8 articles in this issue
Ari Mulyani Ari Mulyani
Background: Neonatal sepsis remains a diagnostic challenge due to its nonspesific symptoms. Blood culture examination which is considered to be the gold standard, sometimes it is still a problem because takes time to get the result, expensive and not ever... see more
Daniel Susatyo Wirawan Daniel Susatyo Wirawan
Background: Twenty two point two percent of Indonesian population are adolescents, and 50.9% of them are male. The development characteristics during puberty are growth spurt, sexual maturation, and secondary sexual development, and these characteristics ... see more
Etty Indriati Etty Indriati
Human behavior, tradition, habit, and culture are closely associated with human biological condition, their health and sickness. Thus, human's habits and activities mimic in their health and sickness. Among human cultural traditions reviewed are coca-leaf... see more
Hariadi Hariadi
Background: Misoprostol is now widely used as an agent for the induction of labor, although the effectiveness of its use in premature rupture of the membrane is questionable.Objectives: To compare the effectiveness of vaginal versus oral administration of... see more
Puji Astuti Puji Astuti
Background: The high incidence of microbial infection and the emergence of drug resistant and multidrugresistant microbes as well as the lack of any current chemotherapy augmented the necessity to search for new and better antimicrobial drug. Marine inver... see more
Rina Triasih Rina Triasih
Background: The practice of early discharge in healthy term newborns results in difficulty for recognition, follow-up and early treatment of hyperbilirubinemia, the most common cause of readmission in term newborns.Objectives: The aim of the study was to ... see more
Suhardjo Suhardjo
Background: Human amniotic membrane has anti-adhesive properties and is felt to promote epithelization and decrease inflammation. Fresh human amniotic membrane transplantation has been shown to be effective in the reconstruction of the corneal surface in ... see more
Wasilah Rochmah Wasilah Rochmah
Background: Age is one of the impaired glucose tolerance risks. Impaired glucose tolerance may be caused by the decrease of pancreatic B cells insulin secretion, or by the decrease of target tissue cell glucose uptake. Glucose tolerance tests which were c... see more