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PubMed2003

Highlights of the 11th Congress of the International Headache Society, held September 13-16, 2003, in Rome, Italy. Updating the headache classification system.

The International Headache Society held their 11th biennial congress in Rome, Italy, on September 13-16, 2003. The meeting featured the introduction of the second edition to the International Classification of Headache Disorders, the first update to the document since its presentation in 1988. This report discusses some of the different classifications of headache and their treatments as discussed at the congress.

Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal↗

PubMed2004

International Congress of Biological Psychiatry. 8-13 February 2004, Sydney, Australia.

Approximately 1500 psychiatrists, psychologists and basic scientists attended the International Congress of Biological Psychiatry with a specialist interest in the biological aspects of psychiatry. There was relatively little information on new medications for the treatment of psychiatric disorders but the congress emphasized approaches to treatment based on medications and physical therapies, as well as advances in the understanding of the biological basis of psychiatric illnesses. Around 800 abstracts were presented in symposia, sponsored satellite sessions, free communications and poster sessions. The poster sessions were particularly well attended and provided many lively discussions. Of particular interest were sessions devoted to new antipsychotics for the treatment of schizophrenia, management of mood and anxiety disorder, Alzheimer's disease and bipolar disorder. This report describes information on the new antipsychotic drug aripiprazole, novel targets for the treatment of mood disorders and psychoses, GABAA receptors in the treatment of panic disorder, and poster presentations on bipolar disorder.

Animals↗

PubMed2004

[Congress of the American Urological Association (AUA): update on prostate cancer].

At the last congress of the American Urological Association (AUA), which took place in San Francisco from the 9th to the 12th May 2004, more than 200 abstracts on prostate cancer were presented as posters or as full communications. We present here the highlights of this congress and in particular the main subjects of news, controversies or innovations. Two major topics are particularly worthy of discussion: localized disease on the one hand and locally advanced or metastatic disease on the other. In the chapter on localized disease, we expound the most relevant data on epidemiology, screening, staging and prognosis. For the locally advanced disease we discuss quality of life, prognostic factors and recent advances in hormone therapy and chemotherapy.

Combined Modality Therapy↗

PubMed2001

European Society of Intensive Care Medicine--14th annual congress.

The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) annual congress provided an opportunity for basic scientists and clinicians to share recent findings. In addition to the numerous free communications, several sessions by established speakers were dedicated to state-of-the-art tutorials. As usual, the areas of interest varied widely, reflecting the large array of 'critical illnesses'. Results of clinical trials and experimental findings with recently developed drugs were presented, essentially in the fields of inflammation, sepsis and acute lung injury. It is evident that the benefits of several new compounds observed experimentally need to be confirmed in the clinic. The ESICM congress is a unique opportunity to implement and promote collaborations between European basic scientists and clinicians.

Journal Article↗

PubMed2001

European Society of Cardiology--XXIII congress. New and established therapies.

The annual European Society of Cardiology XXIII Congress was an internationally represented meeting, focusing on the latest developments in cardiac pharmaceutical research and clinical applications. Poster and oral presentations displayed the importance of clinical trials for safety and efficacy of current drugs mainly acting on blocking of signaling pathways in the hyperactivated failing heart or prevention and reversion of vessel occlusions. Additionally, several new drug classes were introduced and tested in small-scale studies. In addition to improved surgical methods discussed at the congress, new classes of minimally invasive treatments were reported, including gene therapy and cell transplantation techniques which could provide additional future cure for cardiac patients.

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PubMed1999

International Congress of Chemotherapy--21st meeting. 4-7 July 1999, Birmingham, UK.

Held every two years, the International Congress of Chemotherapy (ICC) represents one of the most important scientific meetings focusing on antimicrobial and anticancer research as well as therapeutics. The chairman of the scientific committee of the congress, Richard Wise (Professor in Clinical Microbiology, Birmingham University, UK) described the meeting as a timely opportunity to review and discuss the challenges and advances in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infection. 3300 Delegates from 78 countries were in attendance.

Journal Article↗

PubMed1999

Inflammation--fourth world congress. 27-30 June 1999, Palais de Congrès, Paris, France.

The city of Paris was the setting for the Fourth World Congress of Inflammation, a congress held every two years; the last was held in Japan in 1997. The conference brought together distinguished speakers involved in state-of-the-art investigations in inflammation. The increasing knowledge obtained in recent years regarding the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases and the involvement of mediators has led to increasing therapeutic targets. Many delegates from industry and academia attended and were treated to an excellent array of plenary lectures, simultaneous symposia and lunchtime poster sessions highlighting the most recent research in inflammation.

