Background: In our hospital, a mini-lecture is given before a social gathering during “Cancer Salon-”
Purpose: To examine Significance of the mini-lecture.
Method: The results of a questionnaire survey of the participants were summarized.
Results: The mini-lectures were performed by multidisciplinary persons. The survey found that a significantly large number of the participants felt the mini-lectures by persons other than medical doctors were helpful (p=0.021).
Discussion: Mini-lectures are valuable in that they provide not only information but also “create an atmosphere” of the following meeting. In addition, to receive a favorable assessment from the audience, it is important for the speakers, even the doctors, to understand the feelings of the participants, and take part in the subsequent get-together without formality.
Conclusion: The mini-lecture creates an atmosphere toward the social gatherings, and leads the speakers to adapt to the occasion with the participants.

In Japan, there are insufficient measures to ensure that women can maintain good health while working. In addition, many women have limited health literacy, making it difficult for them to access information on physical and mental health problems that are specific to them. In this context, it is essential for pharmacists to become the first point of contact for women seeking information about their physical health, as they are familiar with healthcare providers in the community. To address this issue, we organized a Women's Health Care Cafe for pharmacy students to provide them with an opportunity to learn about women's health.

[Objective] To report the activity by the athletic trainer in a collegiate boxing club, focusing on acupuncture for medical treatment.
[Methods] The athletic trainer was Japan a Japan Sports Association certifiedathletic trainer who was a practitioner of acupuncture and moxibustion. Subjects were twenty-seven collegiate boxers who participated for one year from April, 2004 to March, 2005.
[Results] The activity by the athletic trainer was performed for thirty two days. Medical treatment was performed up to 2.2 times a day. Seventy-one people were treated by the athletic trainer. Medical treatments were acupuncture 28 (39.4%), massage 24 (33.8%), taping 4 (5.6%), and partner stretch 3 (4.2%). Thirteen people (48.1%) had acupuncture. In acupuncture, fifteen people (50%) had a chief complaint in the hand.
[Discussion] Acupuncture was requested by the boxers. The continuation of the activity by the athletic trainer was required for boxing.

Endoventricular circular patch plasty (the Dor procedure) has been demonstrated to improve outcome in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy. However, in some of them congestive heart failure (CHF) occurred during follow-up. This study examined the effects of the Dor procedure on the long-term survival and predictors of CHF after this procedure. Hemodynamic and clinical results were analyzed and predictors of CHF were examined. Postoperative ESVI in the CHF group was larger than that in the non-CHF group. The delayed MR rate was greater following the CHF group (82.4%) compared to the non-CHF group (19.2%). Despite mitral valve repair (N=8), 3 patients had delayed MR. All of them were greater than MR³. Hemodynamic and clinical results were improved by the Dor procedure. However, cardiac events were usually occurred during the follow-up. The predictor of CHF was delayed MR. Therefore, patients with preoperative MR should be treated. If preoperative MR is greater than 3, there will be MR recurrence cases after MVP only. Therefore, patients with preoperative MR (3 or 4) should be treated by alternative surgical procedures.