of the eighteenth century and one of them, Hooper's Female Pills, was the fourth most frequently advertised among t...

Desquamative inflammatory vaginitis is a poorly understood chronic vaginitis with an unknown etiology. Symptoms of desquamative inflammatory vaginitis include copious yellowish discharge, vulvovaginal discomfort, and dyspareunia. Cervical ectropion, the presence of glandular columnar cells on the ectocervix, has not been reported as a cause of desquamative inflammatory vaginitis. Although cervi...

BACKGROUND Our purpose was to clarify the effect of hormone replacement therapy (H.R.T.) for patients with stress incontinence. METHODS We investigated 25 postmenopausal women, age 54-73 years, with a leakage volume is less than 15 g/day. In this study 0.625 mg of conjugated estrogen and 2.5 mg of medroxyprogesterone acetate were administrated for a total of 4 months. A clinical evaluation, m...