Objective: To characterize the demographic correlates of IVF availability and utilization.
Design: Demographic analysis of public data.
Setting: Each of the 50 states in the United States was used as ...
IVF Access and UtilizationAssisted Reproductive Technology DemographicsPublic Health Data
Hickey M et al.2009
Open Access
Women's Health (London, England)
Abnormal uterine bleeding imposes major medical, social and financial problems for women, their families and the health services. Abnormal uterine bleeding refers to the regularity, frequency, duratio...
Fehring RJ et al.2009The Journal of Reproductive Medicine
Objective: To determine if an electronic hormonal fertility monitor aided method (EHFM) of family planning is more effective than a cervical mucus only method (CMM) in helping couples to avoid pregnan...
Yeung PP Jr et al.2009Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
Background: Video seems advantageous over traditional text as an educational tool in conceptually-based procedures such as laparoscopy. However, this has never been tested directly.
Objective: The pu...
Duffy JM et al.2009The Cochrane database of systematic reviews
BACKGROUND: Hydrotubation with oil-soluble contrast media for unexplained infertility and adhesiolysis for infertility due to peritubal adhesions are primary procedures that are of recognised benefit....
Background: The incidence of breast cancer is on the rise in India, breast cancer is the second most common malignancy in Indian women.
Aim: The aim of this study was to find out the association of v...
Breast Cancer Risk FactorsBreast CancerCase-Control Study
Background: The copper intrauterine device (IUD) can cause side effects in some women; increased uterine bleeding and pain may cause early removal. Because of simplified reporting from previous resear...
Dolle JM et al.2009Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention : a Publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, Cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology
Little is known about the etiologic profile of triple-negative breast cancer (negative for estrogen receptor/progesterone receptor/human epidermal growth factor), a breast cancer subtype associated wi...
Objective: To assess whether the risk of incident systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is associated with the use of combined oral contraceptives (COCs), because studies of the link between exogenous ho...
Autoimmune DiseaseSystemic Lupus ErythematosusNested Case-Control Study
Among 2,245 women, those who experienced a chemical pregnancy that failed to progress to a clinically recognized pregnancy or a spontaneous abortion on their first IVF cycle were more likely to discon...
OBJECTIVE: To model the cumulative probability of pregnancy among couples with subfertility without a definitive diagnosis, according to different treatment strategies.
DESIGN: A beta distribution of...
Conservative vs Assisted ReproductionCumulative Pregnancy ProbabilitySimulation Study
Stead LA et al.2009
Open Access
Breast Cancer Research : BCR
Introduction: We investigated clinical and pathologic features of breast cancers (BC) in an unselected series of patients diagnosed in a tertiary care hospital serving a diverse population. We focused...
Pallone SR et al.2009Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM
Modern fertility awareness-based methods (FABMs) of family planning have been offered as alternative methods of family planning. Billings Ovulation Method, the Creighton Model, and the Symptothermal M...
Review ArticlesPhysician Knowledge and TrainingFamily Planning Applications
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate proliferative phase endometrial development in a heterogeneous infertility population.
DESIGN: Retrospective study.
SETTING: University-based infertility practice.
PATIENT(S)...
Costantino D et al.2009European review for medical and pharmacological sciences
To investigate the effects of treatment with Myo-inositol (an insulin sensitizing drug), on circulating insulin, glucose tolerance, ovulation and serum androgens concentrations in women with the Polyc...
Recent research has documented a variety of ovulatory cues in humans, and in many nonhuman species, the vocal channel provides cues of reproductive state. We collected two sets of vocal samples from 6...
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether thin endometria can be improved by increasing uterine radial artery (uRA) blood flow.
DESIGN: A prospective observational study.
SETTING: University hospital and city g...
Ozgoli G et al.2009Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
OBJECTIVES: To compare the effects of ginger, mefenamic acid, and ibuprofen on pain in women with primary dysmenorrhea.
METHODS: This was a double-blind comparative clinical trial conducted from Sept...
Relatively few Catholic couples in the United States use modern methods of natural family planning (NFP). So too, few Catholic physicians and health professionals prescribe the use of NFP methods for ...
NFP Efficacy and EffectivenessCatholic Healthcare IntegrationBarriers and Adoption
Background: With >1% of US births occurring following use of assisted reproductive technology (ART), it is critical to examine whether ART is associated with birth defects.
Methods: We analyzed data ...
BACKGROUND: Outcomes of in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment are traditionally reported as pregnancies per IVF cycle. However, a couple's primary concern is the chance of a live birth over an entire...
