OBJECTIVE To increase breast cancer (BC) awareness, screening services, and education for local underserved women. DESIGN Mayo Clinic launched a twice-monthly, half-day outreach breast clinic composed of 3 women physicians, a nurse and medical interpreters. SETTING Community Adult Literacy Learning Center in Rochester, Minnesota. PATIENTS Underserved women from immigrant and minority back...

The consortium consists of ten partners from Austria, Finland, Germany, Greece and Switzerland. They reflect different forms of government and public administrations throughout Europe. The partners represent a balanced mixture of public and private research institutions, local and global public administrations as well as relevant providers. S Si ie e m me e n ns s A A u us st t r ri ia a ((F Fi...

UNLABELLED Many women fail to be reassured about their breast symptom following benign diagnosis. Identification of the factors contributing to this continued anxiety is important in order that appropriate intervention can be incorporated into the care of women undergoing diagnosis. In this study, we measured levels of anxiety, depression, stress, perceived personal risk of breast cancer, fear ...

Magnetic Resonant Imaging (MRI) has demonstrated that we can differentiate the uterus in 3 important functional areas. Exploration of the uterus in the infertile patient should implement the evaluation of the endometrium, the Junctional zone myometrium (JZ), the outer myometrium and the cervical canal. Especially the JZ myometrium should receive our close attention in the exploration and treatm...

Background There is increasing pressure on emergency services within the NHS requiring efficient, rapid assessment and management of patients. A subsequent reduction in hospital admissions reduces overall costs with an aim to improve quality of care. At the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital we run a one stop emergency surgical clinic. With strict criteria for admission to this clinic we have establishe...

We describe a 'one-stop' cholesterol clinic implementing a regime based on the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S) in patients with established coronary heart disease in a district general hospital. The clinic has been established in collaboration with the cardiac rehabilitation centre. It was commissioned as an audit project by the purchasing authority, Walsall Health, a need having b...