British medical journal (Clinical research ed.)

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All women at some time experience pelvic pain associated with physiological events such as menstruation, ovulation, or sexual intercourse.Only a few women seek medical advice for such pain, yet it is the commonest reason for laparoscopy in …

A fertilisation cohort of 244 pregnancies resulting from in vitro fertilisation was reported to a national register by eight units specialising in in vitro fertilisation. Early pregnancy losses were high, with 5% tubal ectopic pregnancies, …

Two hundred and one parents attending three child health clinics were questioned about both measles and immunisation against measles. Most parents were unaware of the symptoms and possible complications of measles and did not believe immuni…

Specialist infertility practice was studied in a group of 708 couples within a population of residents of a single health district in England. They represented an annual incidence of 1.2 couples for every 1000 of the population. At least on…

Pregnancy rates in 651 subfertile couples in which the man had a varicocele were analysed by life table methods and were not found to be significantly different before and after testicular vein ligation performed in 283 patients. Estimated …

Seventy seven patients who were presumed to have a prolactinoma on the basis of biochemical findings underwent transsphenoidal operation between October 1977 and September 1983. Sixty one patients were found to have a microadenoma, and hype…

The association between treatment with danazol and hyperglucagonaemia was studied. Plasma glucagon concentrations were measured during an oral glucose tolerance test in seven women taking danazol and six healthy controls not taking danazol.…

During February 1979 to December 1983, 831 infertile couples were treated by in vitro fertilisation and embryo transfer. The problems they faced included deciding on the number of oocytes to be collected at laparoscopy, the numbers to be do…