Jan 30, 2020

The members of the tribe Proteeae, Morganella and Providencia are being increasingly recognized as important pathogens. The spectrum of disease caused by them is wide and in reported cases the mortali...

Jan 30, 2020

Immobility is common and associated with adverse outcomes in hospitalized patients, especially older people. However, the factors contributing to mortality in bedridden patients are not well known. Th...

Jan 30, 2020

Psychosocial stress during pregnancy has been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes including preterm birth (PTB). This has not been studied in Puerto Rico, an area with high PTB rates. Our objec...

Jan 30, 2020

The placenta plays a central role in the epigenetic programming of neurodevelopment by prenatal stress (PS), but this pathway is not fully understood. It difficult to study in humans because the condi...

Jan 30, 2020

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of severe endometriosis in younger patients compared to tubal infertility on pregnancy and live birth rate undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF). This...

Jan 30, 2020

Sertoli cells are important for spermatogenesis not only by directly interacting with germ line cells in the seminiferous epithelium but also by constituting the blood-testis barrier (BTB) structure t...

Jan 30, 2020

This study is to determine if sperm mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNA CN) is associated with fertilization, blastulation, blastocyst euploidy, and live birth rates in in vitro fertilization (IVF) w...

Jan 30, 2020

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects 8-10% of women. NIH criteria for diagnosis include chronic anovulation and evidence of clinical or biochemical hyperandrogenism. PCOS is associated with advers...

Jan 30, 2020

The diagnostic criteria of menstrual migraine (MM), migraine related to menstruation and pure menstrual migraine, are placed in the appendix of the International Classification of Headache Disorders a...

Jan 30, 2020

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is responsible for epidemic and sporadic acute hepatitis cases, especially in developing countries. Hepatitis E has become a vaccine-preventable disease in recent years with th...

Jan 30, 2020

While the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) can use agency-wide emergency activation to respond to a hepatitis A virus-infected food handler, there is a need to identify al...

Jan 30, 2020

The National Cervical Screening Program (NCSP) in Australia underwent major changes on December 1st, 2017. The program changed from 2-yearly Pap testing for women aged 18-69 years to 5-yearly HPV test...

Jan 30, 2020

Axonal sorting, the controlled passage of specific cargoes from the cell soma into the axon compartment, is critical for establishing and maintaining the polarity of mature neurons. To delineate axona...

Jan 30, 2020

Optical coherence tomography is a noninvasive technology that visualizes tissue microstructure with high spatial resolution. We designed a novel vaginal system that demonstrates a clear distinction be...

Jan 30, 2020

Epidemiological studies have shown that some hormonal contraceptive methods are associated with increased breast cancer risk, especially if used over long periods. Our objective was to conduct a syste...

Jan 30, 2020

Recurrent vulvovaginal infections (RVVI) has not only become an epidemiological and clinical problem but also include large social and psychological consequences. Understanding the mechanisms of both ...

Jan 30, 2020

The G Protein-Coupled Estrogen Receptor (GPER) is a novel membrane-bound receptor that mediates non-genomic actions of the primary female sex hormone 17β-estradiol. Studies over the past two decades ...

Jan 28, 2020

Research indicates that women with locally advanced endometrial cancer are at high risk for both local and systemic recurrence. “Historically, these patients received external beam pelvic radiothera...

Jan 24, 2020

Goal-directed therapy (GDT) is increasingly used in abdominal surgery. Whether crystalloids can exert the same effect as colloid, and how this may affect perfusion, is still unclear. The effect of GDT...

Jan 24, 2020

Determine the rates of screening for substance use in pregnant women versus non-pregnant women attending the emergency department (ED).We captured all ED visits by women of childbearing age (12-50 yea...