Frontiers in medicine

Front Med (Lausanne) · ISSN (print) 2296-858X · 409 papers in corpus
observational 2020
doi:10.3389/fmed.2020.00217 ·PMID:32671077

Infertility is one of the most common reproductive system diseases, and no effective method is available for its treatment. Although in vitro fertilization (IVF) has been widely used to enhance the clinical pregnancy outcome of infertility,…

observational 2020
doi:10.3389/fmed.2020.601606 ·PMID:33693010

Objectives: Women affected by rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have a higher risk of endometriosis, an estrogen-dependent, chronic inflammatory disease. Though acupuncture has long been a safe and effective therapy for treating inflammatory condit…

other 2020
doi:10.3389/fmed.2020.00555 ·PMID:33015104

Background: Oxidative stress (OxS) has been linked to several pregnancy-related complications. Previous studies demonstrated that lactoferrin (LF) has the ability to modulate inflammation, OxS and the immune function. Therefore, we aimed to…

observational 2019
doi:10.3389/fmed.2019.00316 ·PMID:31998735

The freeze-all strategy has been increasingly employed in the context of in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles globally, but the relative advantages of this approach are not entirely understood. Herein we sought to assess how maternal age aff…

review 2019
doi:10.3389/fmed.2019.00197 ·PMID:31555650

Ovarian stimulation (OS) has for objective to induce multiple ovulation in order to yield a multiple oocyte harvest and offer multiple embryos available for transfer thereby increasing the efficacy of ART. Originally, the primary risk assoc…

case-report 2019
doi:10.3389/fmed.2019.00178 ·PMID:31440511

Background: Bacterial vaginosis is the most common infection in women and it has been proved that dysbiosis of vaginal microbiota can promote the infectious status. This case report shows the effect of oral and vaginal sex over the microbio…

other 2018
doi:10.3389/fmed.2018.00299 ·PMID:30420952

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common endocrine disorders in reproductive-aged women, affecting 6-8% of women and characterized by hyperandrogenism, ovulatory dysfunction, and polycystic ovarian morphology. Accumulating…

review 2018
doi:10.3389/fmed.2018.00244 ·PMID:30238005

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) are emerging as new genetic/epigenetic regulators that can impact almost all physiological functions. Here, we focus on the long non-coding steroid receptor RNA activator (SRA), including new insights into its …

nonrandomized-trial 2017
doi:10.3389/fmed.2017.00065 ·PMID:28620604

OBJECTIVE: Traditional medical school curricula have not addressed fertility awareness-based methods (FABMs) of family planning. The objective of this study was to assess (1) 3-year medical students' knowledge of FABMs of family planning, (…