BMJ (Clinical research ed.)

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mittees, and travellers themselves. Such recommendations are more than pious hopes: the report describes various health and local authority initiatives in Essex, Medway, east London, East Anglia, Sheffield, and Liverpool as examples of good…

OBJECTIVE: To provide information on endometrial stimulation after discontinuation of treatment with oestradiol implants. DESIGN: Long term follow up of withdrawal bleeding patterns in women taking progestogens cyclically every month after…

OBJECTIVE: To study the prevalence of infertility, both primary and secondary, outcome of pregnancy, occupation, and uptake of medical services in a total population of women from a geographically defined area. DESIGN: A postal questionnai…

A consecutive series of 49 women (50 procedures), whose conditions were haemodynamically stable, presenting with acute lower abdominal pain, pelvic tenderness, and either a urine concentration of greater than 50 U/l beta human chorionic gon…

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OBJECTIVE: To assess the value of ultrasonography in a screening procedure for early ovarian cancer. DESIGN: Prospective study of at least 5000 self referred women without symptoms of ovarian cancer. Each woman was scheduled to undergo thr…

As an alternative to hysterectomy 16 women with menorrhagia were treated with hysteroscopic transcervical resection of the endometrium with an unmodified urological resectoscope. Twelve patients requested total resection of the endometrial …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of support with human chorionic gonadotrophin in the luteal phase in women taking part in an in vitro fertilisation programme after buserelin and human menopausal gonadotrophin were used to hyperstimulate t…