Effects of air pollution on clinical pregnancy rates after in vitro fertilisation (IVF): a retrospective cohort study.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of air pollution, from oocyte retrieval to embryo transfer, on the results of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in terms of clinical pregnancy rates, at two fertility centres, from 2013 to 2019.

Design: Exploratory retrospective cohort study.

Setting: This retrospective cohort study was performed in the Reproductive Biology Department of Bordeaux University Hospital localised in Bordeaux, France and the Jean Villar Fertility Center localised in Bruges, France.

Jobs and job quality between the eve of the Great Recession and the eve of COVID-19.

In 2019, the employment rate among 25- to 64-year-olds in the UK reached 80 per cent - the highest on record, and considerably higher than the 76 per cent rate recorded shortly before the Great Recession. In this paper, we investigate the growth in employment between the eve of the Great Recession and the eve of COVID-19 across several dimensions. We analyse which sectors, demographic groups and regions accounted for the rise.

Evidence of 131I and (134,137)Cs activities in Bordeaux, France due to the Fukushima nuclear accident.

Following the Fukushima nuclear accident, low-background gamma spectrometry measurements were performed with HPGe detectors at the PRISNA platform located at the CENBG laboratory in Bordeaux, France. Different kinds of samples were collected and measured between March 26 and May 14, 2011. The first fission product observed was (131)I with maximum activity values of 2.

Cervicovaginal smear abnormalities in sexually active adolescents. Implications for management.

Objective: To assess the prevalence and spectrum of Pap smear (PS) abnormalities in sexually active adolescents in comparison to adult women in order to determine whether management of adolescents should differ from that of adults.

Study Design: Five hundred twenty-four adolescents who had an initial PS at our institution from January to September 1997 were followed for 36 months with repeat PS and/or cervical biopsy. Initial PS results were compared with those of adult women.

Massive Exfoliation of Markedly Atypical Cells in Urine Resulting from Polyoma Virus Interstitial Nephritis.

Polyoma virus nephritis is increasingly being recognized as a cause of allograft dysfunction in renal transplant patients. We describe and illustrate the findings in a renal biopsy and a concurrent urine sample from a patient with polyoma virus nephritis. The urine cytology findings were highly suggestive of a tumor due to the presence of large number of atypical cells with marked hyperchromasia, high nuclear/cytoplasmic ratio in a necrotic background.