New Zealand midwives are increasingly seeking and receiving professional support in clinical practice. This support is gaining acceptance within the profession and is now underpinned by government funding. There are a ...

Objective - To evaluate the efficacy of intensive lipid lowering with higher-dose statins. Methods - Meta-analysis of seven randomized controlled trials comprising 50,972 participants. Results - Mean follow-up was 3.1 years ...

Metabolic therapeutics in angina pectoris: history revisited with perhexiline

Metals and metalloids are elemental substances that occur naturally in the Earth¿s crust, and are variously incorporated into biological systems as structural components or proteins. Imbalances in the environmental ...

Drug resistance is a major obstacle to the successful treatment of cancer as tumor cells either fail to reduce in size following chemotherapy or the cancer recurs after an initial response. The phenomenon of multidrug ...

Dientamoeba fragilis is a pathogenic trichomonad found in the gastrointestinal tract of humans and is implicated as a cause of diarrhoea. Despite its discovery over a century ago, there has been no recent thorough description ...

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to chart the patterns and determine the factors associated with acupuncture consultations among a large cohort of mid-aged women in Australia over a 6-year period. Design: A ...

Objectives to describe midwives¿ perceptions of the early mothering experiences of 20 Australian illicit-drug-using mothers. Design a qualitative retrospective study using an explorative descriptive design. Twenty client ...

We explore the position of midwifery in contemporary China, and draw on fieldwork conducted in Shanxi and Sichuan Provinces during 2005 and 2006, the available literature in English and to a lesser extent in Mandarin. We ...