Two types of cervical mucus are recognized, oestrogenic and gestagenic. These are constituted by different subtypes, and their characteristics change depending on variations in the hormonal levels and...
Brosens JJ et al.2009American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Menstruation is widely viewed as serving no purpose other than to reinitiate the endometrial cycle in the absence of pregnancy. Yet, it is striking that cyclic endometrial decidualization followed by ...
Evolutionary Function of MenstruationEndometrial DecidualizationMenstrual Preconditioning Theory
Background: Although the benefit of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) at risk for sudden cardiac arrest is well established, there...
Canadian ART Register (CARTR) annual report for 2008. A total of 15,000 cycles was reported to CARTR. Voluntary professional society database operated by the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society.
BACKGROUND Hormonal effects of soy and isoflavones have been investigated in numerous trials with equivocal findings. We aimed to systematically assess the effects of soy and isoflavones on circulatin...
Executive Summary
Catholic Health is a ministry of the Church. Through the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs), the Church reaffirms its commitment to the ministr...
Ethical and Religious DirectivesCatholic Teaching on ProcreationInstitutional Partnerships and Cooperation
Lee DS2009Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology (or NOT_FOUND if referencing a different publication)
This paper empirically assesses the wage effects of the Job Corps program, one of the largest federally funded job training programs in the U.S. Even with the aid of a randomized experiment, the impac...
Valeggia C et al.2009American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council
Lactation has long been recognized as a major determinant of interbirth intervals. The temporal pattern of nursing has been proposed as the mechanism behind lactational amenorrhea. We present a new mo...
Annual report (Jahrbuch) of the Deutsches IVF-Register (DIR) for treatment year 2008. DIR is the German national IVF/ICSI registry, founded 1982 — the oldest continuously operating ART registry. Volun...
International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technology et al.2009Human reproduction (Oxford, England)
International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technology(1); de
Mouzon J, Lancaster P, Nygren KG, Sullivan E, Zegers-Hochschild F, Mansour R,
Ishihara O, Adamson D.
Author informatio...
Nyboe Andersen A et al.2009Human reproduction (Oxford, England)
18. Assisted reproductive technology and intrauterine inseminations in Europe, 2005: results generated from European registers by ESHRE: ESHRE. The European IVF Monitoring Programme (EIM), for the Eur...
Ecochard R et al.2008
Open Access
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology : RB&E
BACKGROUND: To assess the amount of variability in ovarian follicular growth rate and maximum follicular diameter related to different centers, women and cycles of the same women in a multicenter obse...
Rosenberg L et al.2008American Journal of Epidemiology
Oral contraceptive (OC) use has been linked to increased risk of breast cancer, largely on the basis of studies conducted before 1990. In the Case-Control Surveillance Study, a US hospital-based case-...
Roberts SC et al.2008Proceedings. Biological sciences
Previous studies in animals and humans show that genes in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) influence individual odours and that females often prefer odour of MHC-dissimilar males, perhaps to...
Harris MA et al.2008The Journal of Adolescent Health : Official Publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
Purpose: Studies from around the world indicate a trend toward younger ages of menarche. The extent of this trend in the Canadian population is unknown, and the relationship to later-life health indic...
Secular TrendsBMI and Metabolic AssociationsPuberty Timing
Peiqi Chen et al.2008Journal of Bone and Mineral Research : the Official Journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
Vertebral fractures are the most common osteoporotic fracture, and patients with prevalent vertebral fractures have a greater risk of future fractures. However, radiographically determined vertebral f...
An Act to amend the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and the Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985; to make provision about the persons who in certain circumstances are to be treated in law as th...
Fehring RJ et al.2008MCN. The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing
Purpose: To determine the effectiveness of the Marquette Method (MM) of natural family planning (NFP) as a method of avoiding pregnancy. STUDY DESIGN AND
Methods: This was a 12-month retrospective ev...
Lee E et al.2008Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention : a Publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, Cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology
Background: Multiparity and breast-feeding reduce breast cancer risk, whereas oral contraceptive use may slightly increase breast cancer risk in the general population. However, the effects of these f...
Breast Cancer RiskBRCA Mutation CarriersCancer Risk
Pregnancy could be associated with a state of oxidative stress that could initiate and propagate a cascade of changes that may lead to pregnancy wastage. This process of oxidative stress may be suppre...
Medical TreatmentAntioxidant TherapyOxidative Stress Management
Oral contraceptives (OC) are among the most frequently used drugs in the world with approximately 100 million women worldwide taking OC. In contrast to the active controversy surrounding hormone repla...