background: desirable oxygenation of preterm newborns has particular importance, for this reason different methods have been proposed to improve oxygenation of the newborns; one of these methods is the newborns' position. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of the position of low birth weight neonates on arterial oxygen saturation and heart rate. methods: this interventional ...

STUDY QUESTION Is bilateral tubotubal anastomosis a successful treatment in an outpatient patient population? SUMMARY ANSWER For women wanting children after tubal sterilization, bilateral tubotubal anastomosis is an effective outpatient treatment. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY With the current emphasis in reproductive medicine on high technology procedures, the effectiveness of female surgical ste...

We examined the development of autoantibodies to liver proteins and hepatitis in BALB/c mice thymectomized 2 days after birth and attempted to characterized the immune function of these mice. Autoantibodies to crude liver proteins detected by ELISA were found in 21 (84%) of 25 mice thymectomized 2 days after birth. In these mice, sera of 11 animals showed reactivity with both liver specific pro...

Abstract Life expectancy is widely used and reported; for example, the UN Human Development Index uses life as a key component. But many users of period do not understand interpret demographers do. In particular, almost always over-predicts crude death rate. Indeed, in most observed populations, annual deaths recorded are less than one may expect corresponding stationary population. To explain ...

A detailed clinicopathological analysis of 223 consecutive fetal and neonatal deaths was carried out in Curaçao during 1984 and 1985; this included careful histological examination of 210 infants (94%). The crude death rate was 34.2 per 1000 total births. Malformation was the principal cause of death in 28 cases, antepartum haemorrhage in 19, hypertension in 25, and asphyxia in 35. Death was ca...

Progress in controlling communicable diseases increases the relative importance of noncommunicable diseases, including genetic disorders. In Iran, the development of primary health care over the past 20 years has greatly reduced infant mortality and crude birth rate. Accordingly, in 1991 prevention of non-communicable diseases was added to the primary healthcare programme, and a department for ...

Industrial cities are a particularly dynamic element of nineteenth century Walloon demography. The new slightly hybrid urban model, grown from small rural communities but which never looked like classical cities, was characterised by a very quick demographic growth, resulting from a high number of births and a relatively low mortality together with a relatively high in-migration (Eggerickx, 199...