Reproductive Medicine

Reproductive medicine - past-present-future; ovarian hyperstimulation for poor responders in ART; intracytoplasmatic sperm injection (ICSI) - challenges and prospects; new stericlip and other prospective new technologies for the sterilization of women; the risk of cardiovascular diseases in women over 40 using oral contraception; oral contraceptives and thrombosis; abortion in adolescents; monthly injectable contraceptives - recent advances; barriers to contraceptive use in developing countries; contraceptive medicine - past, present and future; elcometrine for long-term contraception and clinical management of endometriosis; overview - contraceptive research - accomplishments in the 20th century and present use of contraceptives; contraception for the 21st century - challenges and prospects; the contraceptive efficacy of low-dose gossypol in Brazilian men; passive immunization with humanized anti-hCG antibodies for safe, widetime window and fully effective approach for emergency contraception; studies of gossypol in the treatment of cancer; pharmaceutical gossypol from Brazil; unravelling the genetics of complex disorders of reproduction; reproductive endocrinology towards the next millennium; endocrine, autocrine and paracrine regulation of ovarian steroidogenesis in polycystic ovary syndrome; the oestrogen receptor - changing concepts; clinical lessons from molecular biology; activin and inhibins in female reproductive function; involvement of interleukin-1 and the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist in in vitro embryo development among women undergoing in vitro fertilization embryo transfer; menstruation suppression in the treatment of catamenial diseases; retroperitoneal endometriosis; recurrence rate and fertility after laparoscopic excision of ovarian endometrioma; computers and robotic devices in endoscopic gynaecological surgery; computerized robotics - is this the final stage of development in surgery; postmenopausal genital bleeding; potential of DHEA as hormone replacement therapy; SERMs - new option for postmenopausal women; vaginal progesterone in menopause - cyclical and constant combined regimens for new physiological options in HRT; postmenopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer; the benefits and risks involved in treating impotence; institutional role in women's health issues - the role of FIGO; regulation of proliferation and apoptosis of uterine myometria and leiomyoma by sex steroid hormones; programmed cell death in the foetal membranes; contraception for young adults - non-hormonal methods; medical recommendations for the safe use of mifepristone; abortion induction with misoprostol; the role of hysteroscopy in the evaluation of the mechanism of carcinogenesis in endometrial polyps; fertiloscopy.