OBGYN & Reproduction Week articles from March 2003

OBGYN & Reproduction Week archives from March 2003

Serum profile of isosorbide mononitrate after vaginal administration in the third trimester.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from Scotland, "vaginally administered nitric oxide donors such as isosorbide mononitrate have been used to ripen the uterine cervix in pregnancy. The pharmacokinetics of...

Increased risk may be linked to presence of common bacterium in amniotic fluid.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A scientist at Weill Cornell Medical College has discovered that the presence of the microorganism Ureaplasma urealyticum in the amniotic fluid is linked with an increased risk of preterm labor. ...

Phase II clinical data reported for 7-day patch.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Agile Therapeutics, Inc., announced that an analysis of data from the Phase II clinical trial of its seven-day translucent contraceptive patch indicates that ovulation was suppressed by more than 95%...

Hormone therapy could help prevent preterm births.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Injections of a progesterone-type hormone may be able to prevent more than a third of preterm births in women with a history of giving birth early, reported Paul J. Meis, MD, of Wake Forest University...

Low amniotic fluid no risk to normal birth.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Doctors may not have to deliver a baby early if it has low amniotic fluid surrounding it, Johns Hopkins obstetricians report. In a study presented at the annual meeting of the Society for...

Risk factors for bacterial vaginosis in early pregnancy outlined in new study.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Poland, "the main aim of this prospective study was to determine the socioeconomic, demographic and environmental factors that may be associated with the occurrence of...

More regulation, long-term studies needed, says magazine.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In an article in its March 2003 issue, Popular Science magazine describes the need for long-term studies and more regulation in assisted reproductive technology (ART). The article "Sallie has Two...

Knowledge of pregnancy prevention alternatives lacking among Danish women.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Denmark, "the aim of this study was to describe knowledge about and use of emergency contraception (EC) among Danish women requesting termination of pregnancy. The...

Cytokine blocker may be effective for treating gynecological disorder.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from England, "endometriosis is a common gynecological disorder causing pain, infertility, and emotional distress." "Evidence presented here suggests that abnormal...

Hormone replacement maintains vaginal integrity after ovarian removal.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "The goal of this study was to investigate the effects of ovariectomy and estrogen replacement on vaginal tissue integrity and vaginal lubrication in basal conditions and in response to pelvic nerve...

Acrobeads test useful for assessing fertility after varicocele repair.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Acrobeads testing can be a useful way to evaluate the fertility potential of men who have undergone surgery to remove varicoceles, researchers in Japan say. "The Acrobeads test was performed on...

Neighborhood variables a rationale for birth weight differences in urban babies.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from the United States, "differences in maternal characteristics only partially explain the lower birth weights of infants of African-American women. It is hypothesized that...

The ganglionic eminence appears to have a temporary amygdaloid connection.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "The superior part of the ganglionic eminence has been shown to act as an intermediate target for outgrowing axons of projections between the thalamus and the cerebral cortex. This study aims at...

Stress during pregnancy can affect fetal heart rate.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Stress-related changes in a pregnant woman's heart rate and blood pressure, along with chronic anxiety, can affect the heart rate of her developing fetus, a new study has concluded. Although the...

E-cadherin and beta-catenin expression are downregulated in trophoblast.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Peoples R China, "E-cadherin and beta-catenin are cell-cell adhesion molecules, which are thought to play an important role in trophoblastic differentiation and...

Oxidative stress is suspected, due to differences in placental blood flow.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from England, "Onset of the maternal-placental circulation was studied by Doppler ultrasonography in 65 pairs of age matched normal and abnormal pregnancies. In normal...

Property of pregnant uterus may be of importance in preventing fetal rejection.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Protecting the fetus and placenta from the maternal immune system has long been considered a function of placental trophoblasts," researchers in the United States report. "Here, we present two...

Heparin and aspirin are the simplest, most effective treatments.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from India, "The most compelling association between pregnancy loss and autoimmune phenomena has been with the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies (APA) lupus anticoagulant and...

Arc and actin cytoskeleton plays a role in the acrosome formation.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from the United States, "In neurons, arc (activity regulated, cytoskeleton associated) is an immediate early gene (IEG) that is rapidly and transiently induced by excitatory...

Preliminary evidence suggests control by GnRH-II is energy dependent.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from the United States, "GnRH is the master neuropeptide that coordinates and regulates reproduction in all vertebrates and some nonvertebrates. Sixteen forms of GnRH have been...

Sperm DNA fragmentation higher among some couples with recurrent miscarriage.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Some couples who experience repeated pregnancy loss may be hosts to sperm DNA fragmentation, according to researchers in the United States. "Previous studies have indicated that sperm quality may be...

