Maternal mortality is boui publi~ health and social problem: The death of a mother will affect the family, especially the children. In the developed countries, with their high socio- economic ~taius, maternal deaths have declined to its minimal level, less than 10 deaths among 100,000 life births. That is not the case in the developing countries: Indonesia included, Despite its continued econo…
Non tuberculosis mycobacteria (NTM) could be the causative agents of various clinical infections, especially in immunocompromised individuals. However, frequency of this bacteria among Mycobacterium isolates is not ye known. Moraver, their pattern of resistance to antituberculosis drugs has not been reported. The aim of the study is to determine the frequency of NTM among isoniazid resistant My…
Abstract. Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) is a connective tissue disease of the unknown causes that characterized by fibrosis of skin and visceral organs as well as micro vascular abnormalities. The prevalency of the patients is relatively low with 50-300 cases per 1 million of the population and the incidence of 2.3 to 22.8 cases per I million population per year; however, the risk on women i…
Practicing to breastfeed the children up to two year of their age is not achieved yet. This leads to problem in the children such as diarrhea and undernutrition. Several studies showed that working mother, lateness on breastfeeding initiation, and promotion of breast milk substitution are the factors related to stop breastfeeding earlier which is less than 24 month of children’s age. This pap…
Propolis is resin with complex chemplex chemical composition that collected by honeybees from various plants. It has been known that propolis has several biological properties, such as antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory,antioxidant and immunomodulatory activities. The aim of this study is to evaluate the proporlis’s cytotoxic and antiproliferative activity in vitro on hela cell line. These cell…