PURPOSE An outreach program created to assist an outpatient hospital pharmacy with helping patients unable to afford the cost of prescriptions and to increase patient access to medications is described. SUMMARY The MassMedLine pharmacy outreach program operates as a pharmacist-run call center that provides Massachusetts residents with information about appropriate medication assistance progra...

Highlights from past columns include: • Research programs Programs featured in the Extramural Update have included Superfund, Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers, Children’s Centers, Parkinson’s Disease Collaborative Centers, and the Worker Education and Training Program. Newly developed programs described have included the DISCOVER Program, Outstanding New Environmental Scientists (ONES...

Health providers have played important roles on delivering prevention and care services to control syphilis in China. The current study was aimed to evaluate the performance of different health providers in providing outreach syphilis testing services to female sex workers (FSWs). The current study carried out during April to August 2009 in Liuzhou was aimed to investigate the services delivere...

The field of neuroscience is generating increased public appetite for information about exciting brain research and discoveries. As stewards of the discipline, together with FUN and others, the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) embraces public outreach and education as essential to its mission of promoting understanding of the brain and nervous system. The Society looks to its members, particularl...

IMPORTANCE The need for suitable organs for transplantation is especially pronounced in minority populations such as Hispanic Americans owing to disproportionately high rates of diabetes mellitus and kidney disease. Considerable barriers exist for Hispanic Americans consent to donation, resulting in significantly lower donation rates compared with white individuals. OBJECTIVE To investigate t...

BACKGROUND The huge back-log of obstetric fistula and the increasing incidence of the condition in Nigeria is a cause for concern for all stake-holders. This worrisome trend requires concerted effort with innovative strategies to redress the situation. METHODS Hospital-based outreach programs sponsored by a non-governmental organization with volunteer medical and health personnel were used to...

Background India’s economic growth rate in recent years has been fairly impressive. But, it has been consistently failing to make considerable progress in achieving health related Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. Lack of coherence between provisions and utilization becomes the face of the problem. Inadequacies in outreach, access and affordability coupled with escalating healthcare co...

OBJECTIVES The Black church has a long history of addressing unmet health and human service needs, yet few studies have examined characteristics of churches involved in health promotion. METHODS Data obtained from a survey of 635 Black churches in the northern United States were examined. Univariate and multivariate statistical procedures identified eight characteristics associated with commu...