Adolescent girls' attitudes on human papillomavirus vaccination.

Study Objective: The objective of the study was to assess the attitudes of adolescent girls on Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and the impact of an information pamphlet on their attitude. Other factors that may affect their attitude were also studied.

Design: Questionnaire survey.

Women's attitudes on human papillomavirus vaccination to their daughters.

This study assessed the impact of an information pamphlet on acceptance of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in Chinese women. The pamphlet increased the self-perceived knowledge on cervical cancer and HPV of the study subjects and had a positive influence on women accepting HPV vaccination for their daughters (p < .001).

Heterobimetallic Zn(II)-Ln(III) phenylene-bridged schiff base complexes, computational studies, and evidence for singlet energy transfer as the main pathway in the sensitization of near-infrared Nd3+ luminescence.

A series of 3d-4f heterobimetallic phenylene-bridged Schiff base complexes of the general formula [Zn(mu-L1)Ln(NO3)3(S)n] [Ln = La (1), Nd (2), Gd (3), Er (4), Yb (5); S = H(2)O, EtOH; n = 1, 2; H2L1 = N,N'-bis(3-methoxysalicylidene)phenylene-1,2-diamine] and [Zn(mu-L2)Ln(NO3)3(H2O)n] [Ln = La (6), Nd (7), Gd (8), Er (9), Yb (10); n = 1, 2; H(2)L(2) = N,N'-bis(3-methoxy-5-p-tolylsalicylidene)phenylene-1,2-diamine] were synthesized and characterized. Complexes 1, 2, 4, and 7 were structurally characterized by X-ray crystallography. At room temperature in CH(3)CN, both neodymium(III) (2 and 7) and ytterbium(III) (5 and 10) complexes also exhibited, in addition to the ligand-centered emission in the UV-vis region, their lanthanide(III) ion emission in the near-infrared (NIR) region.

Multinuclear luminescent Schiff-base Zn-Nd sandwich complexes.

Multinuclear 3d-4f complexes with sandwichlike molecular structures are formed with the Schiff-base ligand bis(3-methoxysalicylidene)ethylene-1,2-phenylenediamine(H(2)L). The stoichiometry and structures are dependent on the Zn:Nd ratio and counteranions present. They are trinuclear [Nd(ZnL)2(NO3)2(H2O)2].

Synthesis and crystal structure of the first lanthanide complex of N-confused porphyrin with an eta2 agostic C-H interaction.

The reaction of Ln[N(SiMe3)2]3.[LiCl(THF)3](x)(Ln = Yb and Er) with N-confused tetraphenylporphyrin (H2NCTPP) followed by Na(L(OMe))(L(OMe)=(eta5-C5H5)Co[P(=O)(OMe)2]) gives (NCTPP)Ln(L(OMe)), whose X-ray structures exhibit an eta2 agostic interaction between the metal centre and the inner C-H bond of the NCTPP ligand.

Psychiatric morbidity amongst infertile Chinese women undergoing treatment with assisted reproductive technology and the impact of treatment failure.

This is a prospective study to assess the psychiatric morbidity in Chinese infertile women who underwent treatments with assisted reproductive technology and also the impact of treatment failure. The 30-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) were employed before and 3 weeks after the assisted reproductive technology treatment. Data from 372 patients who completed the questionnaires and failed the treatment were analyzed.

Symptomatic venous thromboembolism in Chinese patients after gynecologic surgery: incidence and disease pattern.

Background: Venous thromboembolism is a common cause of postoperative morbidity and mortality in Caucasian populations, but it is widely believed that this complication is rare in Chinese.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective study from January 1998 to December 2000. Women with thromboembolic diseases after gynecologic surgery were identified and their medical records were reviewed.