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PubMed2006

Back on the center stage. Republicans' losses in Congress cause speculation among industry insiders on changes in lawmakers' healthcare agendas.

Democrats are returning to power in Congress, wielding an agenda with a strong healthcare theme. While opinions vary about how successful the new majority party on Capitol Hill will be, observers expect big changes. "I believe that providers are hopeful that the new Congress will make our nation's health and our healthcare system a priority," says Bill Robertson, left, CEO at Adventist Healthcare System.

Forecasting↗

PubMed1991

Programme notes. 36th IPA Congress, Rome, 1989. The search for common ground: clinical aims and processes.

This paper presents a summary and an overview of the 36th IPA Congress, 'Common ground in psychoanalysis: clinical aims and processes'. The theme emerged from Dr Robert Wallerstein's 1987 Montreal Congress Plenary Address, 'One psychoanalysis or many'. The paper focuses on the three Rome Plenary presentations and their discussions, Wallerstein's presidential address, and the final panel review. A paper presented at the meeting by Charles Hanly, 'The concept of truth in psychoanalysis', which outlines theories of truth: correspondence versus coherence, provides the conceptual tools for considering the different points of view. The author shares Hanly's support for a pragmatically qualified commitment to a correspondence theory of truth.

Humans↗

PubMed1990

High Medicare hospitals seek fair share from Congress.

Hospitals with high levels of Medicare patients convinced Congress that they deserved a different rate of payment from other hospitals. Now, prospects are dimming for urban and other hospitals seeking a special funding increase for their high Medicare patient loads. The Prospective Payment Assessment Commission has advised Congress that special treatment should not be granted until further study has been completed. This article looks at both sides of the debate and gives a statistical picture of Medicare-dependent hospitals.

Economics, Hospital↗

PubMed1998

[Methodology for assessing continuing medical education at the first united French congress of pneumology].

The evaluation of continuing medical education (CME) courses will soon become one of the tools used to assess post-graduate training, particularly in compliance with the recent legislation. In 1997, the organization committee of the French congress of pneumology decided to analyze the different methodologies used to assess the congress CME courses. The analysis was based on a satisfaction questionnaire, a before-after assessment of 4 workshops, and a comparison between participants and non-participants in 3 plenary sessions. Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon non-parametric tests were used for statistical analysis. Satisfaction scores were high. For the plenary sessions, test results were better for participants than for the non-participant controls and for the workshops, test results were higher after completion. This type of study can only evaluate the level of knowledge acquired and is subject to a selection bias. It cannot analyze the practical impact of the courses nor their effect on patient health. Such assessment methodologies should be used more widely in order to improve future training sessions.

Education, Medical, Continuing↗

PubMed2005

Further steps towards data standardisation: the Proteomic Standards Initiative HUPO 3(rd) annual congress, Beijing 25-27(th) October, 2004.

The increasing volume of proteomics data currently being generated by increasingly high-throughput methodologies has led to an increasing need for methods by which such data can be accurately described, stored and exchanged between experimental researchers and data repositories. Work by the Proteomics Standards Initiative of the Human Proteome Organisation has laid the foundation for the development of standards by which experimental design can be described and data exchange facilitated. The progress of these efforts, and the direct benefits already accruing from them, were described at a plenary session of the 3(rd) Annual HUPO congress. Parallel sessions allowed the three work groups to present their progress to interested parties and to collect feedback from groups already implementing the available formats.

China↗

PubMed1999

[Fate of presentations given at German anesthesia congresses].

BACKGROUND: To evaluate the publication rate of abstracts presented during the German Anaesthesia Congress (DAK) in MEDLINE-listed journals in comparison to the publication rate of abstracts presented during the meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiologists (ESA). METHODS: All abstracts of free papers (FP, orals) and posters of the 1994 DAK and the 1994 ESA meeting were included. Over a period of approximately 7 years (1993 to May 1999) the appearance of authors and abstracts topics in the literature were searched with the help of MEDLINE. Only original papers were included in the analysis. RESULTS: All 322 abstracts (268 FPs and 54 posters) of the DAK and all 244 abstracts (81 FP and 163 posters) of the ESA were analyzed. A total 122 of the DAK abstracts (37.9% of all abstracts) and 111 of the ESA abstracts (45.5% of all abstracts) were published in MEDLINE-listed journals. Posters presented at the DAK were as published often (37%) as were oral presentations (38%). Of the 122 abstracts of the DAK that were published 71 (58.2%) were published in English (in 38 different journals) and 51 (41.8%) were published in German (in 8 different journals), whereas 102 (92%) of the ESA abstracts were published in english (in 42 different journals). CONCLUSION: The overall portion of abstracts of the DAK published in MEDLINE indexed journals within 7 years was disappointing. The reasons for this may include deliberate avoidance of a publication (e.g. due to lack of interest to publish, no time) or low quality of the abstract that hinders publication in a MEDLINE indexed journal.