Genetic typing of Chlamydia trachomatis affirms data collection.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from Canada, "sexual and social network analysis have been proposed as novel sexually transmitted disease control and research tools. Here, the concordance between chlamydia...

Novel role for immunosuppressive galectin-1 in reproductive biology.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Galectin-1, a highly conserved beta-galactoside-binding protein, induces apoptosis of activated T cells and suppresses the development of autoimmunity and chronic inflammation. To gain insight...

Tridimensional component increases time of contact with egg surface.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "In most detailed studies, sea urchin sperm movement has been analyzed mainly from observations of spermatozoa swimming at the interface between two media: water/air or water/glass," researchers in...

Expression and functional activity of NHE isoforms in endometrial epithelium.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from the Peoples Republic of China, "The luminal fluid microenvironment of the uterus is important for sperm capacitation and embryo development. "In an attempt to...

Powder from Derris brevipes variety coriacea prevents implantation.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Powder from Derris brevipes variety coriacea prevents embryonic implantation. According to recent research from India, "traditional physicians in and around Kotagiri village near Ootacamund, use a...

Pregnancy registry reports drug risk to fetus.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A report from a research team headed by the director of the Harvard-based Antiepileptic Drug (AED) Pregnancy Registry details for the first time the risk of birth defects in women taking a widely used...

Risk is significantly reduced by both induced and spontaneous abortions.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Sweden, "It has been suggested that abortions leave the breast epithelium in a proliferative state with an increased susceptibility to carcinogenesis. Results from...

Survivin is an apoptosis antagonist.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Survivin is an apoptosis antagonist. According to recent research from Japan, "survivin, a protein that inhibits apoptosis, is expressed in a variety of tumor cells." "We detected...

Vaginal delivery makes most abnormal cytologic findings regress.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vaginal delivery makes most abnormal cytologic findings regress, researchers in Croatia found. "The purpose of this study was to determine whether abnormal antepartum cervical cytologic findings...

Too much coffee during pregnancy risks stillbirth.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pregnant women who drink 8 or more cups of coffee a day run more than twice the risk of stillbirth compared with women who do not drink coffee, finds a new study. Researchers in Denmark identified...

Epidural analgesia during delivery does not affect the pelvic floor.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Epidural analgesia during spontaneous delivery does not adversely affect the pelvic floor. "The aim of the study was to assess the effects of epidural analgesia on pelvic floor function....

A pleomorphic vulvar leiomyoma with local invasiveness is described.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "A case of pleomorphic leiomyoma in the Bartholin gland area in a 26 year old woman is reported. After diagnostic treatment, primary excision was done," researchers in Croatia report. "A large,...

DNA vaccine partially protects murine fetuses from Chlamydophila abortus.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- DNA immunization with the major outer-membrane protein-encoding gene of Chlamydophila abortus offers partial protection to fetuses of pregnant mice. "The protective effect of DNA vaccination with...

Poor glucose tolerance does not necessarily predict birth of big babies.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pierre Maheux and colleagues report that plasma glucose concentrations in pregnant women - an indicator of gestational diabetes - do not necessarily lead to the delivery of large-for-gestational-age...

Neurogenic factors drive neurological deficits in pregnancy migraines.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Neurogenic factors drive neurological deficits in pregnancy migraines. According to recent research from the United States, "the pathophysiology of the neurological deficits in hemiplegic migraine...

Spontaneous abortion link seen.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- For the first time, a specific link has been found between spontaneous abortion and risk of heart disease in later life, according to new research. The team analyzed national data on births in...

Physical activity is complementary to the initiation of hormone replacement.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Physical activity is complementary to the initiation of hormone replacement. "Hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) and physical activity are both related to aging and health. U.S minorities are more...

Prolactinoma is one cause but others must be ruled out.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from England, "Hyperprolactinemia is the most common endocrine disorder of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis. A prolactinoma is the most common cause of chronic hyperprolactinemia...

Study confirms effectiveness of Bravelle in producing donor eggs for IVF.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a new study published in the First Quarter 2003 issue of Today's Therapeutic Trends, Bravelle (urofollitropin for injection, purified), a highly purified human-derived follicle-stimulating...

Exposure to a solvent alternative causes ovarian dysfunction in rats.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Exposure to a solvent alternative causes ovarian dysfunction in rats. According to a study from Japan, "although 1-bromopropane has been used in chemical and electronic industries as an alternative...

Condoms hold no risk for sensitization of other allergy-prone patients.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study from Germany assessed "the prevalence of sensitization to latex in a group of women with a high risk for atopy and determined whether the use of condoms is a relevant risk factor. In the...

Association partners with software company for patient education.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Academic Health Professionals Insurance Association (AHPIA) plans to provide an innovative new software system from Graphic Surgery LLC to its OB/GYN members, requiring its use to educate patients...

