BACKGROUND:In 2007, the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) identified 14 priority countries across eastern and southern Africa for scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services. Several years into this ...

BACKGROUND: Oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) is a chronic, premalignant condition of the oral mucosa and one of the commonest potentially malignant disorders amongst the Asian population. The objective of this study was to investigate the association of etiologic factors ...

Background : Synthetic hexaploid wheats are artificially reconstituted  hexaploid wheats that possess high genetic variation which could be utilized for the development of new improved wheat varieties. One such group of synthetic wheats is called the Elite-II set of syn...

<jats:sec><jats:title>Objectives</jats:title><jats:p>To assess: (1) the impact of a reproductive health program on modern contraceptive use from baseline to program close; (2) the sustained impact from baseline to follow-up 36 months later; and (3) the exposure-adjusted...

Natural products, an infinite treasure of bioactive scaffolds, have provided an excellent reservoir for the discovery of drugs since millennium. These naturally occurring, biologically active and therapeutically effective chemical entities have emerged as novel paradigm...

In the molecule of the title compound, C13H14O4, the benzene ring forms dihedral angles of 18.60&#8197;(7) and 81.36&#8197;(8)&#176; with the two arms of the malonate moiety. The crystal structure features C&#8212;H...O interactions, which form chains running parallel t...

PubMed: 31886779

Abstract Background Varicocele is known to be associated with infertility and sperm disorders. The exact cause of this ailment is not fully understood. There are limited numbers of studies where venous blood gases (VBGs) of varicocele veins were determined with conflict...

Imrana Masroor,1 Shaista Afzal,1 Gulnaz Shafqat,1 Hasan Rehman21Department of Radiology, 2Medical College, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, PakistanBackground: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of hook wire localization biopsy under imaging ...