This paper presents an alternat i ve approach to research in learning disabilities among adolescents and young adults. The author proposes that low achieving adolescents l abeled 11 learning disabled .. can and should play a role in research efforts in which they are involved. While much research focuses on educational interventions following basic research formats, research described in this p...

OBJECTIVES Suboptimal medication adherence for infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) results in poor clinical outcomes and ongoing infectivity. Directly observed therapy (DOT) is now standard of care for TB treatment monitoring but has a number of limitations. We aimed to develop and evaluate a smartphone-based system to facilitate remotely observed therapy via transmission of videos ra...

CONTEXT Oral contraceptive users' risk of accidental pregnancy may be higher than it should be, because of inconsistent pill-taking. However, few reliable data are available on pill users' everyday experiences with their method, especially characteristics that may affect consistency of use. METHODS Two months after initiating or resuming oral contraceptive use, a nationwide sample of 943 wome...

This study to evaluate the effect of hormone replacement therapy ( HRT ) and low-dose combinated oral pill on skin thickness , lipid profile and blood chemistry on menopausal woman.This study was carried out in one year randomized prospective study. 36 women were divided into 18 women receiving HRT and the other 18 receiving low-dose oral pill. The result of this study showed an increase in ski...

OBJECTIVE There is much interest in the role of dietary protein for weight control. However, there remains a need to characterize individual determinants of the thermogenic effects of protein. This study aimed to investigate the influence of menstrual cycle phase and the combined, monophasic oral contraceptive pill on the thermogenic response to a standardized high-protein (HP) versus normal-pr...

CONTEXT Oral contraceptives are the most popular form of reversible contraception used in developed countries. Their efficacy depends on how consistently and correctly they are used. METHODS The incidence of inconsistent pill use was estimated from data from a random sample of 1,234 pill users who participated in a French population-based survey in 2000. Multivariate logistic regressions were...

different contraceptive methods are used by breastfeeding mothers. to investigate the effects of progestogen - only contraceptives on human milk components, a non-randomized, follow-up study was carried out in iran (varamin) on 140 breastfeeding women, 51 of whom used progestogenonly contraception including progestogen-only pills (pop) or depo-medroxyprogesterone acetate (dmpa), and 89 used non...

BACKGROUND Nonadherence to prescribed regimens for opioid analgesic agents contributes to increasing opioid abuse and overdose death. Opioids are frequently prescribed on an as-needed basis, placing the responsibility to determine opioid dose and frequency with the patient. There is wide variability in physician prescribing patterns because of the lack of data describing how patients actually u...

Background: New antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and improved formulations and coformulations of existing ARVs are actively promoted to diminish a patient’s pill burden and to minimise the opportunity for mismatched dosing, although the effect of these advances is poorly understood. We determine how these changes affect the total daily pill burden (TDPB) for ARV and other drug use over a 20-year peri...