Sierra Leone faces significant challenges in providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care and rights (SRHR) due to cultural norms, poverty and limited health care resources. These issues disproportionately affect low-income women, who face multiple barriers to accessing essential SRHR …

Objective Assess improvable care factors in late preterm mortality, defined as death of a child during labour or in the first 28 days thereafter between 32 + 0 and 36 + 6 weeks gestation, in the Netherlands. Design Perinatal audit has been coordinated and supported at the national level, with selection …

Background: Roughly 200 million women become pregnant every year - most of them living in developing countries in Asia and Africa - many of these women suffer from ongoing nutritional deficiencies, contributing to the estimate of half a million maternal deaths a year. Educational programs teaching on …

Soil quality is directly linked to food quality and quantity. However the globalisation and the pressure to increase the agricultural production results to deterioration of the environment, climate change and a serious threat to human and animal health. Soil contamination effected by the environmental …

Background: Having children or being childless is associated with differences in women's psychological wellbeing during the reproductive age period. Methods: An individually matched case-control cohort study, measuring psychological wellbeing with the 5-item Mental Health Inventory (MHI-5) was conducted. …

Adolescents' access to contraception and other sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services has been described in previous studies as a problem to many communities in Africa. The Department of Health and HelpHer.org provides sexual and reproductive health services to adolescents in Esidadeni through …

Background: Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a heritable connective tissue disease caused by a defect in FBN1. The diagnosis is based on the revised Ghent criteria. The main features involve the cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, ophthalmic, pulmonary systems and facial features. Although the clinical manifestations …

Background: Urban slums are characterised by unique challenging living conditions, which increase their inhabitants’ vulnerability to specific health conditions. The identification and prioritization of the key health issues occurring in these settings is essential for the development of programmes that …

The waldrapp ibis (Geronticus eremita) is a colonial and monogamous bird species, which is classified as ‘Critically Endangered’ by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Due to the rapid decline of wild waldrapp ibises a European Endangered species Programme (EEP) has been set up as …

From the article: "To enable selection of novel chemicals for new processes, there is a recognized need for alternative toxicity screening assays to assess potential risks to man and the environment. For human health hazard assessment these screening assays need to be translational to humans, have …