BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to explore women's views of the design of a large pragmatic cost-effectiveness randomised controlled trial of the policy of offering a health professional-delivered intervention to promote early presentation with breast symptoms in older women and thereby improve survival, with a view to informing protocol development. The trial will recruit over 100,000...

Method 20 pediatric (12 male and 8 female) patients, with mean age of 8.5 having severe persistent allergic asthma, with recurrent exacerbations and on oral/IV steroids, prospectively received Omalizumab 150mg/300mg, depending on IgE & body weight for 6 month to 1 year,at B.R.Singh Hospital, Kolkata. Number of exacerbations, total dose of oral Steroids, use of rescue medications, ICS/LABA dose ...

The second part of this presentation continues the discussion about communication and the importance of using appropriate words. Consider the connotations of the words being used. For example, instead of referring to a "recall" appointment, consider "follow-up visit." Recall brings to mind something that is defective. When someone is not available, it is not necessary to say that the person is ...

We thank all families who kindly participated in the study. We are grateful to the Housing Department of the Birmingham City Council, Mrs Daphne Agnew, the staff of the seven hostels, the head teachers of the schools involved in the selection of the comparison sample, and Mr Saeed Haque for the statistical advice. Contributors: PV participated in the formulation of the study hypothesis, researc...

From 1975 to 1990 we performed subtalar or triple arthrodesis on 54 patients; 48 of them were reviewed after a mean follow-up of 10 years (6 to 15). There were 17 subtalar fusions in 14 patients and 37 triple arthrodeses in 28 patients. We assessed tibiotalar ankle function using the criteria of Mazur which gives a points score of a maximum of 100. Radiological evidence of degenerative change w...

Liposarcoma is the most common pathology seen in the soft tissue sarcoma of retroperitoneum. These tumors have been traditionally treated with radical surgery sacrificing adjacent organs to achieve clear margins. We have reported our experience of renal sparing surgery for perirenal liposarcoma in two patients with more than 24 month disease free survival.

BACKGROUND Little is known about reasons that influence parents' decision to participate in studies enrolling healthy children. The aim of this observational study was to verify the reasons that lead pregnant women to give their consent or to refuse participation to a newborn cohort study with a long follow up time. METHODS To prospectively investigate the reasons that lead women to participa...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine whether attitude to school is associated with subsequent risk of teenage pregnancy. To test two hypotheses that attitude to school is linked to pregnancy via pathways involving young people having "alternative" expectations or deficits in sexual health knowledge and confidence. DESIGN Analysis of longitudinal data arising from a trial of sex education. Examination o...

OBJECTIVE To assess the performance of the universal newborn hearing screen in England. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of population screening records. STUDY SAMPLE A total of 4 645 823 children born 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2013. RESULTS 97.5% of the eligible population complete screening by 4/5 weeks of age and 98.9% complete screening by three months of age. The refer rate for the 12/13...

Accurate rates of herpes zoster incidence and complication have become of greater interest as studies have suggested an increasing temporal trend in incidence rates across all age groups and long-term follow-up studies of vaccine effectiveness are required by the Food and Drug Administration. This study compares the results obtained from the most commonly used method to obtain herpes zoster dat...