Psychiatric evaluation of self-referred and non-self-referred active duty military members.

This study examined 300 cases of active duty Air Force members seen in an Air Force medical center outpatient mental health clinic over a 1-year period. Comparisons were made between self-referred and non-self-referred (commander-directed) patients across several areas, including chief complaints/referral reasons, diagnoses, personality features, dispositions, and numbers of therapy sessions. Results showed significantly different distributions of types of chief complaints, dispositions, and treatment sessions between the two groups, and provided relative proportions of personality types distributed within each group.

Effect of clomiphene citrate treatment on endometrial estrogen and progesterone receptor induction in women.

A direct adverse effect of clomiphene citrate on the endometrium has been presumed, and interference with estrogen receptor-mediated endometrial estrogen receptor and progesterone receptor induction has been implicated as the mechanism responsible for an increased incidence of luteal phase deficiency in association with clomiphene citrate treatment. To clarify the net influence of clomiphene administration on endometrial steroid receptor induction, we studied five normal ovulatory women, in both a spontaneous and clomiphene-induced (150 mg/day, cycle days 5 to 9) ovulatory cycle. From cycle day 11 blood samples were obtained daily and urinary luteinizing hormone determinations were performed twice daily.