Black women's favorable opinion of prenatal care doesn't translate to use.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Results of recent study indicate that black women's favorable opinion of prenatal care doesn't translate to use. The findings "challenge the assumption that improving a woman's satisfaction with...

Pregnancy nutrition may be a source of allergic diseases in infants.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nutrition during pregnancy may be a source of allergic diseases in infants. "The prevalence of allergic diseases is high in Japan, even in infants. Their risk for developing allergies is...

Vaginal delivery is associated with urinary incontinence in climacteric women.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vaginal delivery is associated with urinary incontinence in climacteric women. "The aim of this study was to compare the urodynamic findings among climacteric women complaining of urinary...

Upper airway resistance during sleep may heighten pregnancy blood pressure.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Upper airway resistance during sleep may heighten blood pressure during pregnancy. "Snoring is common in pregnancy, and snoring pregnant women have increased rates of pre-eclampsia. Patients with...

Clinicians who treat pregnant women for nicotine dependence need more training.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Clinicians who treat pregnant women for nicotine dependence need more training. Researchers from the United States, "investigated the relationship of clinicians' knowledge of treatments for...

Early administration of recombinant GCSF is very effective treatment.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Turkey, "A randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial was conducted of early administration of recombinant granulocyte colony stimulating factor (rGCSF) to 40...

The portrayal of motherhood on television affects young women's expectations.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The portrayal of motherhood on television affects young women's future expectations. According to research from the Netherlands, "this study explored the relationship between television viewing and...

Better culture conditions could improve prospects for in vitro spermatogenesis.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Better culture conditions could improve prospects for in vitro spermatogenesis. According to recent research from the United States, "in recent years, extraordinary progress has been made in a...

Seminiferous tubule cannulation a new technique for detecting gene transfer.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Seminiferous tubule cannulation is a new technique for detecting gene transfer. According to a study from the United States, "As gene therapy vectors, strategies, and disease targets continue to...

Diagnostic laparoscopy may not be needed before intrauterine insemination.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Diagnostic laparoscopy may not be needed before intrauterine insemination. According to a study from Netherlands, "diagnostic laparoscopy is normally the standard procedure performed as the final...

Fetal death, miscarriage linked to genetic mutation.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have discovered that the genetic mutation that causes the childhood cancer retinoblastoma routinely triggers fetal death and miscarriage in laboratory animals by disrupting the normal...

RISUG has proven effective for preventing pregnancy in a clinical trial.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- RISUG has proven effective for preventing pregnancy in a clinical trial. "Following the intravasal injection of a new male contraceptive RISUG (reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance) in...

Caesarean scar pregnancy can be managed in the presence of a normal pregnancy.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Caesarean scar pregnancy can be managed in the presence of a normal pregnancy. According to a study from France, "Caesarean scar pregnancy (CSP), in which the pregnancy is located in the scar of a...

Pregnancy-related deaths still higher in black women than white women.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Black women have three to four times the risk of a pregnancy-related death when compared with white women, says a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),...

In utero caffeine exposure may impact newborn respiratory control.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In utero caffeine exposure may impact newborn respiratory control. According to a study from France, "several aspects of the central regulation of respiratory control have been investigated on...

Quality of life improves for women who elect to terminate pregnancies.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Quality of life improves for women who elect to terminate pregnancies. "Short-term quality of life following abortion is poorly characterized. We conducted a prospective cohort study to evaluate...

Peptide growth factor is found in the tracheal aspirates of preterm neonates.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A peptide growth factor is found in the tracheal aspirates of preterm neonates. According to a study from the United States, "basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF or FGF-2), vascular endothelial...

Dysplasia usually causes false positive squamous cell carcinoma diagnosis.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A false positive squamous cell carcinoma diagnosis is usually found to be due to dysplasia. According to recent research from the United States, "Cytologic features of squamous intraepithelial...

The vaginal environment can impact the efficacy of sperimicidal gels.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The vaginal environment can impact the efficacy of sperimicidal gels. According to a study from the United States, "the theological properties of four commercially available spermicidal gels (two...

By second trimester, antigen-presenting, T, and B cells are properly organized.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- By second trimester, antigen-presenting, T, and B cells are properly organized. According to recent research from the United States, "Little is known regarding the timing of immune ontogeny and...

Convexity meningioma can present as postpartum eclampsia.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Convexity meningioma can present as postpartum eclampsia. According to a study from Nigeria, "a 37-year-old woman, para 5(+0) presented with a 1 year history of recurrent convulsions and...

Maternal nutrition in late gestation affects adipose tissue development in lambs.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Fetal number and maternal nutrition in late gestation affect prolactin receptor abundance and adipose tissue development in the neonatal lamb. According to a study from England, "The present study...

