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Background: Personal beliefs about sexual attitudes and rights likely affect reproductive health behaviors. We examined the prevalence and predictors of low sexual assertiveness (SA) among sexually active females across three age groups (14-17 yo, 18-21 yo, and 22-26 yo).Methods: 904 white, black, and Mexican-American…

This article reviews the history of dental therapy as it has led up to currently available options for the treatment of sleep-related breathing disorders with an emphasis on oral appliance therapy. Over the last 20 years and in particular the last 5 to 7 years the contribution as well as the effectiveness of oral appli…

Over the last 5 years a number of articles have been published on gene therapy for a range of diseases. The initial tone of a number of these articles evoked high expectations, particularly from the public. Over the last 2-3 years data from these studies have begun to filter through and, perhaps not surprisingly, initi…

Experiences in pancreatic surgery revealed substantial mortality decrease in pancreatic resections and these procedure became treatment of the first choice for resectable pancreatic tumors in last ten years. Our results support this experience, we performed pancreatic resections in 51% of 155 patients we operated on in…

A report is given on the therapy and results of 16 men with a mammary carcinoma during the last 15 years. The analysis shows the dependence of therapeutic treatment and prognosis of the state of tumour, especially of the metastases in regional lymphnodes. By applying a combined surgical-radiological treatment a surviva…

This paper examines the spontaneous evolution of original work in family practice as published in The Journal of Family Practice over the 15-year period since it began publication in 1974. An analysis was carried out by principal content and type of paper for the last five years in a manner comparable to an earlier ana…

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: From 1983 to 1986, 156 alumina/polyethylene combination hip arthroplasties (131 patients) were performed at the Henri Mondor Hospital. Before 1983, the stainless-steel/polyethylene combination was performed. In this follow-up study, the outcome of the first 156 consecutive alumine-polyethylene com…

A sample of 190 male and female "high school" students completed a sleep questionnaire for the first time when they were 10 to 14 years old. The survey was repeated five times at 2 year intervals. Ninety-three subjects answered the questionnaire each time. Subjective sleep need was assessed by the indicated wish for mo…

OBJECTIVES: We currently see an increase of demand of vasectomy reversion, mainly due to the wish of recovering fertility. METHODS: We review 21 cases of vasovasostomy performed at our department over the last 5 years with the single layer technique under optical magnification, comparing our results with those from bi…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the short-term effectiveness of percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy (PELD) in treatment of buttock pain associated with lumbar disc herniation. METHODS: Between June 2015 and May 2016, 36 patients with buttock pain associated with lumbar disc herniation were treated with PELD. Of 36 cases,…

OBJECTIVE: To assess personal, professional, medical, and scientific educational characteristics and issues reported by pediatricians. METHODS: Cross-sectional study based on an online survey including 614 pediatricians who graduated in the last 15 years at a University Pediatric Department in Brazil. RESULTS: The re…

In Veneto, like in Italy, in the last years the course of the professional diseases shown a trend in reduction. This trend has had to the difficulty to recognize the professional aetiology of multifactorial diseases. In the Venice the analysis of the course of the professional diseases in last the 4-5 years has demonst…

The occurrence of eclampsia in the last two decades in the women's hospital of the University of Goettingen was evaluated. In a total of 32,578 birth there was an incidence of 0.11%. Maternal mortality was 16.2%, perinatal mortality 19.5%. 73% of the patients were primiparae, 24.3% unmarried pregnant women. A regressio…

A total of 19,577 x-ray films made from 5,092 patients was examined, subdivided into 94 different kinds of examination. The following observations were made: The time since the last x-ray examination of the patient up to Jan. 6 1973 was less than 2 years in 30.1% and less than 5 years in 63.8% of the patients. These fi…

Marine radiocarbon (14C) dates are widely used for dating oceanic events and as tracers of ocean circulation, essential components for understanding ocean-climate interactions. Past ocean ventilation rates have been determined by the difference between radiocarbon ages of deep-water and surface-water reservoirs, but th…