Background: Hirsutism, a common clinical condition, not onlycauses cosmetic concern but may also be a sign of underlyingdisease. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is an importantand common cause of hirsutism. In fact, many women withPCOS present as hirsutism. This study assessed young Kashmiriwomen presenting as hirsutism, for ultrasonographic evidence ofpolycystic ovaries (PCO), in addition to ...

multiple sclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease of central nervous system.women are more susceptible to this disease. one of the obvious clinical complaints in women with multiple sclerosis specially treated with beta interferones is menstrual cycle irregularity. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of menstrual irregularities and probable changes in blood levels of relate...

BACKGROUND Migraine is a common headache disorder that affects mostly women. In half of these, migraine is menstrually associated, and ranges from completely asymptomatic to frequent pain throughout pregnancy. METHODS The aim of the study was to define the pattern (frequency, intensity, analgesics use) of migrainous headaches among women with and without menstural migraine (MM) during pregnan...

background: the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of arterial blood gases (abgs) in determining the type of intoxication. methods: medical charts of all patients who had referred to the toxicology ward of baharloo hospital between january 2009 and december 2009 were evaluated. after excluding the patients with multi-drug toxicity, data, including age, sex, type of intoxication (the...

background and objective : poor sleep, poor quality of sleep and sleepiness are among the common problems as-sociated with learning, memory and educational performance in children and adolescents. considering the lack of pre-vious literature in this field, especially in the city of yazd, iran, a number of high-school students of the city participat-ed in a study to assess sleep problems and inf...