Positive Health Online

Issue 221

LIM and COLLEAGUES, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia reviewed the literature regarding non-hormonal methods for inducing labour.

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Issue 221

PENG and COLLEAGUES, From the Australian Research Center in Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia reviewed the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use am1

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Issue 220

ST JOHN and COLLEAGUES, (1)Atherosclerosis Research Unit, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California sought to determine the effect of cha1

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Issue 218

LEE and COLLEAGUES,  Seonam Hospital, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea evaluated efficacy and safety of extracorporeal biofeedback combined with pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinen1

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Issue 217

McEVOY and COLLEAGUES, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland set out to determine if newborns of pregnant smokers randomized to receive daily vitamin C would have improved results of pulmonary function tests (PFTs) and decreased wheezing 1

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Issue 212

SENDON and COLLEAGUES, Pole d'obstetrique, hopital Jeanne-de-Flandre, CHRU de Lille, 1 rue Eugene-Avinee, Lille cedex, France. sylviesendon@hotmail.com  investigated maternal perception of both anxi1

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Issue 211

BARRAGAN and COLLEAGUES, Centro YURINA Educacion para el parto, Calle Francia # 777, building Unicornio, floor 3B, Achumani, La Paz, Bolivia examined the effectiveness of the use of biofeedback in prenatal lessons for managing pain duri1

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Issue 210

VAKILIAN and COLLEAGUES, Nursing and Midwifery College, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Tehran, Iran. swt_f@yahoo.com  compare the use of lavender and povidone-iodine for episiotomy wound care.

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Issue 206

RAJA-KHAN and COLLEAGUES, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, MS Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, USA. nrajakhan@psu.edu&n1

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Issue 204

DANTE and FACCHINETTI, Mother Infant Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via del Pozzo 71, Modena, Italy conducted a systematic review of the literature to analyze the effects of herbal remedies for Premenstrual syndrome1

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Issue 202

SONKUSARE, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka 576104, India. shipra_s18@rediffmail.com review the clinical management1

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Issue 199

MASEREJIAN and COLLEAGUES, New England Research Institutes, Watertown, MA 02472, USA. nmaserejian@neriscience.com tested the hypothesis that carotenoid, vitamin C, zinc, and calcium intak1

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Issue 198

FUKIU and COLLEAGUES, Department of Education, Nara University of Education, Nara, Japan. fukuih@nara-edu.ac.jp  studied the effects of saffron odour upon women’s symptoms of PMS, menstrual pain 1

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Issue 195

CARMODY and COLLEAGUES, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA. james.carmody@umassmed.edu analyzed the effect of participa1

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Issue 193

MARTIN and COLLEAGUES, Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA. martchan@email.unc.edu  explored the association between micronutrients and ut1

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Issue 189

STAGER writes about the important, empowering effects that the massage practitioner can bring to the birth process of women in labour.

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Issue 189

WINTER, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California at Irvine, CA, USA. winter@ocwmg.com evaluated the performance of a high-power device (50 W as opposed to 25 W), combining these energ1

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Issue 187

VILLAR and COLLEAGUES, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. jose.villar@obs-gyn1

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Issue 184

BASARIA and COLLEAGUES,  Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. shehzad.basaria@bmc.org eval1

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Issue 184

KENNY and COLLEAGUES, Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA set out to evaluate the long-term effect of dietary soy protein and/or soy isoflavone consumption on skeletal health in late postmenopausal women.1

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