recognizing the advantages of primary care as a means of improving the entire health system, this text comments on reforms of publicly funded primary health centers, and the rapid development of private forprofit providers in sweden. many goals and expectations are connected to such reforms, which equally require critical analyses of scarce resources, professional trust/motivation and business ...

primary colorectal lymphoma (pcl) is a rare condition that accounts for a small percentage of all gastrointestinal (gi) malignancies. there are several reports in the literature regarding the most common features of pcl. however, primary lymphoma in the rectosigmoid junction has been rarely reported. our case was a 67-year-old male who presented with non-specific symptoms of bowel obstruction w...

Dietary habits in young women determine their individual quality of life (QOL) in not only the present life style but also subsequent middle or old age and should be evaluated from the perspective of total benefit throughout the entire life [1,2]. One of the most common nutritional issues among young women is poor energy intake and/or inappropriate food selection due to dietary limitations for ...

The Non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are one of the most widely prescribed drugs, commonly used for rheumatoid diseases and illnesses accompanied by pain. However, the use of NSAIDs is often limited by the gastrointestinal toxicity. The NSAIDs inhibit cyclooxygenase (COX), which is an enzyme in the prostaglandin synthetic pathway, thereby decreasing pain, fever, and inflammation. T...

BACKGROUND Citrus aurantium is a small citrus tree, with scented white flowers. The C. aurantium is used in Asian herbal medicine primarily to treat digestive problems. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study is to investigate the effect of C. aurantium flower's aqueous extract on uterine contraction in presence of some known uterus stimulants. MATERIALS AND METHODS In experimental study 30 virgin...

OBJECTIVE To identify prognostic factors for pain and endometrioma recurrence after complete laparoscopic excision of endometrioma(s). DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING Tertiary care university hospital. PATIENT(S) One-hundred sixty-six consecutive women affected by uni- or bilateral ovarian endometrioma(s). INTERVENTION(S) Laparoscopic conservative treatment of endometrio...

This article reviews the literature on management of chronic cyclical pelvic pain (CCPP). Electronic resources including Medline, PubMed, CINAHL, The Cochrane Library, Current Contents, and EMBASE were searched using MeSH terms including all subheadings and keywords: "cyclical pelvic pain", "chronic pain", "dysmenorrheal", "nonmenstrual pelvic pain", and "endometriosis". There is a dearth of hi...

The medicinal use of black cohosh (Actaea racemosa or Cimicifuga racemosa) has a long herhal tradition in North America and Europe. A member ofthe huttercup family, black cohosh is native to the eastern part of North America and found as far west as Arkansas. Black cobosh was used by Native Americans for a range of disorders, including menstrual cramps, labor pains, general malaise, malaria, ki...

Endometriosis is a common gynecologic disease, which is characterized by the presence of uterine endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity. It is associated with several complications, including pelvic pain, dysmenorrheal and infertility. Endometriosis has drawn wide attention due to its close involvement of infertility in various ways. There are several factors hindering gynecological doct...

Let R be a commutative ring and M be an R-module. We say that M is fully primary, if every proper submodule of M is primary. In this paper, we state some characterizations of fully primary modules. We also give some characterizations of rings over which every module is fully primary, and of those rings over which there exists a faithful fully primary module. Furthermore, we will introduce some ...