Leptin levels affect anthropometric measures of neonates in gestational diabetes.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The pathophysiological influence of leptin and the tumor necrosis factor system on maternal insulin resistance has a negative correlation with anthropometric parameters of neonates in gestational...

Tamoxifen appears to be highly effective only against high-risk breast cancer.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Tamoxifen appears to be highly effective only against high-risk breast cancer. "Tamoxifen improves outcome in women with breast cancer and reduces the incidence of estrogen receptor positive (ER+)...

Father's genes may play a role in timing of birth.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A father's genes may play a role in the timing of birth and in the risk of repeating a prolonged pregnancy, suggests a new study. Prolonged pregnancy - a pregnancy with a gestational length of 294...

Genes affect bone metabolism in young women on low-dose oral contraception.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genes affect bone metabolism in young women on low-dose oral contraception. "With the aim to determine whether bone metabolism in young women using low-dose oral contraception is influenced by...

Task force recommends preventing ovarian cancer by treating intraepithelial neoplasia.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A task force suggests prevention by treating intraepithelial neoplasia. According to recent research from the United States, "To reduce the incidence and mortality associated with invasive cancers,...

Pregnancy and childbirth present unique needs for female substance abusers.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pregnancy and childbirth present unique needs for female substance abusers. "The present study assessed 108 women enrolled in a residential treatment program for perinatal substance abusers in...

Traditional twin studies can't establish a genetic link to respiratory disorder.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Traditional twin studies can't establish a genetic link to respiratory distress syndrome. According to recent research from Finland, "Recent evidence suggests that the susceptibility to...

The diaphragm outpaces the vaginal sponge in U.S. and U.K. trials.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The diaphragm outpaces the vaginal sponge in U.S. and U.K. trials. "The contraceptive vaginal sponge was developed as an alternative to the contraceptive diaphragm. Unlike the diaphragm, the...

Adhesion, invasiveness, and differentiation involve complex mechanisms.
March 17, 2003... 2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from Germany, "The establishment of pregnancy in the human decisively depends on the competence of the early trophoblast to interact during implantation with (1) the uterine...

Researchers identify source.
March 24, 2003... 2003 MAR 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have identified a protein that leads to the development of pre-eclampsia, a serious and potentially life-threatening complication of...

Peritraumatic dissociation plagues some women who experience pregnancy loss.
March 24, 2003... 2003 MAR 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Peritraumatic dissociation plagues some women who experience pregnancy loss. "This study examined (1) predictors for peritraumatic dissociation, (2) its relations with acute and chronic symptoms of...

A combination of paracetamol and caffeine doesn't cause congenital malformation.
March 24, 2003... 2003 MAR 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A combination of paracetamol (acetominophen) and caffeine doesn't cause congenital malformation. "The effect of the mixture of paracetamol and caffeine on prenatal development in rats was...

The later the timing of any pregnancy, the lower the risk.
March 24, 2003... 2003 MAR 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The later the timing of any pregnancy, the lower the risk. According to recent research from Australia, "Recent animal studies suggest that progestagen induced apoptosis of transformed ovarian...

The biparietal diameter/kidney length ratio can reveal fetal complications.
March 24, 2003... 2003 MAR 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The biparietal diameter/kidney length ratio can reveal fetal complications. "The object of this study was to investigate the fetal biparietal diameter/kidney length ratio in normal and...

Flow cytometry contributes to study of physiologic and pathologic processes.
March 24, 2003... 2003 MAR 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Flow cytometry contributes to study of physiologic and pathologic processes. According to a study from Spain, "Flow cytometry (FC) is an analytical cytology technique which has been extensively...

Patient's sense of increased control correlates with alternative medicine use.
March 24, 2003... 2003 MAR 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Patient's sense of increased control correlates with alternative medicine use. According to a study from the United States, "Research has shown that perceptions of control influence health related...

Cytokines provide a series of added functions in mammals, including humans.
March 24, 2003... 2003 MAR 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cytokines provide a series of added functions in mammals, including humans. According to a study from Austria, "This article reviews the function of cytokines during early pregnancy of mammals...

RFPL4 interacts with oocyte proteins in ubiquitin-proteasome degradation pathway.
March 24, 2003... 2003 MAR 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- RFPL4 interacts with oocyte proteins in ubiquitin-proteasome degradation pathway. According to a study from the United States, "Oocyte meiosis and early mitotic divisions in developing embryos rely...

First statewide survey shows obstetricians are stopping or intending to stop.
March 24, 2003... 2003 MAR 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new survey from Oregon Health & Sciences University suggests a number of obstetrical providers in Oregon have already quit or are planning to quit delivering babies. A majority of these providers...