Published in Reproductive Health
Reducing the burden of unsafe abortion rests considerably on women’s ability to access appropriate and timely treatment or services. A critical component of that care relies on a functional supply chain to ensure availability of abortion drugs and supplies within the health system. Disruptions in the supply of medical abortion drugs delay provision...
Published in Reproductive Health
Background Media framing of abortion messages is an emerging field of research. However, little is known about how the news media frames abortion messages aimed at influencing adolescents’ reproductive health choices. This study therefore seeks to investigate the framing of abortion in TV news items on three leading Kenyan TV outlets over a period ...
Published in Sn Comprehensive Clinical Medicine
We describe a case of a woman in her mid-30s who presented to a tertiary level maternity hospital 17 days following early medical abortion with a positive pregnancy test. On the ultrasound examination, it was discovered that she had a second trimester ectopic pregnancy which was treated surgically with a unilateral salpingectomy. We discuss in dept...
Published in Tropical Animal Health and Production
The present study assessed the serostatus of Coxiella burnetii in a dairy cattle herd from the Al Ain region, UAE. In addition, the study evaluated the relationship between C. burnetii seropositivity and history of abortion and cattle age. Blood/sera from 759 cattle were tested by ELISA, and the data analyzed by the Pearson Chi-square test (PCST), ...
Published in BMC Medical Education
BackgroundOne in three women in the United Kingdom (UK) will have an abortion before age 45, making abortion provision an essential aspect of reproductive healthcare. Despite this, abortion remains ethically contested and stigmatised, with variable teaching in UK medical schools and concerns about falling numbers of doctors willing to participate i...
Le rôle de la Cour suprême et son avenir ont été au cœur des élections présidentielles de 2016 et de 2020, d’où l’importance d’étudier les décisions rendues en juin-juillet 2020. Apparemment, ce sont des victoires pour les progressistes, en matière de lutte contre la discrimination, d’avortement ou de pouvoirs du président. Mais, à y regarder de pr...
Published in Contraception
To explore abortion method preference, interpersonal and cultural factors associated with preference, and whether, among people with a preference for medication abortion, those presenting past 10 weeks gestation had experienced more obstacles to care. In 2019, we invited people aged 15 to 45 years presenting to 4 U.S. abortion clinics to complete a...
Published in Contraception
To summarize the effects of routine, opt-out abortion and family planning residency training on obstetrics and gynecology (ob-gyn) residents' clinical skills in uterine evacuation and intentions to provide abortion care after residency. Data from ob-gyn residency programs supported during the first 20 years of the Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training...
Published in Journal of health economics
We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health in Mexico. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on illegal abortion. We observe that the original legalisation resulted in...
Objective: To evaluate the usefulness of the serum concentration of nine matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) as biomarkers of spontaneous abortion.Methods: A retrospective nested cohort case-control study was carried out in Zacatecas, Mexico. MMP-1-3, MMP-7-10, and MMP-12-13 were analyzed in serum from women who had spontaneous abortion of unknown cau...
