background: the presence of small intestine in the radiation field during pelvic cancers treatment causes an interruption in radiotherapy. a non-invasive method was developed to exclude small intestine during conventional radiotherapy. materials and methods: the incidence of the radiation therapy interruption is highly dependent upon the area of the small intestine included in the portals and i...

Brazil occupies half of the South American landmass, and is the fifth largest country in the world. The current population estimate is 207 million. Demographic and epidemiological changes, as well as nutritional transition, have affected mortality and morbidity in the country. The leading causes of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in 2010 were ischaemic heart disease, interpersonal violen...

Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank UNFPA for providing funding and critical support for this work. We also wish to also thank Ashilan Kes for her research support, especially in pulling together the matrix of methods. Both Maria Beatriz Orlando and Srinvasan Rghavendran gave us excellent feedback and suggestions on the costing framework. Margo Young and Sandra Bunch provided edito...

Intimate partner violence is a common source of physical, psychological, and emotional morbidity. In the United States, approximately 1.5 million women and 834,700 men annually are raped and/or physically assaulted by an intimate partner. Women are more likely than men to be injured, sexually assaulted, or murdered by an intimate partner. Studies suggest that one in four women is at lifetime ri...

Few studies attempt to examine individual methods of domestic abuse. The objectives of this study are to evaluate strangulation as a method of domestic violence abuse: to determine the incidence of strangulation occurrence within the cycle of domestic violence, the subjective medical symptoms experienced by victims of intimate partner strangulation, and the elective utilization of health care f...

BACKGROUND Domestic or Interpersonal Violence (IPV) remains a major global problem often resulting in morbidity and mortality. The present study was conducted to determine the scope of deaths related to domestic violence in the Khyber Pakhunkhwa province, Pakistan. METHODS Data were collected on all reported female fatalities due to domestic violence for the years 2009-2011 from the records o...

background: domestic violence is a serious threat to the physical and mental health of women. the aim of the present study was to find and compare the frequency of domestic violence between methamphetamine users, patients with psychiatric disorders, and healthy people. methods: in this analytical cross-sectional study, methamphetamine users (n=30) and patients with psychiatric disorders (n=30) ...

Background Interpersonal violence is the third leading cause of death in Europe in 15 to 29 year olds, accounting for 14,899 fatalities.[1] In Liverpool UK, a novel prevention and intervention training scheme has been established to decrease morbidity and mortality amongst young people. Medical Students provide high risk young people with the skills, knowledge and confidence to manage victims i...