Plasma concentrations of low molecular weight copper-containing components are known to increase in response to various diseases such as arthritis, epilepsy, and cancer. Each of these diseases is recognized as having inflammatory components. Experiments on animals have shown that administration of low molecular weight copper complexes produced anti-inflammatory effects. Based on these results i...

Hormone replacement therapy by pellet implantation has been used with great success in the United States, Europe and Australia since 1938 and found to be superior to other methods of hormone delivery (Greenblatt 49, Mishnell 41, Cantrill 84, Stanczyk 88). It is not experimental. Pellets deliver consistent, physiologic levels of hormones and avoid the fluctuations of hormone levels seen with oth...

Descriptive, exploratory and qualitative study, carried out through the Delphi Technique, with a sample of 32 obstetrics specialist nurses working in 3 hospitals and 9 primary health care centers in the district of Oporto, Northern Portugal. The purposes of this work were: 1. to identify a group of nurses' ideas and consensual conceptions about Childbirth Preparation; 2. to know which informati...

Radiotelemetry and archival temperature loggers were used to reconstruct the thermal experience of adult spring Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in the highly regulated Willamette River system in Oregon. The study population is threatened and recovery efforts have been hampered by episodically high prespawn mortality that is likely temperature mediated. Over three years, 310 salmon wer...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between time of postpartum discharge and symptoms indicative of complications during the first postpartum week. MATERIALS AND METHODS Women with vaginal delivery at a Mexico City public hospital, without complications before the hospital discharge, were interviewed seven days after delivery. Time of postpartum discharge was classified as early (<24 hours)...

parasitaemia to 0-5%. Forty eight hours after admission her temperature was normal and no parasites were detectable in further films. The quinine was then continued orally for 10 days at a dose of 600 mg every 12 hours. Her subsequent antenatal course was uncomplicated. Films remained negative for malarial parasites. Four weeks after her admission she was readmitted in spontaneous labour that r...

Volvulus in puerperium is a rare event. We present a case of cecal volvulus following normal vaginal delivery that ended with cecal gangrene and hemicolectomy.