Obstetrics and Gynecology articles covering symptoms, diagnosis, staging, treatment, prognosis, and follow-up.
Due to increased cost of living, scarcity of accomodation, resources and an overall desire to improve living standards, there is a pressing need to limit the family size at a personal and national level. To achieve this, we all, at one time or another, use a contraceptive method. But how do we know we're using what best suits us?
More than half of all girls and women suffer from dysmenorrhea, cramps (lower abdominal/pelvic pain that begins with onset of menses and lasts 8-72 hours). Menstruating women of any age can experience cramps, but usually teens are the most affected (80%).
Your Blood type is a powerful genetic fingerprint that identifies you as surely as your DNA. A blood type/group is a classification of blood based on the presence or absence of inherited antigenic substances on the surface of red blood cells. These antigens may be proteins, carbohydrates, glycoproteins, or glycolipids, depending on the blood group system. A total of 30 human blood group systems are now recognized by the International Society of Blood Transfusion. The ABO and Rh systems are the most commonly used.
Acute pain such as labor pain hastwo dimensions: a sensory or physical dimension, with the transmissionof information, the pain stimuli, to the brain, and an affectivedimension due to interpretation of these stimuli through theinteraction of a wide variety of emotional, social, culturaland cognitive variables unique to the individual.
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome affects an estimated 5-10 percent of women of childbearing age and it is a leading cause of infertility(due to infrequent or lack of ovulation). It is the most common hormonal disorder among women of reproductive age.
Inflammation is the standard pathologic process, which is developed in response to the introduction of infectious agent and accompanied by the development of the standard complex of vascular and tissue reactions.
Three phases of the inflammatory process:
Precancerous diseases are conditions that tend to become malignant but do not necessarily do so (conditions with a malignant predisposition).Epithelial precancers may be
This is a general term given to diseases caused by the Chlamydia species i.e Ornithosis, psittacosi.