The availability of contraceptive methods in Turkish pharmacies and the status of pharmacies and pharmacists as providers of contraception.

Objectives: We aimed to assess pharmacists' contraceptive knowledge and evaluate the contraceptives requested and sold in pharmacies.

Methods: A descriptive study was carried out in October 2016 in cooperation with the Chamber of Pharmacists of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Data were collected by questionnaire, and pharmacists' total knowledge scores were calculated.

Men's Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Breast Cancer: A Descriptive Study.

Objective: Breast cancer (BC) is an important disease for women. BC influences both patient's and relatives' lives. Especially, husbands/boyfriends/ lovers are the ones that are affected mostly.

Carotid Intima-Media Thickness as the Cardiometabolic Risk Indicator in Patients with Nonfunctional Adrenal Mass and Metabolic Syndrome Screening.

Background: Our purpose was to show the association of adrenal incidentaloma and metabolic syndrome in consideration of the studies and to detect the increase in the carotid intima-media thickness which is regarded as the precessor of atherosclerosis.

Material/methods: Eighty-one patients who were diagnosed with adrenal mass were included in the study. Hormonal evaluation, insulin rezistance measurement with the HOMA-IR and 1-mg DST were performed of all patients.