Menstrual health and hygiene among young Palestinian female university students in the West Bank: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: We investigated some aspects of menstrual health and hygiene among young female students at Birzeit University in the West Bank of the occupied Palestinian territory.

Design: Cross-sectional study in a large central university.

Participants: Out of a total of 8473 eligible female students, a calculated sample size of 400 students aged between 16 and 27 years was obtained.

An Easy-to-Use Prognostic Model for Survival Estimation for Patients with Symptomatic Long Bone Metastases.

Background: A survival estimation for patients with symptomatic long bone metastases (LBM) is crucial to prevent overtreatment and undertreatment. This study analyzed prognostic factors for overall survival and developed a simple, easy-to-use prognostic model.

Methods: A multicenter retrospective study of 1,520 patients treated for symptomatic LBM between 2000 and 2013 at the radiation therapy and/or orthopaedic departments was performed.

[Schizophrenia and violence, incidence and risk factors: a Tunisian sample].

Introduction: Schizophrenia appears to be the mental pathology the most associated with violence. The aim of this study is to show the incidence and the different risk factors of violence among schizophrenics.

Material And Method: We have compared a group of 30 violent schizophrenic inpatients with another group of 30 nonviolent schizophrenic inpatients hospitalised during the same period.