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PubMed1990

[3d Congress of the German Dermatological Society 1891 in Leipzig].

The course and subject matter of the 3rd congress of the German Dermatological Society held in Leipzig 100 years ago, are described. The main topics were tuberculosis, eczema, theory of psorospermoses and venereology, and these, together with the clinical presentations, reflect the level of research at that time and the charisma of the personalities in dermatology. Some of the subjects discussed are still topical and are still providing the stimulus for future research activity.

Congresses as Topic↗
PubMed1994

[Current psychiatric problems at the Congress of the Società Freniatrica Italiana in Genoa (1904)].

At the beginning of XX century the new nosographic concepts expressed by Kräpelin were introduced in our country where, at an other side, the first asylum and psychiatric law was approved. At the XII Congress of the S.F.I. in Genoa many present problems in different fields of psychiatry (social psychiatry, psychiatric organization, neurology and psychiatry, somatic and mental etiology of psychiatric diseases, nosography, restraint, isolation, alcoholism) have been debated and original views have been expressed by some authors.

Congresses as Topic↗
PubMed1995

The Annual Scientific Congress of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) is responsible for the training, examination, and recertification of its fellows, who make up the great majority of the practicing specialist surgeons in Australia and New Zealand. One of the 16 Objects of the College is "To bring together the surgeons of Australia and New Zealand periodically for scientific discussion and practical demonstration of surgical subjects." In the furtherance of this object, there are many local and national meetings each year, but the highlight is the Annual Scientific Congress (ASC), held in each of the major cities on rotation, traditionally in the month of May, which is late autumn in the southern hemisphere.

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PubMed1999

Chromosome 4 Workshop Summary: Sixth World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Bonn, Germany, October 6-10, 1998.

This report summarizes the findings presented at the Chromosome 4 Workshop of the Sixth World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics (October 1998, Bonn, Germany). Chromosome 4 linkage and association results for several psychiatric phenotypes including bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, and mental retardation are reviewed. In bipolar affective disorder, positive linkage results for markers on 4q35 were reported by three independent groups. In addition, findings in bipolar disorder were reported for markers spanning 4p14-16, and of particular interest are the results that coincide with the original Blackwood et al. [1996: Nat Genet 12:427-430] region at 4p16. For schizophrenia, modest positive results were reported for 4q31, as well as for marker D4S2917 at a region of 4q close to the centromere. Chromosome 4 continues to demonstrate interesting results in alcoholism, particularly in the region of the alcohol dehydrogenase gene cluster; however, it is not clear how to interpret the contrast in the susceptibility versus protective loci that are being reported in this region.

Alcoholism↗
PubMed1993

Summary of the Third World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics.

A summary of the proceedings of the third world congress on psychiatric genetics is presented. The meeting was held in New Orleans on October 2-5, 1993 and brought together researchers from around the world. The International Society of Psychiatric Genetics sponsored and organized this meeting. Rapid advances of the last few years were reviewed and discussed in terms of their impact on the evolution of experimental design. The importance of definition of heritable clinical phenotypes, and the need to continue to enhance analytic methods were stressed as a priority for the field.

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PubMed2006

When is a "positive" association truly a "positive" in psychiatric genetics? A commentary based on issues debated at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, Boston, October 12-18, 2005.

The accumulated literature on candidate gene findings in psychiatric genetics is extensive. There is concern that many of the published findings to data are false positives. At the October 2005 World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics this issue was discussed by a panel of experts. This manuscript describes the panel discussion, its implications for the reporting of association studies of psychiatric disorders and suggestions for when to decide that a positive finding is truly positive.

Genetic Linkage↗
PubMed2006

Human Disease Glycomics/Proteome Initiative Workshop and the 4th HUPO Annual Congress.

At the Human Disease Glycomics/Proteome Initiative workshop held on August 27 on the occasion of the fourth HUPO Congress in Munich, Germany, the working groups reported on pilot studies, performed by 21 laboratories world-wide, to analyze glycan using MS. During the steering committee on July 31 in Osaka, Japan, it was reported that these groups have developed a system using MS to assess the world-wide network on the screening of congenital disorders of glycosylation. The concept of glycobioinformatics was also explained at this meeting. The session on PTMs laid particular emphasis on the importance of functional glycomics using glycosyltransferase genes as well as on the importance of identifying the target protein(s) carrying the sugar chains.