Anesthesiology↗

PubMed2003

[Teleteaching in otorhinolaryngology (part 1). Real-time transmission of a congress in picture and tone into the Internet].

The transmission of scientific seminars into the Internet represents a new application of modern technologies for teleteaching. We digitally recorded 74 seminars and discussions during the 8th annual meeting of the German Society of Skull Base Surgery with five cameras and eight microphones, and transformed the data live with the real-Producer using a video card.This transferred data stream was sent via ISDN (128 kbit/s) to a real-server at the university, which was used for distribution in the net. The seminars could be called up in the display format of 320x240 pixels with a delay of 3 min (minimum: 30 s, as a function of the connection of the user) at each computer with Internet entrance. Altogether,we registered 3,284 accesses to the presentations following the congress until June 2002. The quality of picture transmission (24-36 kbit/s) and the quality of tone (audio stream: 5 kbit/s) were sufficient to understand the contents of the slide, video or computer presentation. The transmission of scientific meetings into the Internet can increase, with a justifiable technical expenditure, their efficiency by the ubiquitous availability of the information and the extension of the audience.

Computer Systems↗

PubMed2006

Scientific papers presented at the European Congress of Radiology: a two-year comparison.

The purpose of this report was to determine the rate at which abstracts orally presented at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2001 were published in 2001-2005 Medline-indexed journals and to compare publication rates and factors with presentations at the ECR in two different periods (2001 and 2000). Absolute and relative publication rates (APR, RPR) and different publication-related factors were analysed. From 991 abstracts originating from 52 countries, 449 articles (APR 45%) were subsequently published in 125 journals, most frequently in European Radiology (n=79, 18%). Country of origin statistically (p<0.0001) influences subsequent publication of the abstract, with Germany having the highest number of presentations (n=300) and derived articles (n=175, RPR 58%) whereas Sweden had the highest RPR (82%). Interventional and physics studies had the highest RPR (59% and 58%, respectively). The ECR meeting has a very high and stable APR (ECR 2001: 45% vs ECR 2000: 47%), and the journal European Radiology had the larger number of related publications (18% RPR following ECR 2001 compared with 14% from ECR 2000). Germany had the highest number of presentations and publications for both meetings. The highest RPR for ECR 2001 was found in interventional and physics studies whereas chest and cardiac studies had the highest RPR for ECR 2000.

Abstracting and Indexing↗

PubMed1998

Bus rounds for medical congresses on palliative care.

Three 4-hour bus rounds were organized as part of an international palliative care congress, to promote patient-based education both at home and in acute care hospitals. Patient cases were presented and discussed en route to and from each visit. A total of 23 medical specialists visited 16 patients (10 in three different hospitals and 6 at home). A mean of 5.3 cases were presented during each round. A total of nine journal club articles were presented, a mean of three (2-4) articles per round. A questionnaire was filled out anonymously by all 23 participants. On a scale of 1 (worst) to 5 (best) they gave the rounds an overall rating of 5 (range 4-5). These findings suggest bus rounds provide an opportunity for intensive exposure to patient-based learning, both in acute care hospitals and at home.

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PubMed2005

Staphylococcus aureus carriage among participants at the 13th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

The aim of this study was to measure the rate of Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization among attendees of the 13th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), particularly with regard to methicillin-resistant (MRSA) strains. The 31.4% rate of Staphylococcus aureus colonization detected among the participants was in line with colonization rates reported previously for healthcare workers. A statistical difference was found between the rates of Staphylococcus aureus carriage in physicians (37.4%) and non-physicians (21.7%) but not between males (35.0%) and females (28.9%). Only one participant (a Belgian physician) was found to carry MRSA. Surprisingly, the rate of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus carriage was significantly higher among participants from countries with a low prevalence of MRSA.

Carrier State↗

PubMed2004

The International Congress on Toxoplasmosis.

Toxoplasma gondii is an important pathogen in both veterinary and human medicine. Infection during pregnancy can result in fetal transmission and a congenital infection syndrome. In immune-compromised hosts reactivation of latent infection can result in encephalitis. It has been estimated that as many as one-third of the human population harbours this zoonosis. The Seventh International Congress on Toxoplasmosis, organised by Louis M. Weiss and Kami Kim (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY) was held on 23-27 May 2003 in Tarrytown, New York. At this meeting 133 investigators from 14 countries presented 102 papers on research involving this model Apicomplexan parasite. The presented research covered the epidemiology, immunology, cellular biology and molecular biology of this pathogen.

Animals↗