News briefs from the journal CHEST, April 2005
..., meals and refreshments, and travel honoraria for speakers from other institutions. An educational program that includes equipment training can greatly reduce repair costs. The study appears in the April issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians. Treating GERD Ma...ARVO annual meeting features over 6,000 presentations
... the ARVO 2005 Annual Meeting will feature keynote speakers Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, Director of the National Institutes of Health, and Dr. Peter Agre, Nobel Laureate. Over 100 vision-related companies will be exhibiting at the event, many demonstrating state-of-the-art technology. The Annual Meeting will incl...Child magazine editor addresses region's first annual women's and children's health care conference
...ditor at Child magazine, will be among the keynote speakers this Thursday, April 21st at the First Annual Wom...irculation of more than one million readers. Other speakers at the conference include: Dr. Lolita McDavid, Medical Director of Child Advocacy and Protection at ...Lessons to be learnt from life at the very limit
... something about every day healthcare. Conference speakers include some of the leading authorities in the world of high altitude physiology and critical care including Everest summiteer Dr Sundeep Dhillon, intensive care consultant and mountaineer Dr Hugh Montgomery and Nick Lane, author of the book 'Oxygen:...Patients with pituitary gland tumors are often misdiagnosed
...isease. The Association aims to include physician speakers ranging from endocrinologists, to neurosurgeons, to ear, nose and throat specialists and bridge institutional alliances. The next meeting will take place at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, May 3 at The Neurologic & Orthopedic Institute of Chicago, 4501 N. Winc...Watching metals melt, nanometer-scale views inside cells
... At two plenary and awards sessions, distinguished speakers willpresent talks on cutting-edge optics topics. On Monday, May 23 at6:30 p.m., Arpad Bergh of the Optoelectronics Industry DevelopmentAssociation will discuss the convergence of traditional industrysegments --communications, computers and consumer ...Connecting to cure spinal cord injury
...icipate in question-and-answer sessions with guest speakers and experts throughout the day. To register online, visit www.med.umich.edu/pmr/modelsci/springconference.htm . Cost is $75 for physicians, $60 for professionals, $25 for families and $10 for others. Conference materials, continental breakfast, bo...Arabic translation of doctoral thesis on Yemeni health workers
...lso accessible for health workers and other Arabic speakers who are interested in women and development....OHSU study says national injury prevention program working
...ide. Such successes may be attributable to dynamic speakers like those in ThinkFirst Oregon's VIP program. "Re...rns agreed, adding, "It's a matter of getting good speakers who relate to the audience."...ARVO Foundation and Alcon announce significant gift
...n as the ARVO/Alcon Keynote Session. Past keynote speakers at the Annual Meeting, which attracts over 9,500 researchers, have included leading vision scientists from around the world including a Nobel Prize winner. The first ARVO/Alcon Early Career Clinician-Scientist Research Awards will be presented at the...Protecting Europe from epidemics: official inauguration of ECDC on 27 May
...e Swedish Public Health Minister will be among the speakers at the ceremony, which will be held at the prestigious Nobel Forum of the Karolinska Institutet starting at 10:00. A press conference will take place immediately after the ceremony at 11:30. Journalists wishing to attend the press conference should ...Psychosocial aspects of genetic testing for hereditary cancers meeting at Jefferson June 9-10
...College of Thomas Jefferson University. Among the speakers and topics: Judy Garber, M.D., director of the Cancer Risk and Prevention Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, will discuss counseling issues in hereditary cancer predisposition. Radiation oncologist Marisa Weiss, M.D., founder and di...ACPM to host web-based conference on adolescent binge drinking
...ks associated with this type of substance use. The speakers will explain the biological substrates that make adolescents uniquely susceptible to alcohol and how underage binge drinking can occur independent of alcohol addiction. Participants of this conference will learn how to ask adolescents about their alc...Medication orlistat appears helpful in improving weight management for obese adolescents
... has received honoraria from Hoffmann-La Roche for speakers presentations. No other authors reported financial disclosures. Editorial: Pharmacotherapy for Adolescent Obesity - A Weighty Issue In an accompanying editorial, Alain Joffe, M.D., M.P.H., from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, writes "Until pub...Investigating 'brain shrinkage' in alcoholics
..." when compared to nonalcoholic brains. Symposium speakers at the October 2004 Congress for the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism in Mannheim, Germany reviewed what is known about the causes, consequences and clinical implications of alcohol-related brain shrinkage. Proceedings are...4D proton therapy, radiation-resistant tumors, interpreting medical images
...d ways to avoid them. She is the first of several speakers on this topic at session WE-E-I-609 (Wednesday, 3:30-5:00 PM), which is designed to highlight the importance of medical image perception research to a community of researchers that may not be that familiar with the topic or know why it is important. ...New proton therapy, breast CT clinical trials, radiation-resistant tumors
...paredness for radiological emergencies. Then, four speakers who represent some of the world's top experts in medical physics will present scientific topics that contain some of the most newsworthy results at the meeting: I . BREAST CT CLINICAL TRIALS Speaker: John Boone, University of California, Davis, jm...Alcohol abuse: Early diagnosis is key to treatment success
...legal and/or social consequences occur. Symposium speakers at the October 2004 Congress for the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism in Mannheim, Germany discussed emerging approaches to early detection of alcohol abuse and/or dependence. Proceedings are published in the July issue of......al backgrounds. The researchers conversed with the speakers on informal topics for about an hour and recorded the conversations. Tagliamonte found that as children age, their patterns of speech change. When girls reach adolescence, the words like and just pop into their conversations more frequently than boys...