Carbohydrates↗
PubMed1978

On the mechanism of prometaphase congression: chromosome velocity as a function of position on the spindle.

Rates of movement of univalents at prometaphase and of half-bivalents at anaphase in living cricket and grasshopper spermatocytes were determined as a function of the distance from the pole toward which the movement was directed. In the artificially produced univalents of cricket cells, correlation coefficients for rate versus distance form the pole were widely disparate from movement to movement and there was no consistent relationship between velocity and distance from the pole. However, in the naturally occurring univalents of grasshopper cells, there was a significant positive correlation between velocity and distance from the pole. In both cricket and grasshopper cells, there was no consistent correlation between rate of movement and distance from the pole for half-bivalents at anaphase. The prometaphase data from grasshopper cells support the simple hypothesis of Ostergren (1950) that congression results from the application to chromosomes of forces which increase with increasing distance from the pole. Furthermore, these data are consistent with models of force production which suppose that the relationship between force (reflected as velocity) and distance from the pole is a linear one.

Animals↗
PubMed1979

Congress (and evaluators) ought to pay more attention to history.

In 1935, in 1965, and in 1972, the original Social Security Act and amendments to it were used by states to deinstitutionalize. In each instance a private, profit-making nursing home and board and care industry was stimulated. Poor care in such facilities was an unintended consequence of the legislation. Neither the Congress nor evaluators have clear concepts of what constitutes a life of decency and dignity for the chronically dependent. Behaviorally oriented social scientists and legislators have in common the difficulty of dealing with soft variables such as decency and dignity. In the absence of clear goals, care drifts below a lower threshold of acceptability and is corrected to some extent following public scandal. Social scientists need to learn to develop concepts and measurements suitable to monitoring the implementation of humane ideals.

Deinstitutionalization↗
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Challenges facing general internal medicine in the 99th Congress.

Since 1976, federal support for training in general internal medicine has been provided through the primary care residency programs under Title VII of the Public Health Service Act. Continuation of these programs is now in jeopardy because of severe fiscal pressures and the response of Congress to the resulting budgetary stringency. General internal medicine faces immediate problems in the budgetary, authorization, and appropriations arenas. However, Congressional proposals for changing the method by which Medicare pays for all graduate medical education may provide an important opportunity. Under a revised method of financing graduate medical education, general internal medicine could eliminate its historical dependence on increasingly unstable federal grant funds and could contribute to the development of new federal incentives for training in the primary care specialties.

Education, Medical, Graduate↗
PubMed2001

Careers in toxicology in Europe--options and requirements. Report of a workshop organized on behalf of the Individual Members of EUROTOX during the EUROTOX Congress 2000 in London (September 17-20, 2000).

In view of the lack of information regarding careers for toxicologists in Europe, the Individual Members of EUROTOX organised a workshop on careers in toxicology during the EUROTOX Congress 2000 in London. Toxicologists are mainly employed in academia, regulatory agencies, contract research organisations (CROs) and the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. There are also a few governmental institutes involved with toxicological work other than teaching or regulation. Toxicologists can also work as independent consultants, especially for commercial organisations. The requirements for starting a career in any of the above organisations, the need and the advantages and disadvantages of specialisation, and further career prospects are summarised and briefly discussed. The organisations, and also working as an independent toxicology consultant, offer interesting professional work of relevance to modern-day society. There is currently a shortage of toxicologists not only in the traditional field of risk assessment but also especially in new areas, e.g. toxicogenomics. This shortage may be at least in part due to insufficient training opportunities. Further consideration of career opportunities is planned and will be published in due course.

Career Mobility↗
PubMed2007

Highlights of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine Congress, Athens, Greece, 30 September to 4 October 2006.

The 2006 EANM Congress, held in Athens, Greece, was once again a major event in the nuclear medicine scientific and educational calendar. The scientific programme, which included the second biennial ISRTRD meeting, confirmed the major developments taking place in (1) the diagnostic and prognostic uses of nuclear medicine imaging (both in PET and in single-photon studies), (2) radionuclide therapies, (3) radiochemistry and radiopharmacy, and (4) physics. This paper outlines the major findings in each of these areas.

