Propofol use in children: updates and controversies.

Advantages of propofol use in children may include less airway complications, less emergence agitation, and less postoperative behavioral changes. However, needle phobia and the complexity of total intravenous anesthesia set-up, as well as the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic restrictions may limit the wide use of propofol-based anesthesia in the form of total intravenous anesthesia. Furthermore, pediatric infusion models and monitoring techniques are not fully validated yet.

Fertility drugs and risk of ovarian cancer: dispelling the myth.

Purpose Of Review: Worldwide 50-80 million people suffer from infertility. Assisted reproductive technology has provided a way of overcoming infertility and childlessness. The current article will focus on data linking infertility and its treatment to ovarian cancer.