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UNLABELLED: Since the egal use of induced abortion (1975), all the studies have shown a relative stability of the abortion rate related to delivery. Otherwise since 1985 we have noted an increase of repeat abortions. OBJECTIVE: We compared in same center two populations of aborters with a fifteen year's interval. Then we analysed the psyco-social conditions of patients who had more than one abortion (R). METHODS: It was a comparative study between 1982 and 1996 in the main center of Côte d'Or (France)...

The Author analyses the psyco-physical conditions prevailing during illness and hospitalization: from the alterations taking place in the anti-stimulus barriers, to the damages in the oneself perception as a whole. Being at the same time a psychologist and a patient, the A focalizes the value she believes the most specific one of the nursing profession: to care for the body means to care for the person, while the awareness of the suffering conditions means to care for the fundamental needs of reassurance, psycho-physical integration and interpersonal communication...

This study was carried out in en institution which assists mentally impaired individuals, and are kept as inters. The institution, herein denominated CASA GRANDE, houses approximately 900 interns. The direct care of the is providad by, on average, 400 nursing assistants. The purpose of this study was to gain knowlwdge of, and comprehend, to work of the nursing assistants in this context, through the representations they have regarding their daily chores. The analysis of these representations provided the compreension of the symbolic dimension of the work, having demonstrated its movements in the psyco-social (individual), social-dynamic (group), institutional (institution) and societal (community) levels...

BACKGROUND: Even though several radiological and laboratory tests are currently used in clinical practice for breast cancer surveillance, the benefits of early detection of distant metastases have never been established. Two recently published randomized clinical trials assessing the effectiveness of an intensive follow-up strategy (with periodic clinical examination, mammography, bone scan, liver echography, chest-X-ray and laboratory tests) over a minimalist one (including only periodic clinical examination and mammography) failed to show a significant advantage for the more intensive policy...

The A.A. insert the life and work of the naturalist and chemist Felice Fontana, born in Pomarolo (Trentino), in the frame of 18th century sciences, beside other great names of that century like Carolus Linnaeus, Réaumur, von Haller, Spallanzani, Morgagni, Priestley and Lavoisier. In the field of general biology, the discovery of nucleus and nucleolus and consequently the discovery of the eukaryotic cell, as we say in our days, in his, as well as the one of anabiosis. The A.A. enucleate and analyse the contributions of Fontana to the neurosciences; he has discovered the axon and the myelinic sheath half century before Remak and Purknije; he found out that the white matter of the brain is made of fibres alike those of nerves and the grey matter is made of globules (i...

The severity rate of industrial accidents is calculated so as to make possible their statistical processing. The application to the case of a mechanical plant is presented in order to estimate the severity of the industrial accident risk. Such risk increases with the age of the accident victims, with great climatic changes, with the passing of non-stop working hours, and is due above all to limb contusions (the upper are the more affected) as a consequence of struck against or by objects, of the falls of objects and persons, of getting caught between objects and of hitting against stationary objects, in increasing order of severity; the decrease in the rate with the passing of week days can be indicative of difficulties in the psyco-physical adjustment to the work place...

The rapporteur after hawing having illustrated the significance of the revocation and the annulment of the invalid pension legislative measures much are not of a discretional nature, but an obliged legislative power of the public administration--has underlined that they must be used when the qualifications which x caused the recognition of the state of invalidity no longer exists or when it has been ascertained that they have never existed. It is discussed the role which the improvement in the psyco-physical conditions, the fact of the re-occupation of the invalid, the moment of the arisal of the infirmities, and of the physical mental defects and the charged attitude of the worker in the different and new occupations can play in judging the revocation...

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A rare case of solid supratentorial haemangioblastoma presenting in a 67-year-old female with psyco-motory lowering, dysphasia and mild haemiparesis is reported and the pertinent literature is reviewed. The distinction between angioblastic meningioma and haemangioblastoma with the non specific radiological findings of this supratentorial uncommon tumour in are also debated.

Loss of libido associated with the use of oral contraceptives has been studied in 113 women of reproductive age who had taken a combined pill for periods ranging from 1 to 3 years. The patients were divided in four groups. In the first group (I) of 24 women oral contraceptive treatment was discontinued and all women received in intra-uterine contraceptive device (IUCD). The second group (II) of 36 patients, the brand of oral contraceptive was changed. Women in group (III) had their oral contraceptive maintained receiving in addition a mixture of an androgen and an estrogen (methyltestosterone 4 mg and ethynilestradiol 0...

Five cases of supravalvular aortic stenosis (SAS) diagnosed by heart catheterization were studied in the Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia of Mexico. The clinic and laboratory data of interest of the differential diagnosis with other forms of obstruction of the left ventricle as follows: 1. Three cases had mental retardation and "elfin" face (SAS with specific psychophysical syndrome), the rest had a normal psyco-physical state without family antecedents (sporadic SAS). 2. The aortic focus was the epicenter of the expulsion murmur...

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