Clinical Trials as Topic↗
PubMed1998

Highlights lecture of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine and the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology Congress, Berlin 1998. Where next and how?

Nuclear medicine benefits not only the people of developed countries but also those who are in developing or deteriorating countries. The combination of diagnostic imaging, tissue characterisation, function measurement and targeted therapy is powerful and cost-effective. This congress provides a sample of nuclear medicine's contribution to the world.

Humans↗
PubMed1998

The use of intravital microscopy in surgical research. 26-years of experience analyzed by studies presented at the Surgical Forum of the Annual Congress of the German Society of Surgery.

Recent developments in intravital microscopy make this technique an attractive approach to studying microvascular, cellular, and molecular mechanisms of distinct surgical diseases. We investigated the value of this technique in surgical research laboratories by analyzing the studies presented during the past 26 years (1972-1997) at the Surgical Forum of the Annual Congress of the German Society of Surgery. From a total of 2279 papers 188 contributions (8.3%) presented data which derived from the analysis of the microcirculation using techniques, such as H2 and 133Xe clearance, autoradiography, thermodiffusion, laser Doppler fluxmetry, laser speckle, radioactive and fluorescent microspheres, polarographic oximetry, and intravital microscopy. There were 72 presentations (3.2% of all contributions) reporting the use of intravital microscopy, thus reflecting 38.3% of all microcirculatory analyses. Although these numbers may be considered quite small, analysis over time revealed a significant (P<0.05) increase in the number of microcirculatory studies (11.4%) and in particular of those using intravital microscopy (6.3%) in the 1990s when compared to the 1970s (5.3%; 0.1%) and 80th (7.1 %; 1.3%). In 1997, 27 of 165 contributions (16.4%) included microcirculatory analyses, and 18 of the 165 contributions (10.9%) reported results analyzed by intravital microscopy. Thus our analysis reflects an increasing interest of surgical researchers to study in vivo the microcirculation, and by doing so to use intravital microscopy for the elucidation of mechanisms of surgical disease.

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PubMed1991

Report on the computer software contest at 38th Congress of the Japan Society of Anesthesiology.

We held a computer software contest at 38th Congress of the JSA, held in March, 1991. The aim is to encourage the members of the Society to write softwares and to help distribute them, especially as Freewares. We received 25 entries for the contest; two-thirds of these are for computers of NEC PC9801 series and a third are for Macintosh. We received donations 3 million yen worth of instruments and goods for prizes plus some cash, which as prizes were distributed to those who made entries for the contest. Most of these programs have been registered as freewares at various computer networks, including our Ether-Net, one of the common computer network SIGBBS's among Japanese anesthesiologists.

Journal Article↗
PubMed2003

Current topics of S-1 at the 74th Japanese Gastric Cancer Congress.

S-1 (TS-1)-related studies presented at the 74th Japanese Gastric Cancer Congress are reviewed. Of the papers presented at this conference, 35 were related to S-1. In the panel discussion on the therapeutic significance of oral fluoropyrimidines in gastric cancer, 9 papers were related to S-1 (sensitivities to oral fluoropyrimidines, 2 papers; clinical results of treatment with S-1, 5 papers; and combination therapy with S-1, 2 papers). In the general presentations, there were 26 papers on S-1 related-subjects (clinical studies or clinical practice of S-1, 12 papers; case reports, 3 papers; basic studies on animal models of peritoneal metastasis, 2 papers; and combination therapy with S-1, 9 papers). Several studies showed that S-1 was basically as effective against tumors in postmarketing surveillance in clinical practice as in phase II studies at the time of its development, including a report of a patient with complete response to S-1. Some reports suggested the possibility of using S-1 in neoadjuvant chemotherapy and postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. The usefulness of S-1 in combination chemotherapy was also suggested in several reports. These results indicate that S-1 is a key drug that can be used in first-line treatment of gastric cancer. It will be necessary to accumulate evidence based on data from clinical trials and clinical applications in the future.

Administration, Oral↗